Your search
Results 35 resources
-
This briefing note looks at how the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) Wildlife Asia programme has operationalised the concepts of adaptive rigour and adaptive management as part of its approach to collaborating, learning and adapting. As described by the Global Learning for Adaptive Management (GLAM) initiative, adaptive rigour is about ensuring that the data, information, methods, processes and systems that underpin adaptive management are robust, systematic and...
-
Doing development differently rests on deliberate efforts to reflect and learn, not just about what programmes are doing and achieving, but about how they are working. This is particularly important for an action research programme like Child Labour: Action- Research-Innovation in South and South-Eastern Asia (CLARISSA), which is implemented by a consortium of organisations from across the research and development spectrum, during a rapidly changing global pandemic. Harnessing the potential...
-
Pressure is mounting on international development cooperation agencies to prove the impact of their work. Private and public commissioners as well as the general public are increasingly asking for robust evidence of impact. In this context, rigorous impact evaluation (RIE) methods are increasingly receiving attention within the broader German development system and in GIZ. Compared to other implementing agencies such as DFID or USAid, the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale...
-
This learning paper highlights how elements of outcome mapping were used by Save the Children Sweden in a project (2018-2020) that supports adolescents, affected by the Syria crisis, to become more resilient. The paper first outlines how the spheres of influence framework has been applied to develop an actor focused theory of change. It then describes how progress markers, as an alternative to SMART indicators, were formulated to monitor the programme’s results. The paper also outlines how...
-
In order to support the digital transformation of government operations Digital Learning Modules for Civil Servants are available, an off-the-shelf package of capacity development in form of replicable training modules to empower public servants at both the local and central government level to be leaders of digital transformation for delivering better public services. The modules cover a multitude of fundamental areas: comprehending digital government and services, human-centered design...
-
CLARISSA (Child Labour: Action-Research-Innovation in South and South-Eastern Asia) has a participatory and child-centred approach that supports children to gather evidence, analyse it themselves and generate solutions to the problems they identify. The life story collection and collective analysis processes supported children engaged in the worst forms of child labour in Bangladesh to share and analyse their life stories. Over 400 life stories were collected from children who worked in...
-
On 18 December 2013, the Indonesian House of Representatives passed the new Village Law, a vote that was the culmination of a journey that had started in 2007. This Story of Change takes the passing of the Village Law as its starting point and describes the relative influence that research-based evidence, produced by the Institute for Research and Empowerment (IRE), has had at critical junctions of the legislative process. This Story of Change concludes that good quality, research-based...
-
Marginalised groups and their allies can, and do, use the law and justice systems, including public interest litigation, to improve their access to rights, goods and services. Yet there is no automatic link between legal action and improved outcomes for poor people. Where some minimum conditions are met – a progressive legal framework, a sympathetic judiciary and legal advocacy organisation – pro-poor litigation is a potential tool in disputes over rights and resources. But concrete...
-
Coalitions—groups of organizations and individuals that work together to pursue a common policy goal or reform—are crucial to development. Some of The Asia Foundation’s longest-standing and most successful development programs and portfolios have used coalition-building as an implementation modality. This paper examines successful initiatives in Bangladesh, Nepal, Philippines, Sri Lanka, Thailand, and Timor-Leste. By delving into each of these, we shed light on this coalition-building...
-
How and to what degree is the World Bank putting its new institutional citizen engagement (CE) commitments into practice? This question guides an independent assessment that the Accountability Research Center (ARC) at American University has undertaken as part of the Institute of Development Studies-led Action for Empowerment and Accountability (A4EA) research programme’s investigation into how external actors can best support local processes of and conditions for empowerment and...
-
This case study describes how LASER has gone about enabling systemic change and sustainable uptake of reforms that address complex institutional problems in Kenya, Rwanda, Sierra Leone, Somaliland and Uganda. In each of these countries LASER has designed-in a sustainable approach from the start based on: (i) local ownership and leadership of reforms based on developing country (rather than donor) priorities; (ii) use of country (rather than donor programme) systems; and (iii) an...
-
DT Global is proud to introduce our new Guidance Note: Practical Introduction to Adaptive Management There is a growing consensus around adaptive management as an effective (even necessary) approach when programs are tackling complex development problems. While there is no standard definition of adaptive management, there is general agreement that such programs need to routinely engage with and respond to program context; constantly test what works in that context; and adjust approaches,...
-
- The United Kingdom’s Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO)’s standard economy, efficiency, effectiveness/cost-effectiveness and equity (4E) framework is still relevant for approaching, measuring and managing value for money (VfM) for adaptive programmes. • However, this framework needs to be reframed to capture and incentivise flexibility, learning and adaptation. • VfM appraisal and reporting should be done in a way that draws on beneficiary feedback and informs good...
