Your search
Results 184 resources
-
This free guide aims to build the skills and confidence of people designing and facilitating participatory, productive, and engaging workshop sessions for work teams and communities of practice by providing them with a series of creative activities that can be run in-person or virtually. By the time they have gone through this guide, session leads will be able to: Describe ways in which creative activities can be of value to teams and communities of practice, Design both in-person and...
-
This free guide aims to build the skills and confidence of people designing and facilitating virtual meetings, including online community of practice sessions. By the time they have gone through this guide, community of practice facilitators will be able to: Design an engaging and participatory virtual session, Develop an effective, varied and realistic agenda for a virtual session, Apply a wide range of virtual facilitation techniques, and Using technology to facilitate virtual...
-
Development donors invest significantly in governance reform, including in contexts characterised by conflict and fragility. However, there is relatively little comparative study of their change strategies, and little understanding of what works and why. This paper explores the strategies of six recent DFID-funded programmes in Mozambique, Myanmar, and Pakistan with empowerment and accountability aims. Document review and field interviews are used to analyse the application of multi-scalar...
-
The logical framework approach (LFA) has come to play a central role in the planning and management of development interventions over the last twenty years. Although the logical framework has become universally known, it is far from universally liked. It has been the subject of much criticism over the years, concerning both the theoretical basis of the approach, and the way it is applied in practice. In this review, we have attempted to take stock of the current views of international...
-
The conversation on adaptive management has grown fast amongst development actors. These conversations often focus on designing, commissioning, and managing large-scale development programmes. Exactly how this impacts the frontline, the implementers, and day-to-day project delivery is still being debated. Yet, perspectives drawn directly from practice are often largely missing within these debates. This paper is written by two development practitioners. Through this paper, we reflect on the...
-
This paper assesses the relevance of adaptive or trial-and-error approaches to the field of governance, peace building and human rights. Tackling the problems of poverty, vulnerability and exclusion that persist in parts of the world that continue to be affected by violence or political insecurity is difficult for several reasons. For one, because of the complexity of the prevailing social, economic and political systems, solutions to chronic problems are far from obvious. One response to...
-
How does adaptive implementation work in practice? Drawing on extensive interviews and observations, this paper contrasts the ways in which an adaptive component of a major health care project was implemented in three program and three matched comparison states in Nigeria. The paper examines the bases on which claims and counterclaims about the effectiveness of these approaches were made by different actors, concluding that resolution requires any such claims to be grounded in a...
-
Pact’s Adaptive Management Guide provides practical guidance to development practitioners globally on the mindsets, behaviors, resources, and processes that underpin an effective adaptive management system. It presents an approach to managing adaptively that is rooted in complexity analysis and program theory. It draws on Pact’s global experiences and work on topics as diverse as health, livelihoods, markets, governance, capacity development, women and youth, and more. This document begins...
-
“Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better.” --Samuel Beckett Here’s my favorite part of that quote: the ultimate goal is not a lack of failure; it’s better failures. That’s good news for CARE, because we just published round two of our Learning From Failure initiative, and…I know this will surprise everyone…we haven’t stopped failures yet. We do have some hopeful signs that we’re failing better; or at least, that we’re improving on some concrete weaknesses we identified in...
-
Adaptive management approaches potentially offer us opportunities to deliver high quality results in circumstances where change is complex, including in fragile, unstable or conflict affected places. However, building adaptive programming continues to be a challenge for the sector. For CARE, our Department for International Development -UK Aid funded Girls’ Education Challenge (GEC) programming has provided useful learning on how to operationalise adaptive approaches. In this paper we expand...
-
Introduction to the Overview: Tiny Tools Why “Tiny Tools” for assessing change? Currently, change is mostly assessed by NGO staff or external experts. The vision of this paper is that communities assess and reflect change themselves and make use of that reflection with appropriate tools. All the tools presented here are relatively quick and easy to learn (therefore “tiny”). With Tiny Tools we can assess change in one session. They can therefore be used where there are not baselines. They are...
-
The CommunityFirst Framework is intended to be implemented by field teams at MSF. The theoretical aspects and evidence presented on the importance of community engagement are intended for all MSF staff seeking to learn more about why and how to shift the way we work with communities as humanitarians. We believe this guideline, and other tools like it (including OCA’s Person-Centred Approach Guidance07, and MSF Vienna Evaluation Unit’s Guidance for Involving Communities08), to be an important...
-
Fragile, conflict and violence-affected settings (FCVAS) are messy and ambiguous contexts in which to plan and implement development initiatives. To work there, external actors are increasingly adopting an adaptive approach to empowerment and accountability (E&A) programming, whatever the setting. This means using a compass rather than map, where real-time political economy analysis (PEA) in relation to context and programme monitoring and evidence-informed learning in relation to...
-
For organizations committed to social change, advocacy often figures as a crucial strategic element. How to assess effectiveness in advocacy is, therefore, important. The usefulness of Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning (MEL) in advocacy are subject to much current debate. Advocacy staff, MEL professionals, senior managers, the funding community, and stakeholders of all kinds are searching for ways to improve practices – and thus their odds of success – in complex and contested advocacy...
