@book{guerrero_scaling_2023, title = {Scaling {Up} {Development} {Impact}}, url = {https://www.amazon.com/-/es/Isabel-Guerrero/dp/B0CNWS7W64/ref=sr_1_1?__mk_es_US=%C3%85M%C3%85%C5%BD%C3%95%C3%91&keywords=Scaling+Up+Development+Impact&qid=1707861783&sr=8-1}, abstract = {Today, nearly one billion people lack electricity, over three billion lack clean water, and 750 million lack basic literacy skills. Many of these challenges could be solved with existing solutions, and technology enables us to reach the last mile like never before. Yet, few solutions attain the necessary scale to match the size of these challenges. Scaling Up Development Impact offers an analytical framework, a set of practical tools, and adaptive evaluation techniques to accompany the scaling process. It presents rich organizational experiences that showcase real-world journeys toward increased impact. From the people from IMAGOgg.org}, urldate = {2024-02-13}, publisher = {Bowker}, author = {Guerrero, Isabel and Gokhale, Siddhant and Fahsbender, Jossie}, month = nov, year = {2023}, } @book{grant_hidden_2023, title = {Hidden {Potential}: {The} {Science} of {Achieving} {Greater} {Things}}, isbn = {978-0-7535-6004-4}, shorttitle = {Hidden {Potential}}, url = {https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/157095669-hidden-potential}, abstract = {\#1 New York Times bestseller "This brilliant book will shatter your assumptions about what it takes to improve and succeed. I wish I could go back in time and gift it to my younger self. It would've helped me find a more joyful path to progress."-Serena Williams, 23-time Grand Slam singles tennis championThe \#1 New York Times bestselling author of Think Again illuminates how we can elevate ourselves and others to unexpected heights.We live in a world that’s obsessed with talent. We celebrate gifted students in school, natural athletes in sports, and child prodigies in music. But admiring people who start out with innate advantages leads us to overlook the distances we ourselves can travel. We can all improve at improving. And when opportunity doesn’t knock, there are ways to build a door.Hidden Potential offers a new framework for raising aspirations and exceeding expectations. Adam Grant weaves together groundbreaking evidence, surprising insights, and vivid story­telling that takes us from the classroom to the boardroom, the playground to the Olympics, and underground to outer space. He shows that progress depends less on how hard you work than how well you learn. Growth is not about the genius you possess – it’s about the character you develop. Grant explores how to build the charac­ter skills and motivational structures to realize our own potential, and how to design systems that create opportunities for those who have been underrated and overlooked.This book reveals how anyone can rise to achieve greater things. The true measure of your potential is not the height of the peak you’ve reached, but how far you’ve climbed to get there.}, language = {English}, publisher = {WH Allen}, author = {Grant, Adam}, month = oct, year = {2023}, } @book{koch_foreign_2023, address = {London}, title = {Foreign {Aid} and {Its} {Unintended} {Consequences}}, isbn = {978-1-00-335685-1}, abstract = {Foreign aid and international development frequently bring with it a range of unintended consequences, both negative and positive. This book delves into these consequences, providing a fresh and comprehensive guide to understanding and addressing them. The book starts by laying out a theoretical framework based on complexity thinking, before going on to explore the ten most prevalent kinds of unintended effects of foreign aid: backlash effects, conflict effects, migration and resettlement effects, price effects, marginalization effects, behavioural effects, negative spillover effects, governance effects, environmental effects, and ripple effects. Each chapter revolves around a set of concrete case studies, analysing the mechanisms underpinning the unintended effects and proposing ways in which policymakers, practitioners, and evaluators can tackle negative side effects and maximize positive side effects. The book also includes personal testimonies, a succinct overview of unintended effects, and suggestions for further reading. Providing a clear overview of what side effects to anticipate when planning, executing, and evaluating aid, this book will be an important resource for students, development practitioners, and policymakers alike.}, publisher = {Routledge}, author = {Koch, Dirk-Jan}, month = sep, year = {2023}, doi = {10.4324/9781003356851}, } @book{harper_last_2023, address = {New York}, title = {The {Last} 10 {Per} {Cent}: {Why} the {World} {Needs} a {Leaner}, {More} {Innovative} and {Pragmatic} {Development} {Sector}, {Today}}, isbn = {978-1-03-215278-3}, shorttitle = {The {Last} 10 {Per} {Cent}}, url = {https://www.routledge.com/The-Last-10-Per-Cent-Why-the-World-Needs-a-Leaner-More-Innovative-and/Harper/p/book/9781032454344}, abstract = {Criticism that the development sector has not delivered in terms of eliminating extreme poverty, fast-tracking growth and preventing conflict, is neither new nor surprising. In fact, it may be the one thing that scholars, donors and practitioners agree on. While many of these concerns are valid, this book makes a case that the sector is closer to unlocking the gates to more effective and efficient development outcomes than is popularly believed. Specifically, it argues that by overturning a few myths, making better use of evidence and employing some different rules, practitioners, policy specialists and donors can foster the changes in the development architecture that are needed to reach the 10 percent of the world’s population still living in extreme poverty.Engaging, provocative and clear sighted, the book provides insight into interventions around democratic governance, refugee response, counterterrorism, gender mainstreaming, environmental protection and private sector engagement. It is instructive reading for professionals across the development sector, think tanks and NGOs.}, language = {English}, publisher = {Routledge India}, author = {Harper, Erica}, month = mar, year = {2023}, } @book{mazzucato_big_2023, title = {The {Big} {Con}: {How} the {Consulting} {Industry} {Weakens} our {Businesses}, {Infantilizes} our {Governments} and {Warps} our {Economies}}, isbn = {978-0-241-57308-2}, shorttitle = {The {Big} {Con}}, abstract = {There is an entrenched relationship between the consulting industry and the way business and government are managed today which must change.Mariana Mazzucato and Rosie Collington show that our economies' reliance on companies such as McKinsey, Boston Consulting Group, Bain \& Company, PwC, Deloitte, KPMG and EY stunts innovation, obfuscates corporate and political accountability and impedes our collective mission of halting climate breakdown.The 'Big Con' describes the confidence trick the consulting industry performs in contracts with hollowed-out and risk-averse governments and shareholder value-maximizing firms. It grew from the 1980s and 1990s in the wake of reforms by both the neoliberal right and Third Way progressives, and it thrives on the ills of modern capitalism, from financialization and privatization to the climate crisis. It is possible because of the unique power that big consultancies wield through extensive contracts and networks - as advisors, legitimators and outsourcers - and the illusion that they are objective sources of expertise and capacity. To make matters worse, our best and brightest graduates are often redirected away from public service into consulting. In all these ways, the Big Con weakens our businesses, infantilizes our governments and warps our economies.Mazzucato and Collington expertly debunk the myth that consultancies always add value to the economy. With a wealth of original research, they argue brilliantly for investment and collective intelligence within all organizations and communities, and for a new system in which public and private sectors work innovatively for the common good. We must recalibrate the role of consultants and rebuild economies and governments that are fit for purpose.}, language = {English}, publisher = {Allen Lane}, author = {Mazzucato, Mariana and Collington, Rosie}, month = feb, year = {2023}, } @book{flyvbjerg_how_2023, title = {How {Big} {Things} {Get} {Done}: {The} {Surprising} {Factors} {Behind} {Every} {Successful} {Project}, from {Home} {Renovations} to {Space} {Exploration}}, isbn = {978-1-03-501893-2}, shorttitle = {How {Big} {Things} {Get} {Done}}, abstract = {World expert Bent Flyvbjerg and bestselling author Dan Gardner reveal the secrets to successfully planning and delivering ambitious projects on any scale.Nothing is more inspiring than a big vision that becomes a triumphant new reality. Think of how Apple’s iPod went from a project with a single employee to an enormously successful product launch in eleven months. But such successes are the exception. Consider how London’s Crossrail project delivered five years late and billions over budget. More modest endeavours, whether launching a small business, organizing a conference, or just finishing a work project on time, also commonly fail. Why?Understanding what distinguishes the triumphs from the failures has been the life’s work of Oxford professor Bent Flyvbjerg. In How Big Things Get Done, he identifies the errors that lead projects to fail, and the research-based principles that will make yours succeed:- Understand your odds. If you don’t know them, you won’t win.- Plan slow, act fast. Getting to the action quick feels right. But it’s wrong.- Think right to left. Start with your goal, then identify the steps to get there.