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When asserting the value of theory-based methods, you often here words like “black boxes” and “causal mechanisms.” These are commonly…
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In this final blog in the series, I want to look at the potential value of rubrics. While evaluability assessments can help us to…
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In my last blog on theory-based Monitoring Evaluation and Learning (MEL), I explained why relationships matter, and how to assess change…
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Effective partnership working is crucial to producing quality results, especially when working with complex problems such as the worst forms...
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Written by Toby Lowe and Shaheen Warren (Centre for Public Impact) and Sam Sharp (Overseas Development Institute), with input from Jamie…
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What can adaptive approaches from other sectors teach development practitioners about dealing with uncertainty?
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The term After Action Review (AAR) is becoming more common in the world of development evaluation, particularly in programmes that focus on evaluation as a formative learning process. As structured and facilitated learning moments, AARs take many shapes always built to support a specific team in a specific moment on their journey. Across such a diversity of practice how do we understand the evolution of the AAR as a method with an action research orientation? Being mindful always of the...
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A-ha! A moment etched in my memory: 20 or so researchers were...
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A recent conversation with a good governance programme in Myanmar tried to identify its underlying rules of thumb. Was that a good idea?
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For two months in the Spring of 2020, the Office of Local Sustainability’s Evidence and Learning Team invited staff from across USAID to join us in exploring how the Agency approaches its generation and use of evidence from the perspective of locally led development. Our seven-part Standards of Evidence for Locally Led Development series brought together eight expert presenters and more than 670 participants to engage in conversations ranging from scientific research to complexity-aware...
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Agile, lean startup and human-centred design can be an answer — if you’re asking the right questions
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Monitoring and Evaluation needs to be different to support the new generation of 'adaptive programmes' in aid. 4 M&E specialists in Tanzania explain how.
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A smart new report explores how a good idea - theories of change - is distorted by the way it is implemented in the aid sector
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How can we balance our need to respond to a crisis with our long-term goals for systemic change?
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Review of a new book that explores the 'secret sauce' of Coalitions for Change - an unusually successful governance programme in the Philippines
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Graham Teskey shares a great internal links round up and guide to 'political economy analysis'
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Adaptive management is increasingly on the ticket for development programming, and has been crucial in the wake of covid-19. I’ve been working with adaptive programmes for most of my career, …
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International Public Participation Models 1969 – 2020 provides an essential resource of 60 different models to better map public participation in practice and theory.
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Considerations on where and when sanctions fit into the conception of social accountability is a nudge toward better and more granular descriptions of what work is being undertaken effectively in which situations.
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