What’s wrong with old wine in new bottles? Using rigorous qualitative research to “do development differently” with SPRING

SPRING Accelerator draws to a close today, 30th September 2019. Hear from Technical Director Dr.Rebecca Calder on designing girl research and how qualitative research to do development differently shaped the programme.

“SPRING research spoke to what I see as the core tenant of the doing development differently agenda: working in partnership with local people to identify and better understand problems and potential solutions in order to enable greater local ownership, and ultimately more impactful and sustainable development. In fact, I would argue that SPRING’s success was largely shaped by using qualitative research to do development differently.”