- Find your Lego. Big is best built from small.- Master the unknown unknowns. Most think they can’t, so they fail. Flyvbjerg shows how you can.Full of vivid examples ranging from the building of the Sydney Opera House to the making of the latest Pixar blockbusters, How Big Things Get Done reveals how to get any ambitious project done – on time and on budget.}, language = {English}, publisher = {Macmillan}, author = {Flyvbjerg, Bent and Gardner, Dan}, month = feb, year = {2023}, } @book{justis_dont_2023, title = {Don't {Lead} {Alone}: {Think} {Like} a {System}, {Act} {Like} a {Network}, {Lead} {Like} a {Movement}!}, isbn = {978-1-63908-040-3}, shorttitle = {Don't {Lead} {Alone}}, abstract = {Think. Act. Lead.It seems simple enough. But understanding your desired impact and how it fits into a larger picture, connecting your work to others and finding new collaborators, and bringing those collaborators together and moving them in a unified direction is never easy.Governments, businesses, and nonprofits all have unique approaches and ideas that many of us learn through our work. Yet, we rarely consider the skills needed to create and maintain the partnerships between them. Most of us learn those skills through trial, error, and often, failure. Worse, we typically stay in our self-reinforcing silos, sharing perspectives and frustrations with like-minded people, limiting our vision of what our work can become. By partnering with other sectors, we combine and adapt approaches to solve complex problems, and leaders in any industry can create large-scale change.Cleveland Justis and Daniel Student share a road map for effective partnerships that increase impact and profitability. Using real-life examples and practice exercises, the authors teach how to acquire and use skills to solve complex problems and propel your organization forward by combining a multitude of perspectives, split into three sections:Think Like a SystemAct Like a NetworkLead Like a MovementIt’s time to get out of our silos. Don’t lead alone.}, language = {Inglés}, publisher = {Fast Company Press}, author = {Justis, Cleveland and Student, Daniel}, month = feb, year = {2023}, } @book{sims_development_2022, edition = {1st ed. 2023 edition}, title = {Development {Delusions} and {Contradictions}: {An} {Anatomy} of the {Foreign} {Aid} {Industry}}, isbn = {978-3-031-17769-9}, shorttitle = {Development {Delusions} and {Contradictions}}, abstract = {This book analyses the shortcomings of the Western development aid programme. Through exploring the evolution of aid over more than seven decades, development is examined as an industry with a variety of motives and actors. The driving forces and dynamics in the relationship between aid and economic development are highlighted in relation to faulty development structures and misaligned aims. With a particular focus on Egypt, radical questions are posed on how global aid and development can be improved, including how it can respond to the COVID-19 pandemic.This book aims to present an alternative aid framework to help overcome the dysfunctionality of the current international development system. It will be of interest to researchers and policymakers working within development economics and development policy.}, language = {English}, publisher = {Palgrave Macmillan}, author = {Sims, David}, month = dec, year = {2022}, } @book{guijt_learning_2022, title = {The {Learning} {Power} of {Listening}}, isbn = {978-1-78853-200-6}, url = {https://practicalactionpublishing.com/book/2622/the-learning-power-of-listening}, abstract = {Steff had the pleasure to co-author the first SenseMaker Practitioner Guide with a group of friends and colleagues supported and published by Oxfam and CRS. This practical guide is for those who wish to use SenseMaker to conduct assessments, monitor progress, and undertake evaluations or research. Drawing on more than a decade of experience, the authors share dozens of examples from international development, providing practical tips and ideas for context-specific adaptations. They show how the method can be used to for difficult-to-measure outcomes related to poverty reduction, social justice, peacebuilding, resilience, gender norms, behavior change, governance and environmental management. ​ SenseMaker is a unique participatory method of inquiry that encourages and enables novel insights not obtained from conventional quantitative and quantitative and qualitative methods. It is action-oriented and, therefore, well-suited for people needing data- informed insights for adaptive management. "Writing this guide together with Irene, Veronica, Anna and Rita was an enormous learning process in itself and has further shaped our thinking and practice. We hope it will support first-time and experienced users to enhance their practice and that it will inspire people to explore and innovate further with the method."}, urldate = {2022-07-26}, publisher = {PRACTICAL ACTION PUBLISHING}, author = {Guijt, Irene and Gottret, Maria Veronica and Hanchar, Anna and Deprez, Steff and Muckenhirn, Rita}, month = jun, year = {2022}, doi = {10.3362/9781788532006}, note = {Pages: 1-188}, } @book{dercon_gambling_2022, title = {Gambling on {Development}: {Why} {Some} {Countries} {Win} and {Others} {Lose}}, isbn = {978-1-78738-562-7}, shorttitle = {Gambling on {Development}}, language = {English}, publisher = {C Hurst \& Co Publishers Ltd}, author = {Dercon, Stefan}, month = may, year = {2022}, } @book{schomerus_lives_2022, address = {New York, NY}, title = {Lives {Amid} {Violence}: {Transforming} {Development} in the {Wake} of {Conflict}}, isbn = {978-0-7556-4083-6}, shorttitle = {Lives {Amid} {Violence}}, url = {https://www.bloomsburycollections.com/book/lives-amid-violence-transforming-development-in-the-wake-of-conflict/}, abstract = {Violent conflict and its aftermath are pressing problems, particularly for international development initiatives. However, the results of development in conflict contexts have generally been disappointing and their preventative potential thus questionable. Available Open Access, Lives Amid Violence argues that this is because practitioners adhere to a mental model that emphasises linearity, certainty, and causality, assuming that violence is best addressed through work plans that deliver state-building, stabilisation and services. Based on ten years of multi-method research from, in, and on conflict-affected countries, this book challenges this approach.Drawing on a significant collaborative body of scholarship, this work puts forward original and generalizable conclusions about how lives amid violence persist, offering an invitation to abandon restricting mental models and to embrace creative ways of thinking and working. These include paying attention to the long-term effects of conflict on individual behaviour and decision-making, the social realities of economic life, the role service delivery plays in negotiations between citizens and states, and to creating meaningful relationships. Transformation also requires reflection and therefore the book concludes with constructive suggestions on how to practice these insights to better support those whose lives are shaped by violence.More details are available at www.transformingdevelopment.orgThe eBook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com.}, language = {Inglés}, urldate = {2023-03-21}, author = {Schomerus, Mareike}, year = {2022}, } @book{zaremba_inclusive_2021, title = {Inclusive participatory approaches: {A} facilitator’s guide}, isbn = {978-92-9255-234-3}, shorttitle = {Inclusive participatory approaches}, url = {https://cgspace.cgiar.org/handle/10568/117461}, abstract = {In community engagement and participatory processes, facilitators must make intentional efforts and adopt inclusive strategies to include marginalized and frequently overlooked groups. Yet, there is a lack of guidance on how to inclusively facilitate participatory processes. Facilitators are therefore often poorly prepared to engage with the power relations that underlie these processes, including those between the facilitator and participants and among participants themselves. This guide addresses this shortcoming by presenting strategies that have been shown to enhance the meaningful participation of women and marginalized groups in participatory processes. The aim is to equip facilitators with tools to create inclusive participatory spaces and community engagement. Although it refers to processes related to natural resource management, the guide is also applicable to the facilitation of participatory processes focusing on other issues or fields of significance to communities.}, language = {en}, urldate = {2023-10-17}, author = {Zaremba, Haley and Elias, Marlène and Devi, J. Tulasi and Priyadarshini, Pratiti}, month = dec, year = {2021}, note = {Accepted: 2022-01-12T09:19:12Z}, } @book{rayner_systems_2021, address = {Oxford}, title = {The {Systems} {Work} of {Social} {Change}: {How} to {Harness} {Connection}, {Context}, and {Power} to {Cultivate} {Deep} and {Enduring} {Change}}, isbn = {978-0-19-885745-7}, shorttitle = {The {Systems} {Work} of {Social} {Change}}, url = {https://www.hive.co.uk/Product/Cynthia-Senior-Researcher-Senior-Researcher-Graduate-School-Rayner/The-Systems-Work-of-Social-Change--How-to-Harness-Connect/25942985}, abstract = {The issues of poverty, inequality, racial justice, and climate change have never been more pressing or paralyzing. Current approaches to social change, which rely on industrial models of production and power to "solve" social problems, are not helping. In fact, they are designed to entrench the status quo. In The Systems Work of Social Change, Cynthia Rayner and François Bonnici draw on two hundred years of history and a treasure trove of stories of committed social changemakers to uncover principles and practices for social change that radically depart from these approaches. Rather than delivering "solutions," these principles and practices focus on the process of change itself. Through rich storytelling and lucid analysis, Rayner and Bonnici show that connection, context, and power sit at the heart of the change process, ensuring broader agency for people and communities to create social systems that are responsive and representative in a rapidly changing world. Simple yet profound, this book distills a timely set of lessons for practitioners, leaders, scholars, and policymakers.