Impact evaluation of the projects promoted by the Fund to contrast educational poverty of minors
In 2018, ARCO's Monitoring, Evaluation and Impact Evaluation has been chosen as external evaluator in 5 projects promoted by the Fund to contrast educational poverty of minors, managed by the social business Con i Bambini. Involved in 6 regional and national projects, Reserachers have developed and implemented, for esach, specific impact evaluation plans. An experience [...]
Social Board Model: from users to facilitators through Emancipatory Research
In October 2020, a small group of beneficiaries of REI, Inclusion's Income, has been involved by the Inclusive Development Unit in an Emancipatory Research process. The research group is made of women, who use Prato's Social Services. The objective of this process is threefold: first, it will allow users to share their experience about the [...]
Community Health Insurance, fostering access to health care in low and middle income countries
Community health insurance (CHI) aims to provide financial protection and facilitate health care access among poor rural populations. However, the full development of this scheme is hampered by multiple operational challenges. There is a need to undertake systematic feasibility studies, which are present in the literature, but they usually do not provide a comprehensive analysis [...]
SDGs localization: opportunities and challenges in the post Covid19 scenario in Italy
For the 75th anniversary of the United Nations General Assembly, the third U20 in Riyadh and on the eve of the Decade for Action, the ten years that separate us from the goal of the 2030 Agenda, we are facing numerous challenges, but also numerous opportunities. The Covid 19 emergency had serious consequences from an [...]
R&I policy for sustainable development, a road map for policymakers
Research and Innovation policy plays a pivotal role for the pursuit of and the transition towards sustainable development in economic, social and environmental terms.Within the global debate on sustainable development, a new framing on R&I for transformative change has been gaining momentum. To understand to what extent and how R&I policy in the post- COVID [...]
EU R&I Days: Research and Innovation for transition to sustainability
On September 24th Mario Biggeri, Scientific Director of ARCO, participated as a panelist to the open session “Towards a Champions League for Transition to Sustainability” organized by the DG for Research & Innovation of the European Commission for the 2020 European Research and Innovation Days. In 2019, R&I Days session on “Re-defining prosperity’’ took stock [...]
Prato Circular City: circular transition towards Circular Economy
Prato Circular City wants to contribute to the transition towards the city's Circular Economy. Within the urban system, that is the interconnection of the inhabited area, the commercial and industrial area, the agricultural area, policies can be implemented and experiments can be initiated that facilitate the transition from linear to circular activities and behaviors. The [...]
Rethinking participatory research in the pandemic era, webinar for HDCA Annual Conference
The Coronavirus pandemic has affected the lives and livelihoods across the world and disrupted the ways in which we experience our capabilities everyday. In these times of the pandemic, researchers and practitioners who are using participatory approaches, have had serious implications for the quality and the validity of the participatory inquiries and outcomes of our [...]