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American University in Cairo
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About: American University in Cairo is a education organization based out in Cairo, Egypt. It is known for research contribution in the topics: Population & Context (language use). The organization has 2472 authors who have published 5339 publications receiving 73741 citations.
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TL;DR: This paper explored the role that funders play in shaping performance measurement, or monitoring, practices within NGOs serving disadvantaged children in developing countries, and found that the barriers to use of performance data and learning may be addressed.
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There are many obstacles to promoting learning as an outcome of performance measurement in non-governmental organizations (NGO) social service providers, especially in less developed countries. Building upon a conceptualization of accountability as a multifaceted set of relationships through which funders, or principals, and non-profit providers, or agents, jointly shape organizational learning, and performance, this study expands our understanding of how accountability mechanisms affect learning within service providers. This paper explores the role that funders play in shaping performance measurement, or monitoring, practices within NGOs serving disadvantaged children in developing countries. We examined the experience of service providers in Egypt and Colombia to assess how the barriers to use of performance data and learning may be addressed. We conducted interviews using the same protocols with program managers in six non-profit providers in each country that provide services to children, and we also interviewed major donors in the arena of children's services in the USA. We probed the NGO managers' experiences with performance measurement to identify obstacles and potential solutions to improve the use of the data to promote learning. Our findings support previous research about the potential for upward accountability mechanisms to influence internal learning. We suggest that funders should be held accountable for how the incentives and disincentives they provide to grantees affect their internal learning about how to improve their services. This notion of ‘reverse accountability’ means that funders need to be strategic and intentional when they design reporting mechanisms that affect the learning behaviours within their grantees. In line with our call for reverse accountability, we offer a model demonstrating our notion of the two-way flow of accountability and we offer recommendations to help improve the performance reporting environment for NGOs who are addressing complex problems with less than adequate capacity. Copyright © 2012 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
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TL;DR: In this article, a generic optimization procedure for architects that aids in generation and finding of curvilinear and mesh ceiling forms is presented, where the objective is to maximize daylight uniformity ratios.
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TL;DR: In this paper, a new class of multivariate volatility models which are easy to estimate using covariance targeting, even with rich dynamics, called rotated ARCH (RARCH) models are introduced.
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TL;DR: In this paper, a carbon-based hybrid supercapacitor was constructed with carbon derived from biomass and carbon derived EDTA salt, and the assembled device exhibits a specific capacitance 265 F/g at 5mV/s and 221 F /g at 1 A/g with a high capability rate.
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Name | H-index | Papers | Citations |
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Michael Kagan | 108 | 614 | 53113 |
Elsayed Z. Soliman | 70 | 620 | 27277 |
Chang-jun Liu | 63 | 243 | 13035 |
Moustafa Youssef | 61 | 299 | 15541 |
A. Hamed | 61 | 270 | 12565 |
Michael G. Kontominas | 56 | 207 | 9896 |
Ahmed Ibrahim | 50 | 567 | 13445 |
Ahmed A. Moustafa | 48 | 380 | 9691 |
Kenneth S. W. Sing | 43 | 139 | 49657 |
Mahmoud A.O. Dawood | 42 | 241 | 5353 |
Nageh K. Allam | 41 | 273 | 6747 |
Mohammad Ali Taher | 40 | 257 | 5876 |
Omar A. El Seoud | 38 | 216 | 5523 |
Mohamed A. Farag | 37 | 85 | 6618 |
Mohamed Hilmy Elnagdi | 36 | 499 | 6118 |