}, language = {English}, urldate = {2023-02-24}, publisher = {OUP Oxford}, author = {Rayner, Cynthia and Bonnici, François}, month = oct, year = {2021}, } @book{andrews_pdia_2021, address = {Cambridge, MA}, title = {{PDIA} in action}, url = {https://bsc.cid.harvard.edu/files/bsc/files/pdia_book_square_final.pdf}, abstract = {Learning from our experience in 2020, we asked the alumni of our HKS Implementing Public Policy (IPP) Executive Education program, if they wanted to work with our students on their nominated problems. Eight IPP alumni, William Keith Young, Adaeze Oreh, Milzy Carrasco, Kevin Schilling, Artem Shaipov, George Imbenzi, David Wuyep, and Raphael Kenigsberg, who had been trained on PDIA and implementation, signed up to work with our students. Thirty-seven students signed up to take the course beginning January 26th, 2021. The students worked across eight teams and adopted a problem driven approach to foster learning that could help their authorizers develop an action learning strategy to their nominated challenge. This book highlights the students’ work drawing from their blogs as well as the event series. There are 8 sections, one for each of the teams and the problems they worked on during the course. We hope you enjoy reading their stories! Scan the QR Code at the end of each section to learn more.}, urldate = {2021-12-16}, publisher = {Center for International Development, Harvard University}, editor = {Andrews, Matt and Samji, Salimah}, month = may, year = {2021}, } @book{oecd_applying_2021, address = {Paris}, title = {Applying {Evaluation} {Criteria} {Thoughtfully}}, url = {https://www.oecd-ilibrary.org/content/publication/543e84ed-en}, abstract = {Relevance, coherence, effectiveness, efficiency, impact, and sustainability are widely used evaluation criteria, particularly in international development co-operation. They help to determine the merit or worth of various interventions, such as strategies, policies, programmes or projects. This guidance aims to help evaluators and others to better understand those criteria, and improve their use. It starts by describing what they are, and how they are meant to be used. Then the definitions and concepts underpinning each criterion are explained. Finally, examples provide the reader with concrete ideas for using them. The criteria were originally laid out in the early 2000s by the Network on Development Evaluation (EvalNet) of the OECD Development Assistance Committee (DAC). Although they have been widely used in evaluation, and beyond, this document is the first to comprehensively explore the concepts in detail, explain their intended use and offer practical guidance. It captures current thinking and best practice in evaluation, drawing on the inputs of internationally renowned evaluation experts from EvalNet and beyond.}, publisher = {OECD}, author = {OECD}, month = mar, year = {2021}, note = {Type: doi:https://doi.org/10.1787/543e84ed-en}, } @book{centola_change_2021, address = {London}, title = {Change: {How} to {Make} {Big} {Things} {Happen}}, isbn = {978-0-316-45733-0}, shorttitle = {Change}, abstract = {How to create the change you want to see in the world using the paradigm-busting ideas in this "utterly fascinating" (Adam Grant) big-idea book.​ Most of what we know about how ideas spread comes from bestselling authors who give us a compelling picture of a world, in which "influencers" are king, "sticky" ideas "go viral," and good behavior is "nudged" forward. The problem is that the world they describe is a world where information spreads, but beliefs and behaviors stay the same. When it comes to lasting change in what we think or the way we live, the dynamics are beliefs and behaviors are not transmitted from person to person in the simple way that a virus is. The real story of social change is more complex. When we are exposed to a new idea, our social networks guide our responses in striking and surprising ways. Drawing on deep-yet-accessible research and fascinating examples from the spread of coronavirus to the success of the Black Lives Matter movement, the failure of Google+, and the rise of political polarization, Change presents groundbreaking and paradigm-shifting new science for understanding what drives change, and how we can change the world around us.}, language = {English}, publisher = {Little, Brown Spark}, author = {Centola, Damon}, year = {2021}, } @book{jarke_co-creating_2021, series = {Public {Administration} and {Information} {Technology}}, title = {Co-creating {Digital} {Public} {Services} for an {Ageing} {Society}: {Evidence} for {User}-centric {Design}}, isbn = {978-3-030-52872-0}, shorttitle = {Co-creating {Digital} {Public} {Services} for an {Ageing} {Society}}, url = {https://www.springer.com/gp/book/9783030528720}, abstract = {This open access book attends to the co-creation of digital public services for ageing societies. Increasingly public services are provided in digital form; their uptake however remains well below expectations. In particular, amongst older adults the need for public services is high, while at the same time the uptake of digital services is lower than the population average. One of the reasons is that many digital public services (or e-services) do not respond well to the life worlds, use contexts and use practices of its target audiences. This book argues that when older adults are involved in the process of identifying, conceptualising, and designing digital public services, these services become more relevant and meaningful.The book describes and compares three co-creation projects that were conducted in two European cities, Bremen and Zaragoza, as part of a larger EU-funded innovation project. The first part of the book traces the origins of co-creation to three distinct domains, in which co-creation has become an equally important approach with different understandings of what it is and entails: (1) the co-production of public services, (2) the co-design of information systems and (3) the civic use of open data. The second part of the book analyses how decisions about a co-creation project’s governance structure, its scope of action, its choice of methods, its alignment with strategic policies and its embedding in existing public information infrastructures impact on the process and its results. The final part of the book identifies key challenges to co-creation and provides a more general assessment of what co-creation may achieve, where the most promising areas of application may be and where it probably does not match with the contingent requirements of digital public services. Contributing to current discourses on digital citizenship in ageing societies and user-centric design, this book is useful for researchers and practitioners interested in co-creation, public sector innovation, open government, ageing and digital technologies, citizen engagement and civic participation in socio-technical innovation.}, language = {en}, urldate = {2020-09-23}, publisher = {Springer International Publishing}, author = {Jarke, Juliane}, year = {2021}, doi = {10.1007/978-3-030-52873-7}, } @book{davis_how_2020, address = {Cambridge, MA}, title = {How {Artifacts} {Afford}: {The} {Power} and {Politics} of {Everyday} {Things}}, isbn = {978-0-262-04411-0}, shorttitle = {How {Artifacts} {Afford}}, url = {https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262044110/how-artifacts-afford/}, abstract = {Technologies are intrinsically social. They reflect human values and affect human behavior. The social dynamics of technology materialize through design features that shape how a technology functions and to what effect. The shaping effects of technology are represented in scholarly fields by the concept of “affordances.” Affordances are the ways design features enable and constrain user engagement and social action. This has been a central construct for designers and technology theorists since foundational statements on the topic from JJ Gibson and Don Norman in the 1970s and 80s. With the rise of digitization and widespread automation, “affordance” has entered common parlance and resurged within academic discourse and debate. Davis provides a conceptual update on affordance theory along with a cogent scaffold that shifts the orienting question from what technologies afford, to how technologies afford, for whom, and under what circumstances? “How Artifacts Afford” introduces the mechanisms and conditions framework of affordances in which technologies request, demand, encourage, discourage, refuse, and allow social action, varying across subjects and circumstances. Underlying this mechanisms and conditions framework is a sharp focus on the politics and power encoded in sociotechnical systems. In this timely theoretical reboot, Davis brings clarity to the affordance concept, situates the concept within a broader history of technology studies, and demonstrates how the mechanisms and conditions framework can serve as a transferrable tool of inquiry, critique, and (re)design.