Making systematic reviews workfor international development research

Publication language
English
Pages
4pp
Date published
01 Jan 2012
Type
Tools, guidelines and methodologies
Keywords
Evaluation-related, Research methodology
Organisations
ODI

Key messages
¦ Using systematic review principles can help researchers improve the rigour and breadth of literature reviews
¦ Conducting a full systematic review is a resource intensive process and involves a number of practical challenges
¦ Systematic reviews should be viewed as a means to finding a robust and sensible answer to a focused research question