DW’s Research Unit guides programme decision-making and policy influencing while contributing to the growth and improvement of the organisation’s learning process. The unit also enhances accountability of the organisation to its partners through promoting good quality reporting.
Research findings and lessons from DW’s own project implementation demonstrate that community-based service delivery models provide more just and equitable access and distribution of resources. Lessons from DW’s practice and research provide the basis for advocacy and policy influencing to achieve the replication of pro-poor development programmes.
Development Workshop has been engaged in ongoing research in a number of areas. These include such key issues as community survival and coping mechanisms, land tenure (helped to found the Rede de Terra – Land Network), gender and livelihoods in the informal sector, community services access and peace and conflict risks. DW has acquired a strong capacity in rapid community appraisal techniques and is one of the first institutions in Angola to build a geographic information system (GIS) into their monitoring strategies. DW publishes its research findings through its Occasional Papers series and through its Internet site.
Post-Conflict Transformation in Angola’s Informal Economy 2007 – 2009
Housing Strategies for Luanda’s Expanding Periphery
Post-Socialist Land Rights 1996 – 2000
Women’s Enterprise Development Program 1991 – 1998
Community Publishing in Huambo 2000 – 2001
Urban Environmental Risk Assessment, IDRC, 1998 – 2000
Luanda Peri-Urban Household Gender Profile 2001 – 2002
Voices for Peace Project, IDRC, 2002 -2004
Scavenger Studies – 1997 & 2005
Mozambique Land, Housing & Decentralisation – 2008