}, language = {English}, publisher = {MIT Press}, author = {Davis, Jenny L.}, month = aug, year = {2020}, } @book{scoones_politics_2020, title = {The {Politics} of {Uncertainty} : {Challenges} of {Transformation}}, isbn = {978-1-00-302384-5}, shorttitle = {The {Politics} of {Uncertainty}}, url = {https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/e/9781003023845}, abstract = {Why is uncertainty so important to politics today? To explore the underlying reasons, issues and challenges, this book’s chapters address finance and banking,}, language = {en}, urldate = {2020-10-15}, publisher = {Routledge}, author = {Scoones, Ian and Stirling, Andy and Stirling, Andy}, month = jul, year = {2020}, doi = {10.4324/9781003023845}, } @book{oecd_innovation_2020, series = {The {Development} {Dimension}}, title = {Innovation for {Development} {Impact}: {Lessons} from the {OECD} {Development} {Assistance} {Committee}}, isbn = {978-92-64-84945-7 978-92-64-32157-1 978-92-64-41178-4 978-92-64-79893-9}, shorttitle = {Innovation for {Development} {Impact}}, url = {https://www.oecd-ilibrary.org/development/innovation-for-development-impact_a9be77b3-en}, abstract = {The development co-operation community needs to innovate to meet the global challenges ahead. Although it has an established track record for innovating partnerships, funding instruments and technologies, they are not enough to deliver the Sustainable Development Goals. This report synthesises the lessons emerging from an OECD Development Assistance Committee peer learning exercise on how innovation efforts can be strengthened, individually and collectively, to achieve the 2030 Agenda. The report is organised around three blocks – strategy, management and culture; organisation and collaboration; and, the innovation process – and provides recommendations on how innovation can best benefit poor and vulnerable people around the world.}, language = {en}, urldate = {2020-08-14}, publisher = {OECD}, author = {{OECD}}, month = jun, year = {2020}, doi = {10.1787/a9be77b3-en}, } @book{sidel_thinking_2020, address = {Pasig City}, title = {Thinking and {Working} {Politically} in development - {Coalitions} for {Change} in {The} {Philippines}}, url = {https://asiafoundation.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/Thinking-and-Working-Politically-in-Development_Coalitions-for-Change-in-the-Philippines_Faustino_Sidel.pdf}, abstract = {The Asia Foundation and the Australian Embassy in the Philippines today released a new publication, Thinking and Working Politically in Development: Coalitions for Change in the Philippines. Written by London School of Economics and Political Science Professor John T. Sidel and The Asia Foundation’s Jaime Faustino, the book examines the first phase of the Coalitions for Change program (2012-2018) and the contributions to key development policy reforms in the Philippines. The book is a rigorous treatment of the Coalitions for Change program’s transformative policy reforms—alongside lessons from its failures—across diverse policy arenas and in a wide variety of cities and provinces. The chapters are organized thematically: excise tax reform (Chapter 2), land governance reform (Chapter 3), education (Chapter 4), electoral reform (Chapter 5), disaster risk reduction and management (Chapter 6), and subnational governance reform and conflict resolution in Mindanao (Chapter 7). The co-authors together combine an independent, academic perspective on the program’s impacts (Sidel) with a front-row view of doing policy reform in the Philippines – both its political and technical dimensions (Faustino). Based on the empirical research and comparative analysis undertaken by the authors, the book articulates – and substantiates – a strong set of arguments that help to explain the program’s mixed pattern of achievements and disappointments. Overall, the book concludes that the seven-year program achieved significant and sustainable impact using problem-driven, adaptive, and iterative approaches to developmental change. The authors assert the program was at the forefront of notable development approaches: aid effectiveness and development around thinking and working politically, doing development differently, and adaptive programming. Graham Teskey, an early advocate of ‘thinking and working politically’ explores how development agencies can replicate the conditions for success in his Afterword. With illustrative case studies and analyses, the book provides valuable lessons for policymakers, scholars, bilateral agencies, think-tanks, and anyone interested in successfully maneuvering the shifting dimensions of development in the Philippines and elsewhere.}, urldate = {2020-10-15}, publisher = {The Asia Foundation}, author = {Sidel, John T. and Faustino, Jaime}, collaborator = {Teskey, Graham}, month = jan, year = {2020}, } @book{faulkner_how_2020, title = {How to design and plan public engagement processes: a handbook}, abstract = {There is a growing hunger for more, and more meaningful, citizen participation in decisions that affect our lives. Across the world, calls for open government, workplace democracy, community empowerment are gaining support, as are innovative developments in deliberative democracy. The current COVID-19 pandemic makes these calls more pressing than ever, given the deepening inequalities it has caused and the complex challenges of building a progressive road out of the crisis. So, now more than ever we need people capable of designing and planning public engagement processes that are empowering and worthwhile. Experienced practitioners know that, without considerable forethought, care and preparation, public engagement processes risk achieving little or, worse, alienating people so that they never engage (with you or anyone else) again. This Handbook seeks to deepen people’s skills in designing and planning effective public engagement processes, by providing a structured four-stage framework for tackling the task. It draws on the authors’ extensive practical experience of training and working with public engagement facilitators across sectors as well as international expertise. You may be a citizen, a community or public engagement practitioner, an elected or government representative, or some other sponsoring organisation or stakeholder. You may be new to this kind of work or experienced but wanting to review and improve your practice. Or you may be studying public participation in democratic processes. Wherever you are coming from, and whatever type of public engagement you are doing, this Handbook promises to be a useful addition to your toolbox.}, language = {en}, publisher = {What Works Scotland}, author = {Faulkner, Wendy and Bynner, Claire}, year = {2020}, } @book{vaessen_evaluation_2020, title = {Evaluation of {International} {Development} {Interventions}: {An} {Overview} of {Approaches} and {Methods}}, shorttitle = {Evaluation of {International} {Development} {Interventions}}, url = {http://elibrary.worldbank.org/doi/book/10.1596/34962}, abstract = {This guide provides an introductory overview of a range of methods that have been selected for their actual and potential use in the field of international development evaluation. For each method, a detailed guidance note presents the method’s main features and procedural steps, key advantages and disadvantages, as well as its applica­bility. Each guidance note includes references for relevant background readings (basic and advanced) as well as references to other additional resources of interest. Both the choice of approaches and methods and the associated guidance are by no means definitive. IEG plans to periodically update the guide as evaluation prac­tices evolve.}, language = {en}, urldate = {2021-08-05}, publisher = {World Bank}, author = {Vaessen, Jos and Lemire, Sebastian and Befani, Barbara}, month = nov, year = {2020}, doi = {10.1596/34962}, } @book{elstub_handbook_2019, title = {Handbook of {Democratic} {Innovation} and {Governance}}, isbn = {978-1-78643-386-2}, abstract = {Democratic innovations are proliferating in politics, governance, policy, and public administration. These new processes of public participation are reimagining the relationship between citizens and institutions. This Handbook advances understanding of democratic innovations, in theory and practice, by critically reviewing their importance throughout the world. The overarching themes are a focus on citizens and their relationship to these innovations, and the resulting effects on political equality. The Handbook therefore offers a definitive overview of existing research on democratic innovations, while also setting the agenda for future research and practice.}, language = {en}, publisher = {Edward Elgar Publishing}, author = {Elstub, Stephen and Escobar, Oliver}, month = dec, year = {2019}, note = {Google-Books-ID: P7bEDwAAQBAJ}, keywords = {Democracy, Public Affairs \& Administration}, } @book{mcgee_power_2019, address = {London ; New York}, title = {Power, {Empowerment} and {Social} {Change}}, isbn = {978-1-138-57531-8}, url = {https://www.routledge.com/Power-Empowerment-and-Social-Change-1st-Edition/McGee-Pettit/p/book/9781138575318}, abstract = {This book uncovers how power operates around the world, and how it can be resisted or transformed through empowered collective action and social leadership. The stakes have never been higher. Recent years have seen a rapid escalation of inequalities, the rise of new global powers and corporate interests, increasing impunity of human rights violations, suppression of civil society, and a re-shaping of democratic processes by post-truth, populist and nationalist politics. Rather than looking at power through the lenses of agency or structure alone, this book views power and empowerment as complex and multidimensional societal processes, defined by pervasive social norms, conditions, constraints and opportunities. Bridging theory and practice, the book explores real-world applications using a selection of frameworks, tools, case studies, examples, resources and reflections from experience to support actors to analyse their positioning and align themselves with progressive social forces. Compiled with social change practitioners, students and scholars in mind, Power, Empowerment and Social Change is the perfect volume for anyone involved in politics, international development, sociology, human rights and environmental justice who is looking for fresh insights for transforming power in favour of relatively less powerful people.