Your search
Results 98 resources
-
Smart Rules provide the operating framework for the Department for International Development’s (DFID’s) programmes.
-
Seeking to accelerate development, the agencies and individuals involved have regularly advanced new ideas of how external support can function better, deliver more, and achieve greater impact. There has been a particular flourishing of new ideas within the broad field of governance and public-sector reforms in the 2000s. This chapter starts off with a review of the “landscape of new ideas,” focusing on five proposed approaches in particular: political economy analysis (PEA), Problem-Driven...
-
Lessons for enabling accountability and integrity in Liberia
-
Working in environments characterised by a high degree of uncertainty, uncontrollability and unpredictability, development agents try to organise complex realities into manageable units. What principles influence the decision on adequate approaches and necessary steps? Through theoretical considerations and nine case studies, the GIZ traces implementation processes and identifies underlying guiding principles which provide the flexibility and adaptability that is necessary for acting in...
-
Two senior executives from the global bank describe their recent journey.
-
Iterative design methods are essential to development work—even (or especially) in regions marked by war and violence.
-
An important support function of Making All Voices Count South Africa is to design, plan and facilitate community of practice gatherings for sustained learning and sharing across Making All Voices Count grantees. This report aims to capture the content of a one-day Making All Voices Count South African Community of Practice (CoP) Meeting held in November 2016. The South African MAVC CoP has been running for three years and has met between two and four times a year. It is a space for MAVC...
-
The National Monitoring and Evaluation System of Costa Rica and its corresponding laws were established during the 1990s. Since then, the country has endeavored to implement monitoring and evaluation (M&E) activities as part of its public policy framework. Nevertheless, hardly any systematic evaluations had been conducted, and monitoring activities had been reduced mainly to the institutional self-reporting of implementation compliance. Persisting regional disparities and growing levels of...
-
Everyone is talking about systems. Or at least, that's how it seems in my wonkish corner of the philanthropic world. You can't attend a conference or even have a meeting without hearing about systems, whether it's people trying to disrupt them, map them, learn from them, or catalyze them.
Explore
Theme
-
Adaptive Approaches [+]
- Adaptive Learning (8)
- Adaptive Management (33)
- Agile & Lean approaches (14)
- Capacity WORKS (1)
- CLA (Collaborating Learning Adapting) (6)
- Design Thinking / HCD (6)
- Doing Development Differently (11)
- Other Adaptive approaches (3)
- Other sectors (3)
- PDIA (Problem-Driven Iterative Adaptation) (8)
- PEA (Political Economy Analysis) (3)
- Positive Deviance & 2 loops model (2)
- Results Based Management (8)
- Systems Thinking / Complexity (10)
- TWP (Thinking & Working Politically) (8)
- Cases (16)
- Courses (3)
-
Development Actors Perspectives
(22)
- Canada - GAC & IDRC (1)
- China (1)
- DFAT (Australia) (1)
- FCDO/DFID (UK) (5)
- GIZ (Germany) (2)
- Hivos - Netherlands (1)
- New Zealand (1)
- NGO Perspectives (1)
- OECD/DAC - Results Based Management (8)
- SDC - Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (1)
- SIDA - Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (1)
- USAID (3)
- World Bank (2)
-
Geography
(12)
-
Africa
(3)
-
Eastern Africa
(2)
- South Sudan (1)
- Zimbabwe (1)
-
West Africa
(1)
- Nigeria (1)
-
Eastern Africa
(2)
-
Americas
(2)
-
Central America
(1)
- Costa Rica (1)
-
North America
(1)
- Canada (1)
-
Central America
(1)
-
Asia
(2)
-
Eastern Asia
(1)
- China (1)
-
Southern Asia
(1)
- Afghanistan (1)
- India (1)
- Nepal (1)
- Pakistan (1)
-
Eastern Asia
(1)
-
Europe
(3)
-
Northern Europe
(1)
- United Kingdom (1)
-
Western Europe
(2)
- Netherlands (1)
- Switzerland (1)
-
Northern Europe
(1)
-
Oceania
(2)
- Australia and New Zealand (1)
- Melanesia (1)
-
Africa
(3)
- MEL4 Adaptive Management (6)
- Networks and Communities of Practice (1)
- Practical (6)
- Sectors [+] (15)
Resource type
- Blog Post (15)
- Book (8)
- Book Section (3)
- Conference Paper (2)
- Film (1)
- Journal Article (14)
- Magazine Article (1)
- Presentation (1)
- Report (48)
- Web Page (5)