Your search
Results 33 resources
-
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...
-
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...
-
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...
-
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...
-
This chapter examines good practices in implementing effective Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning (MEL) systems within complex international development Democracy, Human Rights, and Governance (DRG) programs, which are characterized by challenges of non-linearity, limited evidence of theories of change, and contextual and politically contingent nature of outcomes. The chapter presents three cases of MEL systems in complex projects implemented by Pact across distinct and diverse operating...
-
Abstract Motivation On December 15, 2012 Sombath Somphone was abducted at a police checkpoint in his home city of Vientiane, the capital of Laos; his whereabouts remain unknown. This article considers his work and disappearance through the lens of Thinking and Working Politically (TWP) approaches to development. The article is supportive of TWP, but emphasizes the significant risks of politicized programming in authoritarian contexts. Purpose By examining the case of Sombath Somphone, the...
-
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...
-
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...
-
Healthcare systems are increasingly recognised as complex, in which a range of non-linear and emergent behaviours occur. China’s healthcare system is no exception. The hugeness of China, and the variation in conditions in different jurisdictions present very substantial challenges to reformers, and militate against adopting one-size-fits-all policy solutions. As a consequence, approaches to change management in China have frequently emphasised the importance of sub-national experimentation,...
-
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...
Explore
Theme
- Cases
-
Geography
-
Asia
-
Eastern Asia
(2)
- China (2)
-
South-eastern Asia
(12)
- Cambodia (3)
- Indonesia (2)
- Lao People's Democratic Republic (2)
- Myanmar (5)
- Philippines (1)
- Viet Nam (2)
-
Southern Asia
(16)
- Afghanistan (1)
- Bangladesh (8)
- India (2)
- Nepal (8)
- Pakistan (3)
- Sri Lanka (1)
-
Western Asia
(3)
- Israel (1)
- Jordan (1)
- Lebanon (1)
- State of Palestine (1)
- Syrian Arab Republic (1)
-
Eastern Asia
(2)
-
Africa
(9)
- Central Africa (2)
-
Eastern Africa
(7)
- Kenya (2)
- Malawi (1)
- Mozambique (2)
- Rwanda (1)
- Somalia (1)
- Somaliland (1)
- Tanzania (1)
- Uganda (3)
- Zambia (1)
- Zimbabwe (3)
- Northern Africa (1)
-
Southern Africa
(2)
- South Africa (2)
-
West Africa
(6)
- Nigeria (4)
- Sierra Leone (2)
-
Americas
(2)
-
Central America
(2)
- El Salvador (1)
- Guatemala (2)
- Mexico (1)
- South America (2)
-
Central America
(2)
-
Asia
- Adaptive Approaches [+] (25)
-
Development Actors Perspectives
(9)
- China (2)
- FCDO/DFID (UK) (2)
- IFAD (1)
- Irish Aid (1)
- NGO Perspectives (1)
- Private Companies - Development Industry (1)
- WFP (1)
- World Bank (1)
-
MEL4 Adaptive Management
(15)
- After Action Reviews (1)
- Capacity Development (1)
- Case Study (1)
- Critical Friends (1)
- Feedback Systems (1)
- Impact evaluation (1)
- Logical Framework (1)
- MEL in International Development (1)
- Outcome Harvesting (1)
- Outcome Mapping (1)
- Participatory Action Research (5)
- Realist Evaluation (1)
- Systems Mapping (2)
- Utilisation focused evaluation (1)
- Value for Money (1)
- Practical (3)
-
Sectors [+]
(26)
- Alternative Development (1)
- Cash Trasfers (1)
- Children (5)
- Citizen Engagement (1)
- Economic development (3)
- Employment (1)
- Fragile and Conflict Aflicted Settings (4)
- Gender (1)
- Governance and Accountability (5)
- Health (2)
- Institutional Reform (1)
- Judicial systems (2)
- Knowledge to Practice (1)
- Land Reform (1)
- Peace Building (3)
- Scaling up / Propagating (1)
- Social Accountability (2)
- Social Protection (1)
- Waste Management (1)
Resource type
- Blog Post (1)
- Conference Paper (1)
- Journal Article (6)
- Report (25)