}, language = {Inglés}, editor = {McGee, Rosemary and Pettit, Jethro}, month = nov, year = {2019}, } @book{burt_who_2019, title = {Who {Owns} {Poverty}?}, isbn = {978-1-912157-12-9}, abstract = {This is the story of the one question about global poverty we never thought to ask: who owns it? It's a question with an unexpected answer, one that challenges everything that we thought we knew about what poverty is, and what we can do about it. This is a story of a powerful data-driven methodology being used in a dozen countries across 5 continents. It's a new approach that puts poor families in charge of defining and diagnosing their own unique, multidimensional poverty—who by owning the problem, own the solution. This book is for all the governments, development NGOs, charities, dreamers, thinkers, doers and leaders who are frustrated with limiting their aspirations to reducing poverty, or alleviating its effects—and the lack of progress we face in doing either. This is a book about unleashing trapped energy within poor families to do the unthinkable: eliminate global poverty once and for all.}, language = {English}, publisher = {Red Press Ltd}, author = {Burt, Martin}, month = sep, year = {2019}, } @book{yago_bermejo_future_2019, address = {Madrid}, title = {Future {Democracies} - {Laboratory} of {Collective} {Intelligence} for {Participatory} {Democracy}}, copyright = {https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/}, url = {http://archive.org/details/FutureDemocraciesLCPD}, abstract = {The Laboratory of Collective Intelligence for Participatory Democracy (2016-2019) is a project that arose out of Medialab Prado in coordination with the Government Area of Citizen Participation, Transparency and Open Government of the city of Madrid. Its work has been very connected with the analysis, reflection and innovation found on the digital participation platform Decide Madrid. The project has also organised many workshops and conferences that have brought together hundreds of people from the world of participatory democracy. This publication summarises the project’s core working principles as well as the open activities it has hosted over the course of these three years. These pilot experiences offer a possible vision of the future of democratic governance.}, language = {eng}, urldate = {2020-11-17}, publisher = {MediaLab Prado}, editor = {{Yago Bermejo}}, month = may, year = {2019}, keywords = {Democracy}, } @book{mclean_scaling_2019, title = {Scaling {Impact}: {Innovation} for the {Public} {Good}}, isbn = {978-0-429-88638-6}, shorttitle = {Scaling {Impact}}, url = {https://www.idrc.ca/en/book/scaling-impact-innovation-public-good}, abstract = {Scaling Impact introduces a new and practical approach to scaling the positive impacts of research and innovation. Inspired by leading scientific and entrepreneurial innovators from across Africa, Asia, the Caribbean, Latin America, and the Middle East, this book presents a synthesis of unrivalled diversity and grounded ingenuity. The result is a different perspective on how to achieve impact that matters, and an important challenge to the predominant more-is-better paradigm of scaling. For organisations and individuals working to change the world for the better, scaling impact is a common goal and a well-founded aim. The world is changing rapidly, and seemingly intractable problems like environmental degradation or accelerating inequality press us to do better for each other and our environment as a global community. Challenges like these appear to demand a significant scale of action, and here the authors argue that a more creative and critical approach to scaling is both possible and essential. To encourage uptake and co-development, the authors present actionable principles that can help organisations and innovators design, manage, and evaluate scaling strategies. Scaling Impact is essential reading for development and innovation practitioners and professionals, but also for researchers, students, evaluators, and policymakers with a desire to spark meaningful change.}, language = {en}, publisher = {Routledge}, author = {McLean, Robert and Gargani, John}, month = may, year = {2019}, note = {Google-Books-ID: 9X6YDwAAQBAJ}, keywords = {Developing \& Emerging Countries}, } @book{cooley_scale_2019, title = {Scale {Up} {Sourcebook}}, abstract = {The Scale Up Sourcebook is informed and inspired by the September 2018 conference, Innovations in Agriculture: Scaling Up to Reach Millions, organized by Purdue University, in partnership with the African Development Bank. The Sourcebook consolidates, extends, and disseminates some of the scaling insights presented at the Purdue conference. It is intended as an easy-to-use guidebook targeted to a broad and diverse audience of stakeholders associated with scaling agricultural technologies and innovations to meet the needs of the world’s poor. The Sourcebook has nine chapters: designing with scale in mind; assessing scalability; using commercial markets to drive scaling; financing the transition to scale; creating an enabling environment for scale; tailoring metrics, monitoring, and evaluation to support sustainable outcomes at scale; and the critical role of intermediary and donor organizations. The Sourcebook provides guidance, tips, and examples, along with links and references to additional resources on scale up.}, language = {en}, publisher = {Purdue University}, author = {Cooley, Larry and Howard, Julie}, year = {2019}, } @book{leurs_playbook_2018, address = {London}, title = {Playbook for innovation learning. 35 diagrams to support talking and thinking about learning for innovation}, url = {http://states-of-change.org/assets/downloads/nesta_playbook_for_innovation_learning.pdf}, urldate = {2018-10-03}, publisher = {Nesta}, author = {Leurs, Bas and Roberts, Isobel}, month = apr, year = {2018}, } @book{nesta_skills_2018, address = {London}, title = {Skills, atitudes and behaviours that fuel public innovation - a guide to getting the most from {Nesta}'s {Competency} {Framework} for {Experimenting} and {Public} {Problem} {Solving}}, url = {http://states-of-change.org/assets/downloads/nesta_playbook_for_innovation_learning.pdf}, urldate = {2018-10-03}, publisher = {Nesta}, author = {Nesta}, month = apr, year = {2018}, } @book{james_managing_2018, title = {Managing {Humanitarian} {Innovation}: {The} cutting edge of aid}, isbn = {978-1-85339-954-1}, shorttitle = {Managing {Humanitarian} {Innovation}}, abstract = {The challenges facing humanitarian logistics are huge. Refugee camps present enormously challenging environments in which sudden spikes in demand, difficult to access locations, disruptions due to conflict or disasters, as well as normal supply chain problems are commonplace. This means that orders for medical and other supplies can take weeks and sometimes months to fulfil, severely impeding humanitarian operations. There is also a lack of or slow adoption of technology routinely used elsewhere. In addition, humanitarian logistics are also expensive. When customs clearance, transportation, storage, middlemen and administration are added in, the costs of basic items are often exorbitant. Managing Humanitarian Innovation presents a new approach that is beginning to transform the way humanitarian logistics are conducted. Innovation in logistics includes disrupting and improving supply chains through the use of technology, especially 3D printers, and engaging people to manage this approach. The book discusses what innovation is, and strategies for supporting it; it describes practical innovations and how they have been applied; and it outlines how innovation labs can be run. Finally it covers how to fund innovation and it suggests how humanitarian innovation might develop in the future. This book brings together the real experience of practitioners who have made innovation work. It is a collaborative work written by and for the community of people involved in humanitarian innovation, in particular in the making and manufacturing of humanitarian supplies. The book is full of practical and actionable points of value to the humanitarian community. Managing Humanitarian Innovation is essential reading for humanitarian practitioners as well as volunteers and others involved in humanitarian supplies provision. It is equally helpful to thought leaders, policy makers and educators.