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Advice for Conducting Household Surveys
Planning to use household surveys as a data collection tool? The following suggestions relate to the processes of conducting household surveys, not the analysis of the data. I believe the process of surveying is not critically reflected upon as much as it should. Before developing your survey, conduct a series of interviews and focus group […]
Tags: #Data Verification #Household Surveys #Quality Control #Surveying #Surveying process
Selected Jobs (28 August 2015)
Internship (solar energy, Nepal) Volunteer (Kenya) Communications Advisor (Canada) Country Director (Yemen) Multiple technical posts (Jordan) Project Manager (Tanzania) Technical Writer, Governance (Consultant)
Revisiting Scott’s (1985) Weapons of the Weak
On ‘weapons of the weak’: “Here I have in mind the ordinary weapons of relatively powerless groups: foot dragging, dissimulation, false compliance, pilfering, feigned ignorance, slander, arson, sabotage and so forth. These Brechtian forms of class struggle have certain features in common. They require little or no coordination or planning; they often represent a form […]
Tags: #Capitalism #Creation of Custom #James C. Scott #Marxist Revolution #Weapons of the weak
Selected Jobs (20 Aug 2015)
Tons of consulting contracts and long-term posts (Global) Internships (Canada) Communications Program Manager (USA) Education Advisor (Canada) Gender and Development Specialist (Ethiopia) Education Program Manager (Syria) Research Consultant (Afghanistan) Conflict Analyst (Jordan)
NGO Lessons from Oshinsky’s (2005) Polio: An American Story
NGO lessons from Oshinsky’s (2005) Polio: An American Story. Not a summary or review, but some thought provoking quotes: Strategic planning and framing of the issue: “No disease drew as much attention, or struck the same terror, as polio. And for good reason. Polio hit without warning. There was no way of telling who would […]
Tags: #Innovation #institutional barriers #Leadership #Polio #Strategic Planning
Links I Liked (14 Aug 2015)
Tools / advice for your NGO / NGO work Situation Analysis of Children in Uganda Communicating Complex Ideas
About me
Logan Cochrane
Associate Professor at HBKU in the College of Public Policy. He is an Associate Fellow of the Ethiopian Academy of Sciences and an Adjunct Professor at Hawassa University (Institute for Policy and Development Research). Over the last fifteen years, he has worked in Afghanistan, Benin, Burundi, Canada, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Egypt, Ethiopia, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, South Sudan, Tanzania and Uganda. Logan acts as a consultant for governmental agencies and non-governmental organizations, seeking to create bridges between research and practice.
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