Resultados de búsqueda - "learning"

Educator incentives and educational triage in rural primary schools por Gilligan, Daniel O., Karachiwalla, Naureen, Kasirye, Ibrahim, Lucas, Adrienne M., Neal, Derek

“…We report the results of an experiment in rural Uganda that sought to both promote learning and reduce dropout rates. We offered bonus payments to grade six (P6) teachers that rewarded each teacher for the math performance of each of her students relative to comparable students in other schools. …”
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Socio-Technical Innovation Bundles for Enhancing Women’s Resilience and Empowerment: A Case Study of Utthan’s Interventions in Bhavnagar District, Gujarat por Bhatt, Ritu, Das, Bhavana, Rajpal, Pallavi Sobti, Ghosh, Anweshaa, Zaidi, Mubashira, Mukhopadhyay, Prama, Chadha, Deepali, Puskur, Ranjitha

“…Utthan views women as knowledge holders, agents of change, emphasizing on community engagement, adaptive learning, and peer support. Its lead farmer-to-farmer approach enhances knowledge transfer, fostering sustainability. …”
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Presentations for Deepening Social Protection Systems: Enhancing livelihoods and health in Ethiopia por Alderman, Harold, Gilligan, Daniel O., Hidrobo, Melissa, Leight, Jessica, Mulford, Michael, Tambet, Heleene, Mamo, Tigist

“…This policy seminar builds on the SPIR II Learning Event conducted in Addis Ababa in 2023.…”
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The effects of SPIR Interventions on nutrition and childcare: Evidence from the SPIR midline survey por Alderman, Harold, Gilligan, Daniel O., Hidrobo, Melissa, Leight, Jessica, Tambet, Heleene

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Stories of change in nutrition from Africa and Asia: An introduction to a special series in food security por Gillespie, Stuart, Harris, Jody, Nisbett, Nicholas, van den Bold, Mara

“…This new climate of learning from experience and evidence led to the launch in 2015 of the Stories of Change initiative. …”
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Agriculture support services in Malawi: Direct effects, complementarities, and time dynamics por Ambler, Kate, de Brauw, Alan, Godlonton, Susan

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Social networking amid social differentiation in the adoption of improved technologies: A case study in Rajasthan, India por Varshney, Deepak, Joshi, Pramod Kumar, Roy, Devesh

“…The paper follows the model of social learning in Bandiera and Rasul (2006) extended by introducing the individual level covariates of network members. …”
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Changing preferences through experimental games: Evidence from sanitation and hygiene in Tamil Nadu por Stopnitzky, Yaniv

“…This study tests whether an experiential learning exercise structured around an experimental game can be used to shift preferences around sanitation and hygiene. …”
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Chinese investment in Ghana’s manufacturing sector por Tang, Xiaoyang

“…Chinese firms source simple raw materials from local suppliers but import industrial supplies from abroad. Learning from Chinese business models, a few local businessmen have started their own manufacturing projects, mostly in the plastics recycling sector, but a lack of capital appears to keep some local players from moving up the value chain. …”
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Women's Empowerment in Agricultural Governance (WEAGov) technical workshop: India pilot study por Ragasa, Catherine, Kyle, Jordan, Yasmin, Sabina, Pande, Harshita, Basu, Sampurna, Sharma, Aanshi

“…It does this by bundling innovations for women’s empowerment, leveraging social protection to increase women’s access to and control over resources, and promoting inclusive governance and policies for increased resilience. HER+ will generate learning and evidence on levers and entry points to disrupt the foundations of inequality in agrifood systems (AFS).…”
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Agriculture and household nutrition security: Development practice and research needs por McDermott, John, Aït-Aïssa, Myriam, Morel, Julien, Rapando, Nancy

“…Four next steps are summarized: (1) align agricultural interventions with those in health services, water and sanitation and social protection; (2) implement approaches to accelerate learning for development implementation and policy and investment enabling; (3) build local and national capacity to adapt and innovate; and (4) empower women and disadvantaged communities, in which the burden and solutions to nutrition security are found.…”
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Results-based monitoring and evaluation for organizations working in agricultural development: a guide for practitioners por Gebremedhin, Berhanu, Getachew, A., Amha, R.

“…Staff of the agricultural research and higher learning institutes may also find the guide useful. …”
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Chapter 7. Growing cities, changing demands: Scope of urban agriculture as a sustainable agricultural intensification strategy in India por Aravindakshan, Sreejith, Hage Aku, Michi Tani

“…The widespread health concerns over chemical-intensive agriculture and recent disruptions of pandemic-induced agricultural supply chains alongside impaired public food distribution systems in urban and peri-urban areas of developing countries have all provided opportunities for the proliferation of urban agriculture (UA) in cities. Urban dwellers are learning to adapt, improvise, and adopt new ways of cultivating vegetables and fruits for home consumption. …”
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Livestock knowledge sharing contests in eight core villages of SAPLING por Lo, Quang Thanh, Nguyen, Thi Thinh, Pham, Thi Le

“…Over the past two years, the eight farmer groups have significantly benefited from the project’s support, including gaining better access to technical assistance, identifying quality input suppliers, visiting and learning from successful value chain models, and establishing market connections. …”
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Innovación en el cultivo del maní en Bolivia: Efectos de la interacción social y de las capacidades de absorción de los pequeños productores por Hartwich, Frank, Arispe, Tito, Monge, Mario

“…[The] results guide to the conclusion that to achieve a larger and better participation of small peanut farmers in innovation processes, it is necessary to (1) adapt innovation sets to farmers absorptive capabilities; (2) try to improve the individual absorptive capabilities through financing schemes, training and sensibilization efforts; (3) promote and substantially intensify interactions among innovation providers and farmers, in a way that collective absorptive capabilities and a common learning on technology's applications and applicability can be developed; and (4) include other actors from the transportation, processing and exportation sectors in partnership arrangements, in order to improve their common understanding of production, quality and market opportunities, as well as to open and widen access to markets and to complementary financial support.…”
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Try before you buy: Experimental evidence on willingness to pay for tailored extension advice in Nigeria por Oyakhilomen Oyinbo, Chamberlin, Jordan, Maertens, Miet

“…Results show that two years of exposure to experimentation and learning through DST interventions significantly increase farmers’ WTP for tailored advice, in particular for soil fertility management and market information. …”
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Classification of plant growth‐promoting bacteria inoculation status and prediction of growth‐related traits in tropical maize using hyperspectral image and genomic data por Yassue, Rafael Massahiro, Galli, Giovanni, Fritsche-Neto, Roberto, Morota, Gota

“…The best models for hyperspectral prediction were partial least squares and automated machine learning. The Bayesian ridge regression and BayesB were the best performers for genomic prediction. …”
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Small farmers’ preferences for weather index insurance: insights from Kenya por Sibiko, Kenneth W., Veettil, Prakashan C., Qaim, Matin

“…Farmer groups can also be important platforms for learning about complex innovations, including novel risk transfer products. …”
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Integrating surface water games into community water management toolkits: A reflection from practitioners in Odisha, India por Melesse, Mequanint B., Duche, Vishwambhar, Guvvalavenkata, Anupama, Kumar, Dron, Sanil, Richu, Falk, Thomas, Meinzen-Dick, Ruth S.

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Field Trip Report: Loita exchange visit and training at Drylands Natural Resources Centre (DNRC), Makueni por Bedelian, Claire, Notenbaert, An Maria Omer

“…The group comprised of farmers actively engaged in crop farming as well as those interested in learning new approaches to their crop and livestock production. …”
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