by Tara Polzer Ngwato | Methods and Field Notes
Social Surveys Director Dr Tara Polzer Ngwato, with Caitlin Blaser Mapitsa from Wits University, argues that evaluations must be ethical, and that the nature and meaning of ethics must be contextual. Writing in the American Journal of Evaluation, the authors note...
by Bev Russell | Civil Society, Philanthropy, Giving & Volunteering, Methods and Field Notes
As part of the global working group on measuring the contribution of volunteering to the Sustainable Development Goals, Bev Russell, Social Surveys Africa CEO, presented on the measurement of volunteering in the Global South at the Twelfth International Conference of...
by Tara Polzer Ngwato | Health, Methods and Field Notes, Youth & Employment
How do you evaluate the long-term impact of school-based HIV prevention interventions that target children before they are sexually active? Long term impact evaluations of school-based HIV programmes are rare due to several methodological challenges: The expense of...
by Sandile Zwane | Methods and Field Notes
In all large-scale studies, and many small or medium-scale studies, primary data is not collected by the researchers who design and analyse the research but by ‘field workers’. In conventional research publications and methodology text books, this crucial group of...
by Sandile Zwane | Community Tapestry, Events, Land & Housing, Methods and Field Notes, Poverty & Inequality
Bev Russell, Social Surveys CEO, presented a paper at the 9th Rural Development Policy Conference (24-25 May 2018, Durban, South Africa) entitled “Rethinking rural development planning: Mainstreaming economic development in rural communities through user-friendly...
