"Ce guide presente un modele d'auto-evaluation organisationnelle innovateur et opportunement eprouve. Les instruments et les conseils proposés dans Ameliorer la performance organisationnelle depassent amplement la mesure de l'incidence des programmes et de la production des biens et services. Ils i
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ntegrent les techniques de l'evaluation formative dans laquelle l'equipe d'evaluation prete tout son concours afin d'aider l'organisation a atteindre ses objectifs de maniere optimale. Ces instruments et ces methodes demeurent souples et le modele peut convenir aux organisations de tous les types et de toutes les tailles. Le guide inclut des feuilles d'exercices et les documents de travail actif. Ameliorer la performance organisationnelle s'averera utile pour toute organisation qui entame un processus d'auto-evaluation ou de planification strategique. Il ne manquera pas d'interesser les dirigeants et les personnels des institutions de recherche, les administrateurs des universites, les professionnels des organismes d'aide a la recherche et les universitaires et professionnels du developpement et de l'evaluation organisationnels." (Résumé)
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"Superseded by television as the primary source of entertainment and information, radio still has a unique place in the mass media spectrum. At once powerfully pervasive and totally invisible, it's a fascinating subject for study. On Air adopts a wide-ranging theoretical and critical approachto prov
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ide an in-depth examination of radio's codes (speech, music, noise, and silence), the conventions of using these codes, and the dominant modes of reception. The text offers a vocabulary and methodology for analyzing radio programs, drawing on work by both media theorists and professionalbroadcasters in Britain, Australia, and North America. Written by an academic and a practitioner, On Air provides a critical overview of radio for media students, as well as suggestions for practical activities, a time-line of major events in the history of radio, and a glossary of key terms." (Publisher description)
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"The book describes the objectives of sustainable people-centred development and the processes required to achieve it. It focuses on the five factors which according to the author determine effectiveness: suitable organizational design; competent leadership and human resources; appropriate external
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relationships; mobilisation of high quality finance; and the measurement of performance coupled to 'learning for leverage'. In each area the book explains the capacities needed and how they can be assessed and improved. The advantage of this publication is that it offers the overall context in which assessment and evaluation form an important part. It is less of a practical guide than a substantial collection of insights and ideas to improve NGO performance." (Catalogue Intermediate Technology Publications 2000)
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"The book reviews the types of social organisation with which NGOs might consider working, and the provision of training in a variety of skills and activities, for the people involved and for their organisation. The particular importance of using a capacity-building approach in emergency situations
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is emphasized." (Catalogue Oxfam 2000)
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"The report and papers of a two-week seminar organized by the Daughters of St. Paul which brought together representatives of 17 Catholic publishing houses from 13 African countries. The proceedings of the meeting focused on the role of the Catholic Church in publishing in Africa, but there are also
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chapters on the oral and reading traditions in Africa, the book industry in Africa, book marketing, NGO publishing, professionalism in publishing, and some perspectives on religious publishing. The seminar also led to the establishment of the Association of Catholic Publishers in Africa." (Hans M. Zell, Publishing, Books & Reading in Sub-Saharan Africa, 3d ed. 2008, nr. 1723)
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"Participatory Impact Monitoring is a concept for guiding self-help projects in development co-operation. The actors involved carry out the monitoring themselves. Because PIM assumes that these actors are autonomous, it has several strands or "strings" - the monitoring systems of the self-help group
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s and the organisations are separate. The strings are periodically compared: the actors reflect on their observations and assessments, adapt their planning accordingly and deepen their dialogue with one another." (Gate 4/98)
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