Your search
Results 49 resources
-
Why local ownership and commitment are the exception in most development efforts—and what development professionals can do about this problem.
-
Over the last decade, the field of so-called Agile software development has grown to be a major force in the socio-economic arena of delivering quality software on time, on budget, and on spec. The acceleration in changing needs brought on by the rise in popularity of the Internet has helped push Agile practices far beyond their original boundaries, and possibly into domains where their application is not the optimal solution to the problems at hand. The question of where Agile software...
-
"In this book, the researchers take a system's view that begins with a demand for deep, evidence-based understanding of design thinking phenomena. They continue with an exploration of tools which can help improve the adaptive expertise needed for design thinking. The final part of the book concerns design thinking in information technology and its relevance for business process modeling and agile software development, i.e. real world creation and deployment of products, services, and enterprise systems"--Cover
-
In my brief experience with monitoring and evaluation, I have become convinced that it is critically important both as an international development project component and as a field of academic study. Throughout my academic career at Cornell University, I have, at times, argued that monitoring and evaluation has actually impeded development efforts, but here I wish to amend my opinion. Bad monitoring and evaluation can sabotage development projects and our meaningful interpretation of...
-
Management of threatened and endangered species would seem to be a perfect context for adaptive management. Many of the decisions are recurrent and plagued by uncertainty, exactly the conditions that warrant an adaptive approach. But although the potential of adaptive management in these settings has been extolled, there are limited applications in practice. The impediments to practical implementation are manifold and include semantic confusion, institutional inertia, misperceptions about...
-
This document is made up of a range of Evaluation Working Papers (EWP) focused on evaluation for equitable development. Put together by evaluation specialists they present strategic evaluation findings, lessons learned and innovative approaches and methodologies. Part 1:Evaluation and equity Evaluation to accelerate progress towards equity, social justice and human rights 2 Human rights and gender equality in evaluation 13 When human rights is the starting point for evaluation...
-
This working paper is a methodological contribution to the emerging debate on monitoring and evaluation (M&E) in the context of climate change adaptationand disaster risk reduction. Effectively managing disaster risk is critical for adapting to the impacts of climate change, however disasters risk reduction M&E practice may be limited in capturing progress towards adaptation. The unique nature of adaptation to climate change calls for experience-based learning M&E processes for discovering...
-
Adaptive management, an approach for simultaneously managing and learning about natural resources, has been around for several decades. Interest in adaptive decision making has grown steadily over that time, and by now many in natural resources conservation claim that adaptive management is the approach they use in meeting their resource management responsibilities. Yet there remains considerable ambiguity about what adaptive management actually is, and how it is to be implemented by...
Explore
Theme
- Adaptive Approaches [+] (23)
- Cases (1)
-
Development Actors Perspectives
(2)
- FCDO/DFID (UK) (1)
- NGO Perspectives (1)
-
Geography
(3)
- Americas (1)
-
Asia
(1)
-
Eastern Asia
(1)
- China (1)
-
Eastern Asia
(1)
-
Europe
(1)
-
Western Europe
(1)
- Germany (1)
-
Western Europe
(1)
-
MEL4 Adaptive Management
(13)
- Beneficiary Assessment/Engagement (1)
- Case Study (1)
- Critical Systems Heuristics (1)
- Developmental Evaluation (1)
- Innovation System Analysis (1)
- Logical Framework (2)
- Mapping Visualization Methods (1)
- MEL in International Development (1)
- Participatory Evaluation (1)
- Participatory Learning and Action - PLA (1)
- Success Case Method (1)
- Theory-based evaluations (1)
- TOC (Theory of Change) (3)
- Utilisation focused evaluation (1)
- Networks and Communities of Practice (2)
-
Practical
(1)
- Tools (1)
- Sectors [+] (12)
Resource type
- Blog Post (1)
- Book (8)
- Book Section (2)
- Conference Paper (4)
- Journal Article (16)
- Magazine Article (2)
- Report (15)
- Web Page (1)