Explore
Theme
-
Development Actors Perspectives
- AFD (Agence Française de Développement) (1)
- Canada - GAC & IDRC (6)
- DANIDA - Danish International Development Agency (2)
- DCED - Donor Committee for Enterprise Development (6)
- DFAT (Australia) (9)
- EU (1)
- FCDO/DFID (UK) (38)
- G7 (1)
- GIZ (Germany) (14)
- Hivos - Netherlands (2)
- ILO (1)
- Irish Aid (2)
- KOICA (Korea's International Co-operation Agency) (1)
- New Zealand (1)
- NGO Perspectives (26)
- OECD/DAC - Results Based Management (13)
- Private Companies - Development Industry (5)
- Private Donors (OSF, Hewlett...) (4)
- SDC - Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (18)
- SIDA - Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (5)
- UNDP, UN Global Pulse, UN... (6)
- USAID (28)
- World Bank (11)
-
Adaptive Approaches [+]
(101)
- Adaptive Learning (7)
- Adaptive Management (60)
- Adaptive Rigour (1)
- Agile & Lean approaches (2)
- Capacity WORKS (3)
- CLA (Collaborating Learning Adapting) (6)
- Doing Development Differently (2)
- Global Delivery Initiative (2)
- MSD - Market Systems Development (7)
- Other Adaptive approaches (5)
-
Other sectors
(1)
- Government (1)
- PDIA (Problem-Driven Iterative Adaptation) (2)
- PEA (Political Economy Analysis) (4)
- Results Based Management (11)
- Systemcraft (1)
- Systems Thinking / Complexity (12)
- TWP (Thinking & Working Politically) (4)
- Cases (32)
- Courses (3)
-
Geography
(26)
-
Africa
(13)
- Central Africa (2)
-
Eastern Africa
(7)
- Kenya (1)
- Malawi (1)
- Mozambique (3)
- Rwanda (1)
- Somalia (2)
- Somaliland (1)
- Tanzania (1)
- Uganda (1)
- Zimbabwe (1)
-
Northern Africa
(1)
- Egypt (1)
-
West Africa
(11)
- Benim (1)
- Niger (2)
- Nigeria (4)
- Senegal (1)
- Sierra Leone (3)
-
Americas
(6)
-
Central America
(3)
- Ecuador (2)
- El Salvador (1)
- Guatemala (1)
- Mexico (2)
-
North America
(1)
- Canada (1)
- South America (3)
-
Central America
(3)
-
Asia
(10)
- South-eastern Asia (5)
-
Southern Asia
(4)
- Bangladesh (2)
- Nepal (1)
- Pakistan (2)
-
Western Asia
(2)
- Israel (1)
- State of Palestine (1)
- Syrian Arab Republic (1)
-
Europe
(6)
-
Northern Europe
(1)
- United Kingdom (1)
-
Western Europe
(5)
- Germany (3)
- Netherlands (1)
- Switzerland (1)
-
Northern Europe
(1)
- Many geographies (1)
- Oceania (1)
-
Africa
(13)
-
MEL4 Adaptive Management
(50)
- After Action Reviews (2)
- Beneficiary Assessment/Engagement (4)
- Capacity Development (1)
- Context Monitoring (1)
- Critical Friends (1)
- Desk based research/lit review (1)
- Ethnography / Rapid Ethnography (1)
- Ex-post Evaluation (1)
- Feedback Systems (2)
- Impact evaluation (3)
- Impact Oriented Monitoring and Evaluation System (2)
- Innovation System Analysis (1)
- Institutional Histories (1)
- Logical Framework (2)
- MEL in International Development (6)
- Outcome Mapping (1)
- Participatory Action Research (1)
- Participatory Evaluation (2)
- Participatory Learning and Action - PLA (2)
- Participatory Rural Appraisal - PRA, RRA (1)
- Peers/Peer-Group Review (2)
- Portfolio Management (3)
- Positive Deviance (2)
- Rigour (2)
- Rubrics (2)
- Strategy testing (1)
- Systemic Change (7)
- Systems Mapping (1)
- TOC (Theory of Change) (4)
- Value for Money (2)
- Networks and Communities of Practice (3)
-
Practical
(40)
- Tools (4)
-
Sectors [+]
(54)
- Agriculture (1)
- Alternative Development (5)
- Children (2)
- Citizen Engagement (1)
- Climate Change (1)
- Economic development (6)
- Environmental Management (4)
- Fragile and Conflict Aflicted Settings (4)
- Gender (4)
- Governance and Accountability (12)
- Humanitarian Aid (3)
-
Innovation (in Development)
(6)
- Funding (1)
- Institutional Capacity & Change (3)
- Institutional Reform (1)
- Judicial systems (1)
- Knowledge to Practice (2)
- Locally driven development (7)
- Locally led development (1)
- NGOs (7)
- Organizational Change (4)
- Peace Building (1)
- Scaling up / Propagating (1)
- Social Accountability (6)
- Technology (in Development) (1)
Resource type
Publication year
- Between 2000 and 2024 (184)