A disaster is a failure of resilience to an event. Mitigating the risks that a hazard will progress into a destructive event, or increasing the resilience of a society-at-risk, requires careful analysis, planning, and execution. The Disaster Logic Model (DLM) is used to define the value (effects, costs, and outcome(s)), impacts, and benefits of interventions directed at risk reduction. A Risk-R...

This article explores cross-cultural challenges that arise when university and community members collaborate in community-based participatory research. As part of a project for primary prevention of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection, researchers trained community leaders to jointly develop a research question and conduct a pilot qualitative study in a Puerto Rican community in Massac...

BACKGROUND Research capacity building and its impact on policy and international research partnership is increasingly seen as important. High income and low- and middle-income countries frequently engage in research collaborations. These can have a positive impact on research capacity building, provided such partnerships are long-term collaborations with a unified aim, but they can also have ch...

Introduction Evaluation capacity building (ECB) is a topic of great interest to many organizations as they face increasing demands for accountability and evidence-based practices. ECB is about building the knowledge, skills, and attitudes of organizational members, the sustainability of rigorous evaluative practices, and providing the resources and motivations to engage in ongoing evaluative wo...

Only radically lower cost service delivery models can close the growing “broadband gap that characterizes much of the developing world. Inveneo’s Haiti Rural Broadband Initiative seeks to demonstrate one such model by combining low-cost wireless technologies, shared infrastructure and local IT capacity building to extend broadband to 22 un-served population centers in Haiti. While progress is p...

scientific progress and development is one of the significant issues and hot debates of the iranian government. there are some researches and seminars carried out and held regarding influential factors of scientific progress. unfortunately there is no proper place for legal and institutional factors but exceptionally and partially (intellectual property rights factor). my idea is that scientifi...