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Praxis Note 4. How Should Impact Be Assessed Cross-Culturally?

The assessment of impact involves a number of stakeholders often working within different cultural assumptions, in different power relations to each other. Assessing impact must be considered from a cross-cultural perspective.

Author:

Terence Jackson

Praxis Note 3. How Can Knowledge Transferability Be Managed Across Cultures?

This Praxis Note addresses the important issues of transferring knowledge and best practice in the cross-cultural context within which all development NGOs work.

Author:

Terence Jackson

Praxis Note 2. How Can Capacity Be Built Through Cross-Cultural Management?

This Praxis Note focuses on the processes and practices of capacity building, drawing on results from the project Management and Change in Africa: A Cross-cultural Perspective, funded by Danida and the Paris Chamber of Commerce.

Author:

Terence Jackson

ONTRAC 24. NGOs as part of Civil Society in Central Asia

Authors:

Asiya Sasykbaeva, Chinara Tashbaeva, Simon Forrester, Guljahon Mavlani, Anara Musabaeva, Charlie Buxton, Inessa Frantz, Simon Heap

Praxis Note 1. Why is a Cross-Cultural Approach Necessary?

This Praxis Note outlines the crosscultural management imperative and the importance of the project Management and Change in Africa to developing management and organisational capacity in non-governmental development organisations in Africa and beyond.

Author:

Terence Jackson

ONTRAC 23. Rights or Values?

Authors:

Brian Pratt, John Beauclerk, Jerry Adams, Rob Williams, Barbara Brubacher, Octavio de la Varga Mas, Ele Fisher, Alberto Acre