-
The CLARISSA Nepal team collected and analysed 400 life stories of children and young people engaged in or affected by the worst forms of child labour (WFCL), particularly in the “Adult Entertainment” sector in Nepal, which includes children working in Dohoris (restaurants playing folk music), dance bars, spa-massage parlours, khaja ghars (tea/snack shop) and guest houses. Stories were also collected from children in CLARISSA’s focus neighbourhoods, children in this category...
-
Since the beginning of reforms in the late 1970s, China has developed rapidly, transforming itself into a middle-income country, raising hundreds of millions out of poverty and, latterly, developing broad-based social protection systems. The country’s approach to reform has been unorthodox, leading many to talk of a specific Chinese model of development. This paper analyses the role of innovation (chuangxin) and experimentation in the Chinese government repertoire and their contribution to...
-
Executive Summary When Christian Aid (CA) Ireland devised its multi-country and multi-year Irish Aid funded Programme Grant II (2017-2022), they opted to move away from a linear programme management approach and to explore an adaptive one. Across seven countries: Angola, Colombia, El Salvador, Guatemala, Israel and the occupied Palestinian territory, Sierra Leone, and Zimbabwe, CA and partner organisations support marginalised communities to realise their rights, reduce violence and address...
-
The Method Positive Deviance (PD) is based on the observation that in every community or organization, there are a few individuals who achieve significantly better outcomes than their peers, despite having similar challenges and resources. These individuals are referred to as positive deviants, and adopting their solutions is what is referred to as the PD approach¹. The method described in this Handbook follows the same logic as the PD approach but uses pre-existing, non-traditional data...
Explore
Theme
-
Geography
-
Asia
-
Eastern Asia
(1)
- China (1)
-
South-eastern Asia
(12)
- Cambodia (1)
- Indonesia (3)
- Myanmar (6)
- Philippines (2)
- Thailand (1)
- Timor Leste (1)
-
Southern Asia
(20)
- Afghanistan (1)
- Bangladesh (9)
- India (2)
- Nepal (11)
- Pakistan (6)
- Sri Lanka (1)
-
Western Asia
(3)
- Israel (1)
- Jordan (1)
- Lebanon (1)
- State of Palestine (1)
- Syrian Arab Republic (1)
-
Eastern Asia
(1)
-
Africa
(11)
- Central Africa (2)
-
Eastern Africa
(9)
- Kenya (2)
- Malawi (2)
- Mozambique (5)
- Rwanda (1)
- Somalia (1)
- Somaliland (1)
- Tanzania (1)
- Uganda (2)
- Zambia (1)
- Zimbabwe (2)
- Northern Africa (2)
-
Southern Africa
(2)
- South Africa (2)
-
West Africa
(9)
- Benim (1)
- Niger (1)
- Nigeria (5)
- Sierra Leone (2)
-
Americas
(4)
-
Central America
(3)
- Ecuador (1)
- El Salvador (1)
- Guatemala (2)
- Mexico (2)
- South America (3)
-
Central America
(3)
-
Europe
(1)
-
Western Europe
(1)
- Germany (1)
-
Western Europe
(1)
-
Asia
- Adaptive Approaches [+] (22)
- Cases (25)
- Courses (1)
-
Development Actors Perspectives
(10)
- FCDO/DFID (UK) (2)
- GIZ (Germany) (2)
- Irish Aid (1)
- NGO Perspectives (2)
- Private Companies - Development Industry (1)
- UNDP, UN Global Pulse, UN... (2)
- World Bank (1)
-
MEL4 Adaptive Management
(16)
- After Action Reviews (1)
- Capacity Development (1)
- Case Study (1)
- Contribution Analysis (1)
- Critical Friends (1)
- Impact evaluation (2)
- Outcome Harvesting (1)
- Outcome Mapping (1)
- Participatory Action Research (5)
- Participatory Evaluation (1)
- Portfolio Management (1)
- Positive Deviance (1)
- Rigour (1)
- Systems Mapping (2)
- Value for Money (1)
- Practical (6)
-
Sectors [+]
(27)
- Alternative Development (2)
- Children (6)
- Citizen Engagement (1)
- Economic development (2)
- Employment (1)
- Fragile and Conflict Aflicted Settings (4)
- Gender (1)
- Governance and Accountability (8)
- Innovation (in Development) (2)
- Institutional Reform (2)
- Judicial systems (2)
- Knowledge to Practice (1)
- Locally driven development (1)
- Organizational Change (1)
- Peace Building (3)
- Scaling up / Propagating (1)
- Social Accountability (2)
- Technology (in Development) (1)
- Waste Management (1)