Debiasing: A Systematic Discipline and Delight for Development Professionals

December 2018

We need a systematic, timely and cost-effective approach offsetting the biases and for finding and exploring the seas between the islands.

This blog offers some thoughts on how we can address the biases of rural development tourism, and offers some guidelines for discovering the unexpected. Robert Chambers challenges development professionals to ring-fence a whole day per trip for debiasing and share their learning.

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PublisherInstitute of Development Studies
ThemesLeave no one behind, Monitoring, evaluation and learning
LanguageEnglish

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