Your search
Results 1,884 resources
-
This briefing note focuses on the remote collection and use of data for adaptive management during the Covid-19 pandemic, setting out key considerations to help practitioners think through a transition from more ‘traditional’ monitoring, evaluation and learning (MEL) to MEL for adaptive management (MEL4AM) that reflects the unique data collection challenges presented by Covid-19. The brief provides an overview of some key considerations in remote data collection, when this is required, and...
-
Considerations for planning a post project evaluation during the project, at the end, or after it has closed.
-
Yogi Berra was right when he remarked, “If you don’t know where you’re going, you’ll wind up somewhere else.” When we collectively apply our hopes and energies to improving our communities, how do we know if we’re making the right choices along the way? How will we notice when we are spinning our wheels and what changes to make? How will we know that we are making a difference? And how will we know what success looks like to everyone in the group? By taking a community-based public health...
-
This paper presents an analysis of evidence from seven case studies of results-based management by development co-operation providers. Analysis of themes from the case studies reveal six interrelated challenges which providers face in their efforts to manage for the results of development co-operation. The six challenges are: linking results to development goals, ensuring the purpose of results systems is well-defined, weighing up the benefits of aggregating and attributing results from...
Explore
Theme
-
Adaptive Approaches [+]
(895)
- Adaptive Learning (85)
- Adaptive Management (277)
- Adaptive Rigour (8)
- Agile & Lean approaches (90)
- Capacity WORKS (6)
- CLA (Collaborating Learning Adapting) (38)
- Design Thinking / HCD (98)
- Doing Development Differently (27)
- Global Delivery Initiative (3)
- Human Learning Systems (2)
- MSD - Market Systems Development (16)
- Multi-Stakeholder Partnerships (7)
- Other Adaptive approaches (29)
-
Other sectors
(41)
- Activism and Social Movements (2)
- Environmental (7)
- Government (1)
- Logistics & Product Development (3)
- Military (9)
- Organizational Management (18)
- Philosophical roots (1)
- Project management (2)
- Psychology (1)
- Sport (2)
- Participation (8)
- PDIA (Problem-Driven Iterative Adaptation) (32)
- PEA (Political Economy Analysis) (27)
- Positive Deviance & 2 loops model (18)
- Results Based Management (14)
- Systemcraft (1)
- Systems Thinking / Complexity (186)
- TWP (Thinking & Working Politically) (78)
- Cases (145)
- Courses (15)
-
Development Actors Perspectives
(250)
- AFD (Agence Française de Développement) (1)
- Canada - GAC & IDRC (12)
- China (3)
- DANIDA - Danish International Development Agency (2)
- DCED - Donor Committee for Enterprise Development (13)
- DFAT (Australia) (14)
- EU (1)
- FCDO/DFID (UK) (44)
- G7 (1)
- GIZ (Germany) (20)
- Hivos - Netherlands (2)
- IFAD (1)
- ILO (1)
- Irish Aid (4)
- KOICA (Korea's International Co-operation Agency) (1)
- New Zealand (1)
- NGO Perspectives (33)
- OECD/DAC - Results Based Management (16)
- Private Companies - Development Industry (5)
- Private Donors (OSF, Hewlett...) (5)
- SDC - Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (22)
- SIDA - Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (5)
- UNDP, UN Global Pulse, UN... (10)
- USAID (36)
- WFP (1)
- World Bank (17)
-
Geography
(136)
-
Africa
(79)
-
Central Africa
(7)
- Angola (1)
- Cameroon (2)
- Democratic Republic of the Congo (4)
-
Eastern Africa
(35)
- Ethiopia (1)
- Kenya (6)
- Malawi (3)
- Mozambique (8)
- Rwanda (3)
- Somalia (6)
- Somaliland (1)
- South Sudan (3)
- Tanzania (5)
- Uganda (6)
- Zambia (1)
- Zimbabwe (4)
- Northern Africa (3)
-
Southern Africa
(4)
- South Africa (4)
- West Africa (50)
-
Central Africa
(7)
-
Americas
(14)
-
Central America
(6)
- Costa Rica (1)
- Ecuador (3)
- El Salvador (1)
- Guatemala (2)
- Mexico (4)
-
North America
(5)
- Canada (2)
- United States of America (4)
- South America (5)
-
Central America
(6)
-
Asia
(52)
-
Eastern Asia
(9)
- China (9)
-
South-eastern Asia
(17)
- Cambodia (3)
- Indonesia (4)
- Lao People's Democratic Republic (2)
- Myanmar (7)
- Philippines (2)
- Thailand (1)
- Timor Leste (1)
- Viet Nam (2)
-
Southern Asia
(24)
- Afghanistan (1)
- Bangladesh (13)
- India (2)
- Nepal (12)
- Pakistan (6)
- Sri Lanka (1)
-
Western Asia
(3)
- Israel (1)
- Jordan (1)
- Lebanon (1)
- State of Palestine (1)
- Syrian Arab Republic (1)
-
Eastern Asia
(9)
-
Europe
(10)
-
Eastern Europe
(1)
- Ukraine (1)
-
Northern Europe
(2)
- United Kingdom (2)
-
Southern Europe
(1)
- Spain (1)
-
Western Europe
(6)
- France (1)
- Germany (3)
- Netherlands (1)
- Switzerland (1)
-