}, language = {English}, publisher = {Practical Action Publishing}, editor = {James, Eric and Taylor, Abigail}, month = mar, year = {2018}, } @book{yanguas_why_2018, title = {Why {We} {Lie} {About} {Aid}: {Development} and the {Messy} {Politics} of {Change}}, isbn = {978-1-78360-933-8}, shorttitle = {Why {We} {Lie} {About} {Aid}}, abstract = {Foreign aid is about charity. International development is about technical fixes. At least that is what we, as donor publics, are constantly told. The result is a highly dysfunctional aid system which mistakes short-term results for long-term transformation and gets attacked across the political spectrum, with the right claiming we spend too much, and the left that we don't spend enough. The reality, as Yanguas argues in this highly provocative book, is that aid isn't – or at least shouldn't be – about levels of spending, nor interventions shackled to vague notions of ‘accountability’ and ‘ownership’. Instead, a different approach is possible, one that acknowledges aid as being about struggle, about taking sides, about politics. It is an approach that has been quietly applied by innovative development practitioners around the world, providing political coverage for local reformers to open up spaces for change. Drawing on a variety of convention-defying stories from a variety of countries – from Britain to the US, Sierra Leone to Honduras – Yanguas provides an eye-opening account of what we really mean when we talk about aid.}, language = {English}, publisher = {Zed Books}, author = {Yanguas, Pablo}, month = feb, year = {2018}, } @book{yin_case_2018, address = {Los Angeles}, edition = {Sixth edition}, title = {Case {Study} {Research} and {Applications}: {Design} and {Methods}}, isbn = {978-1-5063-3616-9}, shorttitle = {Case {Study} {Research} and {Applications}}, url = {https://uk.sagepub.com/en-gb/eur/case-study-research-and-applications/book250150}, abstract = {Winner of the 2019 McGuffey Longevity Award from the Textbook \& Academic Authors Association (TAA) Recognized as one of the most cited methodology books in the social sciences, the Sixth Edition of Robert K. Yin′s bestselling text provides a complete portal to the world of case study research. With the integration of 11 applications in this edition, the book gives readers access to exemplary case studies drawn from a wide variety of academic and applied fields. Ultimately, Case Study Research and Applications will guide students in the successful use and application ofthe case study research method.}, language = {English}, publisher = {SAGE Publications, Inc}, author = {Yin, Dr Robert K.}, month = feb, year = {2018}, } @book{hofman_evaluating_2018, title = {Evaluating interventions that prevent or counter violent extremism: {A} practical guide}, shorttitle = {Evaluating interventions that prevent or counter violent extremism}, url = {https://www.rand.org/pubs/research_reports/RR2094.html}, language = {en}, urldate = {2019-09-17}, publisher = {RAND Corporation}, editor = {Hofman, Joanna and Sutherland, Alex}, collaborator = {Bellasio, Jacopo and Sim, Megan and Van Gorp, Anke and Cox, Kate and Ito, Kei and Baruch, Ben and Guerin, Benoit and Martin, Adam and Grand-Clement, Sarah and Janta, Barbara and Saunders, Catherine and Smith, Elta and Cochrane, Gavin and Henham, Marie-Louise}, year = {2018}, doi = {10.7249/RR2094}, } @book{campbell_global_2018, address = {Cambridge, United Kingdom New York, NY Port Melbourne, Australia}, title = {Global governance and local peace: accountability and performance in international peacebuilding}, isbn = {978-1-108-41865-2}, shorttitle = {Global governance and local peace}, abstract = {Local peacebuilding and global accountability -- The country context--Burundi from 1999 to 2014 -- Ingos in peacebuilding--globally unaccountable, locally adaptive -- International organizations in peacebuilding--globally accountable, locally constrained -- Bilateral development donors--accountable for global targets, not local change}, language = {eng}, publisher = {Cambridge University Press}, author = {Campbell, Susanna}, year = {2018}, note = {OCLC: 1048387754}, } @book{diana_chigas_adding_2018, address = {Cambridge, MA}, title = {Adding {Up} to {Peace}: {The} {Cumulative} {Impacts} of {Peace} {Initiatives}}, shorttitle = {Adding {Up} to {Peace}}, url = {https://www.cdacollaborative.org/publication/adding-peace-cumulative-impacts-peace-initiatives/}, abstract = {Adding Up to Peace: The Cumulative Impacts of Peace Initiatives aims to identify how cumulative impacts in peace practice operate at all levels, in order to provide practical lessons for policymakers, donors and practitioners to develop more effective strategies for greater progress towards peace. This book builds on CDA’s Reflecting on Peace Practice Project (RPP), launched to answer the question: What works—and what doesn’t work—in peacebuilding? It seeks to deepen our understanding of how multiple peacebuilding initiatives in a conflict zone interacted and added up (or didn’t), to result in progress towards larger societal level peace, or Peace Writ Large. The findings are a product of sixteen case studies conducted between 2007 and 2012, gathering the perceptions of both local and international stakeholders. The finalization of this book was generously funded by Humanity United. The opinions expressed are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of Humanity United or of CDA Collaborative Learning Projects.}, language = {en-US}, urldate = {2022-06-17}, publisher = {CDA Collaborative Learning Projects}, author = {{Diana Chigas} and {Peter Woodrow}}, year = {2018}, } @book{honig_navigation_2018, title = {Navigation by {Judgment}: {Why} and when {Top} {Down} {Management} of {Foreign} {Aid} {Doesn}'t {Work}}, isbn = {978-0-19-067245-4}, shorttitle = {Navigation by {Judgment}}, abstract = {Foreign aid organizations collectively spend hundreds of billions of dollars annually, with mixed results. Part of the problem in these endeavors lies in their execution. When should foreign aid organizations empower actors on the front lines of delivery to guide aid interventions, and when should distant headquarters lead? In Navigation by Judgment, Dan Honig argues that high-quality implementation of foreign aid programs often requires contextual information that cannot be seen by those in distant headquarters. Tight controls and a focus on reaching pre-set measurable targets often prevent front-line workers from using skill, local knowledge, and creativity to solve problems in ways that maximize the impact of foreign aid. Drawing on a novel database of over 14,000 discrete development projects across nine aid agencies and eight paired case studies of development projects, Honig concludes that aid agencies will often benefit from giving field agents the authority to use their own judgments to guide aid delivery. This "navigation by judgment" is particularly valuable when environments are unpredictable and when accomplishing an aid program's goals is hard to accurately measure. Highlighting a crucial obstacle for effective global aid, Navigation by Judgment shows that the management of aid projects matters for aid effectiveness.}, language = {en}, publisher = {Oxford University Press}, author = {Honig, Dan}, year = {2018}, note = {Google-Books-ID: GT5MDwAAQBAJ}, } @book{millington_indispensable_2018, title = {The {Indispensable} {Community}: {Why} {Some} {Brand} {Communities} {Thrive} {When} {Others} {Perish}}, abstract = {How to Build Bigger, Better, and More Active Online CommunitiesBuzzing Communities cuts through the fluff to offer a clear process for creating thriving online communities. This book combines a century of proven science, dozens of real-life examples, practical tips, and trusted community-building methods. This step-by-step guide includes a lifecycle for tracking your progress and a framework for managing your organization's community efforts. This Book Will Help You to Understand what the members of your community really want. Dramatically increase the number of newcomers that become regulars. Avoid the mistakes most organizations make when they try to build online communities. Develop a fantastic, user-friendly website for your members. Grow your online community to critical mass and beyond Keep members engaged and active in your community. Measure the community's return on investment and explain the benefits to your organization.}, language = {English}, publisher = {Feverbee}, author = {Millington, Richard}, year = {2018}, } @book{white_impact_2017, title = {Impact {Evaluation} of {Development} {Interventions}: {A} {Practical} {Guide}}, copyright = {http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo}, isbn = {978-92-9261-058-6 978-92-9261-059-3}, shorttitle = {Impact {Evaluation} of {Development} {Interventions}}, url = {https://www.adb.org/publications/impact-evaluation-development-interventions-practical-guide}, abstract = {This book offers guidance on the principles, methods, and practice of impact evaluation. It contains material for a range of audiences, from those who may use or manage impact evaluations to applied researchers.}, language = {en}, urldate = {2022-01-28}, publisher = {Asian Development Bank}, author = {White, Howard and Raitzer, David}, month = dec, year = {2017}, doi = {10.22617/TCS179188-2}, note = {Accepted: 2017-12-26 Last Modified: 2020-07-22T18:28+08:00}, } @book{patton_principles-focused_2017, address = {New York}, edition = {1st edition}, title = {Principles-{Focused} {Evaluation}: {The} {GUIDE}}, isbn = {978-1-4625-3182-0}, shorttitle = {Principles-{Focused} {Evaluation}}, url = {https://www.guilford.com/books/Principles-Focused-Evaluation/Michael-Quinn-Patton/9781462531820}, abstract = {How can programs and organizations ensure they are adhering to core principles--and assess whether doing so is yielding desired results? From evaluation pioneer Michael Quinn Patton, this book introduces the principles-focused evaluation (P-FE) approach and demonstrates its relevance and application in a range of settings. Patton explains why principles matter for program development and evaluation and how they can serve as a rudder to navigate the uncertainties, turbulence, and emergent challenges of complex dynamic environments. In-depth exemplars illustrate how the unique GUIDE framework is used to determine whether principles provide meaningful guidance (G) and are useful (U), inspiring (I), developmentally adaptable (D), and evaluable (E). User-friendly features include rubrics, a P-FE checklist, firsthand reflections and examples from experienced P-FE practitioners, sidebars and summary tables, and end-of-chapter application exercises.