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Interviewing Key Informants: Strategic Planning for a Global Public Health Management Program
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Kun, Karen E.; Kassim, Anisa; Howze, Elizabeth; MacDonald, Goldie – Qualitative Report, 2013
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Sustainable Management Development Program (SMDP) partners with low- and middle-resource countries to develop management capacity so that effective global public health programs can be implemented and better health outcomes can be achieved. The program's impact however, was variable. Hence, there…
Descriptors: Public Health, Health Programs, International Programs, Developing Nations
Evaluation of Follow-Up Effects of the International Child Development Programme on Caregivers in Mozambique
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Skar, Ane-Marthe Solheim; Sherr, Lorraine; Clucas, Claudine; von Tetzchner, Stephen – Infants and Young Children, 2014
Parenting programs have been used to good effect in many settings, yet few are systematically introduced and evaluated in developing countries. This study explores the relative long-term effect of participation in the International Child Development Programme (ICDP) in a group of caregivers in Mozambique. A quasi-experimental design was used to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, International Programs, Child Development, Caregivers
The Challange of Cross-Cultural Evaluation: Some Views from the Field.
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Merryfield, Merry M. – New Directions for Program Evaluation, 1985
Interviews with 26 experienced international evaluators are reported to identify problems and possible solutions in cross cultural evaluations (evaluations of programs or projects in developing countries by persons from the industrialized West). It is concluded that understanding cultural norms and values increases an evaluator's ability to…
Descriptors: Cultural Differences, Developing Nations, Ethnocentrism, Evaluation Methods
The Transfer of Research Information within and by Multicultural Teams.
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Day, Donald; And Others – Information Processing & Management, 1995
This study reports on communications and other interactions within culturally diverse research teams. Discussion includes the processes used to develop, exchange, and disseminate data and information and the factors affecting the quality and outcome of such processes. Key concepts in technology transfer are introduced, and assumptions regarding…
Descriptors: Communication (Thought Transfer), Cultural Differences, Developing Nations, Improvement
Radio for Formal Education and for Development Communication.
Development Communication Report, 1978
The keynote article in this issue describes some empirically demonstrated beneficial functions of radio in development communications: (1) it improves the quality and relevance of education; (2) it keeps educational costs down; (3) it broadens access to education; and (4) it extends the impact of time, money, and effort outside the formal…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Communications Satellites, Cost Effectiveness, Developing Nations
Partnership in Development: Canadian Universities and World Food. Background Study 45.
Tossell, William E. – 1980
As part of the Science Council of Canada's investigation of Canada's scientific and technical contribution to world food supply, a background study was conducted on the role of the Canadian university sector. The objectives were threefold: to determine the extent and nature of the involvement of Canadian universities during the past ten years in…
Descriptors: Agricultural Education, Developing Nations, Food, Foreign Countries