Eastern Europe
(1)
- Many geographies (3)
-
Oceania
(4)
- Australia and New Zealand (3)
- Melanesia (1)
-
Africa
(79)
-
MEL4 Adaptive Management
(571)
- Action Inquiry/Collective Leadership (8)
- After Action Reviews (6)
- Appreciative Inquiry (5)
- Artificial Intelligence (4)
- Beneficiary Assessment/Engagement (6)
- Capacity Development (2)
- Case Study (8)
- Causal Mechanisms (13)
- Circular charts applications (radar, pie, sunburst, spiderweb, orbic, etc) (7)
- Comparisons/Benchmarking (1)
- Context Monitoring (1)
- Contribution Analysis (11)
- Cost-Benefit Analysis (3)
- Cost-effectiveness analysis (1)
- Critical Friends (3)
- Critical Systems Heuristics (6)
- Cross-sectional study (1)
- Data mining (1)
- Delphi Survey (1)
- Democratic Evaluation (2)
- Descriptive Statistics (1)
- Desk based research/lit review (3)
- Developmental Evaluation (13)
- Diaries (1)
- Empowerment Evaluation (4)
- Ethnography / Rapid Ethnography (5)
- Evaluability assessment (6)
- Evaluating Multi-project programmes (6)
- Ex-post Evaluation (5)
- Feedback Systems (5)
- Focus Group Discussions (3)
- Horizontal Evaluation (1)
- Humour (1)
- Impact evaluation (15)
- Impact Oriented Monitoring and Evaluation System (5)
- Indicator-based approaches (11)
- Innovation History (2)
- Innovation System Analysis (4)
- Institutional Histories (3)
- Knowing Unknowns (1)
- Knowledge Management (11)
- Logical Framework (14)
- Mapping Visualization Methods (10)
- MEL Bricolage (2)
- MEL in International Development (32)
- Most Significant Change (6)
- Narrative Based Approaches (2)
- Network Analysis (8)
- Objectives and options analysis (1)
- Outcome Harvesting (12)
- Outcome Mapping (31)
- Participatory Action Research (17)
- Participatory Evaluation (19)
- Participatory Learning and Action - PLA (11)
- Participatory Rural Appraisal - PRA, RRA (5)
- Peers/Peer-Group Review (4)
- Policy Scientific Approach (2)
- Political Economy Analysis (14)
- Political Sentiment Analysis (PSA) (1)
- Portfolio Management (18)
- Positive Deviance (6)
- Post Project Evaluations (1)
- Power Analysis (1)
- Principles-Focused Evaluation (1)
- Process Tracing (12)
- Public Management Theory (2)
- Qualitative Comparative Analysis (8)
- Qualitative data analysis and grounded theory (2)
- Qualitative Impact Assessment Protocol (3)
- Quality Improvement (1)
- Randomized Controlled Trials (13)
- Realist Evaluation (11)
- Remote Monitoring (1)
- Rigour (5)
- Rubrics (16)
- Rules of Thumb (3)
- Scenario Planning (9)
- SenseMaker (9)
- Social Media Metrics (1)
- Social Return on Investment (4)
- Stakeholder analysis (3)
- Stakeholder Feedback (3)
- Strategy testing (2)
- Success Case Method (4)
- Surveys (4)
- Sustainability (4)
- SWOT Analysis (1)
- Systemic Change (33)
- Systems Mapping (10)
- Tech 4 MEL (4)
- Theory-based evaluations (12)
- TOC (Theory of Change) (61)
- Trans-disciplinary Research (1)
- Utilisation focused evaluation (7)
- Value for Investment (4)
- Value for Money (9)
- Networks and Communities of Practice (51)
- Organizations (3)
-
Practical
(145)
- Tools (24)
-
Sectors [+]
(591)
- Advocacy and Activism (4)
- Agriculture (3)
- Alternative Development (111)
- Cash Trasfers (2)
- Children (8)
- Citizen Engagement (61)
- Climate Change (5)
- Combatting violent extremism (6)
- Economic development (15)
- Education (4)
- Employment (2)
- Environmental Management (30)
- Fragile and Conflict Aflicted Settings (14)
- Gender (9)
- Governance and Accountability (157)
- Health (10)
- Humanitarian Aid (8)
- Inclusion/Disability (1)
-
Innovation (in Development)
(59)
- Funding (1)
- Institutional Capacity & Change (18)
- Institutional Reform (6)
- Judicial systems (3)
- Knowledge to Practice (31)
- Land Reform (1)
- Locally driven development (20)
- Locally led development (3)
- NGOs (28)
- Organizational Change (14)
- Pastoralism (1)
- Peace Building (12)
- Private Sector Development (1)
- Research for Development (R4D) (6)
- Rural development (1)
- Scaling up / Propagating (23)
- Social Accountability (135)
- Social Change (3)
- Social Protection (1)
-
Technology (in Development)
(40)
- Appropriate Tech (3)
- Waste Management (1)
- Water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) (1)
Resource type
- Audio Recording (1)
- Blog Post (244)
- Book (191)
- Book Section (54)
- Conference Paper (28)
- Dataset (1)
- Document (15)
- Encyclopedia Article (1)
- Film (1)
- Forum Post (1)
- Journal Article (368)
- Magazine Article (27)
- Manuscript (1)
- Map (1)
- Newspaper Article (4)
- Presentation (17)
- Radio Broadcast (1)
- Report (832)
- Software (2)
- Thesis (6)
- Video Recording (19)
- Web Page (69)
Publication year
-
Between 2000 and 2024
- Between 2000 and 2009 (183)
- Between 2010 and 2019 (1,291)
- Between 2020 and 2024 (409)
-
Between 2030 and 2024
(1)
- 2034 (1)