}, language = {English}, publisher = {Guilford Press}, author = {Patton, Michael Quinn}, month = oct, year = {2017}, } @book{dced_2017_2017, title = {The 2017 {Reader} on {Results} {Measurement}. {An} introduction to the {DCED} {Standard}}, url = {https://www.enterprise-development.org/wp-content/uploads/DCED_Reader_RM.pdf}, urldate = {2017-09-26}, publisher = {DCED}, author = {DCED}, month = sep, year = {2017}, } @book{edmondson_extreme_2017, address = {United Kingdom ; North America}, title = {Extreme {Teaming}: {Lessons} in {Complex}, {Cross}-{Sector} {Leadership}}, isbn = {978-1-78635-450-1}, shorttitle = {Extreme {Teaming}}, abstract = {Extreme Teaming Lessons in Complex, Cross-Sector Leadership Today’s global enterprises increasingly involve collaborative work by teams of experts operating across different professions, organizations, and industries. Extreme Teaming provides new insights into the world of complex, cross industry projects and the ways they must be managed. Leading experts Amy Edmondson and Jean-François Harvey analyze contemporary cases that expose the complex demands of cross-boundary collaboration on management, and inform our understanding of teams. Containing powerful insights and practical guidelines that allow managers to bridge professional divides and organizational boundaries in order to work together effectively, this is a new exploration of the challenges involved in today’s global enterprises. The authors demonstrate that the work done in the modern organization is less and less about looking inward and creating strong teams inside the company, and more about teaming across boundaries – that often are in flux. Extreme Teaming is a must-read book for all courses related to leading open innovation; teamwork and collaboration; project management; and cross-boundary work.}, language = {English}, publisher = {Emerald Group Publishing Limited}, author = {Edmondson, Amy C. and Harvey, Jean-Francois}, month = aug, year = {2017}, } @book{oecd_systems_2017, title = {Systems {Approaches} to {Public} {Sector} {Challenges}: {Working} with {Change}}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1787/9789264279865-en}, publisher = {OECD}, author = {{OECD}}, month = aug, year = {2017}, } @book{chambers_can_2017, address = {Rugby, UK}, title = {Can we know better? {Reflections} for {Development}}, isbn = {978-1-85339-945-9 978-1-78044-944-9}, shorttitle = {Can {We} {Know} {Better}?}, url = {http://www.developmentbookshelf.com/doi/book/10.3362/9781780449449}, abstract = {This book is intended for all who are committed to human wellbeing and who want to make our world fairer, safer and more fulfilling for everyone, especially those who are 'last'. It argues that to do better we need to know better. It provides evidence that what we believe we know in international development is often distorted or unbalanced by errors, myths, biases and blind spots. Undue weight has been attached to standardised methodologies such as randomized control trials, systematic reviews, and competitive bidding: these are shown to have huge transaction costs which are rarely if ever recognized in their enormity. Robert Chambers contrasts a Newtonian paradigm in which the world is seen and understood as controllable with a paradigm of complexity which recognizes that the real world of social processes and power relations is messy and unpredictable. To confront the challenges of complex and emergent realities requires a revolutionary new professionalism. This is underpinned by a new combination of canons of rigour expressed through eclectic methodological pluralism and participatory approaches which reverse and transform power relations. Promising developments include rapid innovations in participatory ICTs, participatory statistics, and the Reality Check Approach with its up-to-date and rigorously grounded insights. Fundamental to the new professionalism, in every country and context, are reflexivity, facilitation, groundtruthing, and personal mindsets, behaviour, attitudes, empathy and love. Robert Chambers surveys the past world of international development, and his own past views, with an honest and critical eye, and then launches into the world of complexity with a buoyant enthusiasm. He draws on almost six decades of experience in varied roles in Africa, South Asia and elsewhere as practitioner, trainer, manager, teacher, evaluator and field researcher, also working in UNHCR and the Ford Foundation. He is a Research Associate and Emeritus Professor at the Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex, his base for many years. Can We Know Better? is essential reading for researchers and students of development, for policy makers and evaluators, and for all those working towards the better world of the Sustainable Development Goals.}, language = {en}, urldate = {2017-09-08}, publisher = {Practical Action}, author = {Chambers, Robert}, month = aug, year = {2017}, doi = {10.3362/9781780449449}, } @book{lent_patterning_2017, address = {Amherst, New York}, title = {The {Patterning} {Instinct}: {A} {Cultural} {History} of {Humanity}'s {Search} for {Meaning}}, isbn = {978-1-63388-293-5}, shorttitle = {The {Patterning} {Instinct}}, abstract = {This fresh perspective on crucial questions of history identifies the root metaphors that cultures have used to construct meaning in their world. It offers a glimpse into the minds of a vast range of different peoples: early hunter-gatherers and farmers, ancient Egyptians, traditional Chinese sages, the founders of Christianity, trail-blazers of the Scientific Revolution, and those who constructed our modern consumer society. Taking the reader on an archaeological exploration of the mind, the author, an entrepreneur and sustainability leader, uses recent findings in cognitive science and systems theory to reveal the hidden layers of values that form today's cultural norms. Uprooting the tired cliches of the science-religion debate, he shows how medieval Christian rationalism acted as an incubator for scientific thought, which in turn shaped our modern vision of the conquest of nature. The author probes our current crisis of unsustainability and argues that it is not an inevitable result of human nature, but is culturally driven: a product of particular mental patterns that could conceivably be reshaped. By shining a light on our possible futures, the book foresees a coming struggle between two contrasting views of humanity: one driving to a technological endgame of artificially enhanced humans, the other enabling a sustainable future arising from our intrinsic connectedness with each other and the natural world. This struggle, it concludes, is one in which each of us will play a role through the meaning we choose to forge from the lives we lead.}, language = {English}, publisher = {Prometheus Books}, author = {Lent, Jeremy}, month = may, year = {2017}, } @book{lentfer_smart_2017, title = {Smart {Risks}: {How} small grants are helping to solve some of the world's biggest problems}, isbn = {978-1-85339-930-5}, shorttitle = {Smart {Risks}}, abstract = {As never before, international aid is in the hands of ordinary people. Concerned citizens in wealthy countries are starting philanthropy groups, joining giving circles, and travelling internationally to lend support. Yet, they are torn between the feelings that 'something' must be done about global poverty and that foreign assistance is creating dependency and fueling corruption overseas.A growing community of international small grant-makers know how to find and fund effective grassroots initiatives. Compared to donor-controlled, large-scale, project-based international aid funding, small grant-makers use the concept of 'smart risks' to build upon existing human and social capital and to make a lasting changes in people's lives. Smart Risks brings together the wisdom of experts with wide-ranging experience within the development sector. Their contributions focus on five guiding question, such as 'who is a smart risk?' and 'what is your role in smart risks?' They include case studies, personal stories of lessons learned over time, provocative insights on power and privilege, and practical frameworks for choosing, investing in, and measuring the impact of grassroots organizations and movements. This book is essential reading for all those who wonder how their donations and work can make a difference in developing countries - from aid agency staff and policy makers, to globally engaged individuals.}, language = {English}, publisher = {Practical Action Publishing}, editor = {Lentfer, Jennifer and Cothran, Tanya}, month = apr, year = {2017}, } @book{georgalakis_social_2017, address = {Brighton}, title = {The {Social} {Realities} of {Knowledge} for {Development}}, shorttitle = {The {Social} {Realities} of {Knowledge} for {Development}}, url = {http://www.ids.ac.uk/publication/the-social-realities-of-knowledge-for-development-sharing-lessons-of-improving-development-processes-with-evidence}, abstract = {This edited collection of peer-reviewed papers explores critical challenges faced by organisations and individuals involved in evidence-informed development through a diverse set of case studies and t...