Your search
Results 245 resources
-
written by Salimah Samji We offered 4 free PDIA online courses between November 2015 and June 2016. They were well received and 365 people, living in 56 countries, successfully completed the course…
-
We recently wrote about how the data for development community needs to take a more context aware, demand-driven approach to data. Applying theories of change...
-
There’s an emerging body of literature identifying key strategies that can both improve learning and enable adaptive management amongst grant-makers. We recently reviewed a host of publications from eight grant-making organisations. Those organisations have diverse aims and approaches but we’ve identified six common themes that stand out: Strong leadership and facilitation enables successful learning and …
-
written by Lant Pritchett Yuen-Yuen Ang, a Professor of Political Science at University of Michigan came to speak at Harvard the other day and I was lucky enough to hear her presentation. Her most…
-
As part of a new series, we talk to Giulio Quaggiotto about the development ‘mutants’ – innovators working at the edge of the field.
-
Guest post from Harry Jones and Bishnu Adhikari, both of Palladium on what urban aid and development can learn from the Doing Development Differently movement
-
The Success Case Method approach is useful for documenting stories of impact and for understanding the factors that help or hinder impact. It is particularly useful for uncovering the contextual forces that influence impact. Originally designed for evaluating corporate training programs, the Success Case Method is now being applied to other programs including international development interventions. Last year, I provided technical assistance to a pilot of the Success Case Method as part of...
-
Report back from a meeting of international NGOs to set up a research and practice network on 'Doing Development Differently' that can complement other actors
-
The Doing Development Different (DDD) community emerged in August 2014 and advocates that (a) the barriers to development are as much political as tec...
-
Three challenges from Making All Voices Count research on responsive governance
-
Making tech effective - building on what we already know
-
Is there a new Washington Consensus? Alice Evans analyses the last five World Development Reports and finds significant changes in orthodoxy, but also big gaps
-
There are different ways to deliver aid programs, DFAT often uses facilities in its larger relationships, what are the rationales and risks behind this?
-
In recent years, more and more influential development organisations have been openly recognising the central role that adaptive management capacities – the ability to keep improving strategies and actions as programmes unfold – play for the success of complex interventions. As a result, there has been a rich exchange of ideas and experiences on how to promote adaptiveness in development. But development organisations and professionals are having a hard time translating the many adaptive...
-
Understanding and preventing the spread of both endemic and emerging healthcare-associated infectious diseases throughout hospitals and nursing homes is a national priority. Our work has shown that the many disparate inpatient healthcare facilities in a region can form a complex healthcare ecosystem connected by both direct and indirect patient sharing allowing pathogens in one health care facility to readily spread to other facilities. Our goal is to further develop RHEA (Regional...
Explore
Theme
-
Adaptive Approaches [+]
(111)
- Adaptive Learning (10)
- Adaptive Management (37)
- Adaptive Rigour (3)
- Agile & Lean approaches (19)
- CLA (Collaborating Learning Adapting) (4)
- Design Thinking / HCD (3)
- Doing Development Differently (9)
- Human Learning Systems (1)
- MSD - Market Systems Development (1)
- Other Adaptive approaches (5)
-
Other sectors
(2)
- Military (2)
- Organizational Management (1)
- PDIA (Problem-Driven Iterative Adaptation) (9)
- PEA (Political Economy Analysis) (2)
- Positive Deviance & 2 loops model (2)
- Systems Thinking / Complexity (21)
- TWP (Thinking & Working Politically) (11)
- Cases (2)
- Courses (1)
-
Development Actors Perspectives
(17)
- DFAT (Australia) (4)
- FCDO/DFID (UK) (4)
- Irish Aid (2)
- NGO Perspectives (2)
- Private Donors (OSF, Hewlett...) (1)
- UNDP, UN Global Pulse, UN... (3)
- USAID (1)
-
Geography
(4)
-
Africa
(1)
-
Eastern Africa
(1)
- South Sudan (1)
-
West Africa
(1)
- Mali (1)
-
Eastern Africa
(1)
-
Americas
(1)
-
South America
(1)
- Colombia (1)
-
South America
(1)
-
Asia
(2)
-
Eastern Asia
(1)
- China (1)
-
Southern Asia
(1)
- Bangladesh (1)
-
Eastern Asia
(1)
- Oceania (1)
-
Africa
(1)
-
MEL4 Adaptive Management
(83)
- After Action Reviews (1)
- Appreciative Inquiry (1)
- Capacity Development (1)
- Causal Mechanisms (1)
- Circular charts applications (radar, pie, sunburst, spiderweb, orbic, etc) (1)
- Contribution Analysis (1)
- Critical Friends (1)
- Critical Systems Heuristics (2)
- Developmental Evaluation (1)
- Empowerment Evaluation (1)
- Ex-post Evaluation (1)
- Feedback Systems (1)
- Impact evaluation (1)
- Knowledge Management (2)
- Logical Framework (1)
- Mapping Visualization Methods (3)
- MEL Bricolage (1)
- MEL in International Development (5)
- Network Analysis (1)
- Outcome Harvesting (1)
- Outcome Mapping (4)
- Participatory Evaluation (1)
- Participatory Learning and Action - PLA (2)
- Peers/Peer-Group Review (1)
- Portfolio Management (4)
- Positive Deviance (1)
- Process Tracing (1)
- Rigour (1)
- Rubrics (6)
- Rules of Thumb (2)
- SenseMaker (2)
- Social Return on Investment (2)
- Success Case Method (2)
- Sustainability (1)
- Systemic Change (6)
- Systems Mapping (3)
- Theory-based evaluations (1)
- TOC (Theory of Change) (10)
- Networks and Communities of Practice (9)
-
Practical
(10)
- Tools (1)
-
Sectors [+]
(53)
- Alternative Development (15)
- Cash Trasfers (1)
- Citizen Engagement (6)
- Governance and Accountability (15)
- Innovation (in Development) (9)
- Institutional Capacity & Change (2)
- Knowledge to Practice (3)
- Locally driven development (3)
- NGOs (3)
- Organizational Change (2)
- Peace Building (2)
- Scaling up / Propagating (1)
- Social Accountability (10)
- Social Protection (1)
- Technology (in Development) (1)