Einar Braathen is CROP Programme Officer. India The papers focussed on how a best practice in relation to a certain kind of poverty reduction can be described and analysed, and how the context in which the best practice functions has an impact on the development of such a practice. The workshop was held under the patronage of Her Royal Highness Princess Basma Bint Talal of Jordan . A publication based on papers and exchanges during the workshop is under preparation. A Guide to the Identification, Understanding and Transfer of Good Practice .
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New members have joined, the Programme Committees have an abundance of abstracts to chose from when organising the programme for their workshops, the research projects progress through series of workshops in different regions which increase their comparative value, several publications are in the pipeline, the expertise embedded in CROPnet is sought after by international and national organisations, and partial core financing has been secured , writes the Chair of CROP in the CROP Annual Report 1999. You can read the full report by following this link . Please write to the CROP Secretariat if you want a hardcopy of the report. All research results need second opinions . That is particularly true for poverty research where strong external actors and vested interests dominate the field.