Breaching the Borders between Research and Practice: Development NGOs and Qualitative Data

Abstract

The challenge of dealing with qualitative data is becoming ever more important for development organisations, as they strive to reflect critically on both their own practice and the work of others. They are under growing pressure to account for their actions to donors, to demonstrate their impact and to provide evidence as the basis for their policy decisions. This pressure arises from donors, states, the media and from the communities among whom they work.

Citation

Bakewell, O. (2007), "Breaching the Borders between Research and Practice: Development NGOs and Qualitative Data", Smith, M. (Ed.) Negotiating Boundaries and Borders (Studies in Qualitative Methodology, Vol. 8), Emerald Group Publishing Limited, Leeds, pp. 217-238. https://doi.org/10.1016/S1042-3192(06)08011-6