}, urldate = {2017-04-22}, publisher = {IDS}, editor = {Georgalakis, James and Jessani, Nasreen and Oronje, Rose and Ramalingam, Ben}, month = mar, year = {2017}, } @book{gothelf_sense_2017, address = {Boston}, title = {Sense and {Respond}: {How} {Successful} {Organizations} {Listen} to {Customers} and {Create} {New} {Products} {Continuously}}, isbn = {978-1-63369-188-9}, shorttitle = {Sense and {Respond}}, abstract = {The End of Assembly Line ManagementWe’re in the midst of a revolution. Quantum leaps in technology are enabling organizations to observe and measure people’s behavior in real time, communicate internally at extraordinary speed, and innovate continuously. These new, software-driven technologies are transforming the way companies interact with their customers, employees, and other stakeholders.This is no mere tech issue. The transformation requires a complete rethinking of the way we organize and manage work. And, as software becomes ever more integrated into every product and service, making this big shift is quickly becoming the key operational challenge for businesses of all kinds. We need a management model that doesn’t merely account for, but actually embraces, continuous change. Yet the truth is, most organizations continue to rely on outmoded, industrial-era operational models. They structure their teams, manage their people, and evolve their organizational cultures the way they always have.Now, organizations are emerging, and thriving, based on their capacity to sense and respond instantly to customer and employee behaviors. In Sense and Respond, Jeff Gothelf and Josh Seiden, leading tech experts and founders of the global Lean UX movement, vividly show how these companies operate, highlighting the new mindset and skills needed to lead and manage them—and to continuously innovate within them.In illuminating and instructive business examples, you’ll see organizations with distinctively new operating principles: shifting from managing outputs to what the authors call “outcome-focused management”; forming self-guided teams that can read and react to a fast-changing environment; creating a learning-all-the-time culture that can understand and respond to new customer behaviors and the data they generate; and finally, developing in everyone at the company the new universal skills of customer listening, assessment, and response.This engaging and practical book provides the crucial new operational and management model to help you and your organization win in a world of continuous change.}, language = {English}, publisher = {Harvard Business Review Press}, author = {Gothelf, Jeff and Seiden, Josh}, month = feb, year = {2017}, } @book{gothelf_lean_2017, title = {Lean vs {Agile} vs {Design} {Thinking}: {What} you really need to know to build high-performing digital product teams}, isbn = {978-1-5411-4003-5}, shorttitle = {Lean vs {Agile} vs {Design} {Thinking}}, abstract = {As companies evolve to adopt, integrate and leverage software as the defining element of their success in the 21st century, a rash of processes and methodologies are vying for their product teams' attention. In the worst of cases, each discipline on these teams -- product management, design and software engineering -- learn a different model. This short, tactical book reconciles the perceived differences in Lean Startup, Design Thinking and Agile software development by focusing not on rituals and practices but on the values that underpin all 3 methods.}, language = {English}, publisher = {CreateSpace}, author = {Gothelf, Jeff}, month = jan, year = {2017}, } @book{andrews_building_2017, address = {Oxford}, title = {Building {State} {Capability}: {Evidence}, {Analysis}, {Action}}, shorttitle = {Building {State} {Capability}}, url = {http://bsc.cid.harvard.edu/files/bsc/files/bsc_book.pdf}, abstract = {This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence. It is free to read at Oxford Scholarship Online and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations. Governments play a major role in the development process, and constantly introduce reforms and policies to achieve developmental objectives. Many of these interventions have limited impact, however; schools get built but children don't learn, IT systems areintroduced but not used, plans are written but not implemented. These achievement deficiencies reveal gaps in capabilities, and weaknesses in the process of building state capability.This book addresses these weaknesses and gaps. It starts by providing evidence of the capability shortfalls that currently exist in many countries, showing that many governments lack basic capacities even after decades of reforms and capacity building efforts. The book then analyses this evidence, identifying capability traps that hold many governments back - particularly related to isomorphic mimicry (where governments copy best practice solutions from other countries that make them look morecapable even if they are not more capable) and premature load bearing (where governments adopt new mechanisms that they cannot actually make work, given weak extant capacities). The book then describes a process that governments can use to escape these capability traps. Called PDIA (problem driveniterative adaptation), this process empowers people working in governments to find and fit solutions to the problems they face. The discussion about this process is structured in a practical manner so that readers can actually apply tools and ideas to the capability challenges they face in their own contexts. These applications will help readers devise policies and reforms that have more impact than those of the past.}, language = {English}, urldate = {2017-04-18}, publisher = {Oxford University Press}, author = {Andrews, Matt and Pritchett, Lant and Woolcock, Michael}, month = jan, year = {2017}, keywords = {IMPORTANT}, } @book{helmus_rand_2017, title = {{RAND} {Program} {Evaluation} {Toolkit} for {Countering} {Violent} {Extremism}}, isbn = {978-0-8330-9724-8}, url = {http://www.rand.org/pubs/tools/TL243.html}, language = {en}, urldate = {2019-09-17}, publisher = {RAND Corporation}, author = {Helmus, Todd and Matthews, Miriam and Ramchand, Rajeev and Beaghley, Sina and Stebbins, David and Kadlec, Amanda and Brown, Michael and Kofner, Aaron and Acosta, Joie}, year = {2017}, doi = {10.7249/TL243}, } @book{kirsch_transformation_2017, address = {Baden-Baden}, edition = {1. Auflage}, title = {Transformation, politics and implementation: smart implementation in governance programs}, isbn = {978-3-8452-8051-6 978-3-8487-3738-3}, shorttitle = {Transformation, politics and implementation}, url = {http://frankfurter-gruppe.de/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/Smart-Implementation-E-Book.pdf}, abstract = {Working in environments characterised by a high degree of uncertainty, uncontrollability and unpredictability, development agents try to organise complex realities into manageable units. What principles influence the decision on adequate approaches and necessary steps? Through theoretical considerations and nine case studies, the GIZ traces implementation processes and identifies underlying guiding principles which provide the flexibility and adaptability that is necessary for acting in complex contexts. Main findings show that an adaptive and reflexive management structure is crucial for successful implementation. Quick iteration and tight feedback loops facilitate adaptation and reorientation. Contextsensitive knowledge and constant monitoring create a space for learning and innovation. A joint vision for the future which is used for orientation purposes and can be modified according to new findings and developments fosters fruitful cooperation.}, language = {eng}, publisher = {Nomos}, editor = {Kirsch, Renate and Siehl, Elke and Stockmayer, Albrecht}, year = {2017}, note = {OCLC: 1000398466}, } @book{parkhurst_politics_2017, title = {The {Politics} of {Evidence}: {From} {Evidence}-based {Policy} to the {Good} {Governance} of {Evidence}}, isbn = {978-1-317-38087-0}, shorttitle = {The {Politics} of {Evidence} ({Open} {Access})}, url = {https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/31002}, abstract = {The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.tandfebooks.com/, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 3.0 license. There has been an enormous increase in interest in the use of evidence for public policymaking, but the vast majority of work on the subject has failed to engage with the political nature of decision making and how this influences the ways in which evidence will be used (or misused) within political areas. This book provides new insights into the nature of political bias with regards to evidence and critically considers what an ‘improved’ use of evidence would look like from a policymaking perspective. Part I describes the great potential for evidence to help achieve social goals, as well as the challenges raised by the political nature of policymaking. It explores the concern of evidence advocates that political interests drive the misuse or manipulation of evidence, as well as counter-concerns of critical policy scholars about how appeals to ‘evidence-based policy’ can depoliticise political debates. Both concerns reflect forms of bias – the first representing technical bias, whereby evidence use violates principles of scientific best practice, and the second representing issue bias in how appeals to evidence can shift political debates to particular questions or marginalise policy-relevant social concerns. Part II then draws on the fields of policy studies and cognitive psychology to understand the origins and mechanisms of both forms of bias in relation to political interests and values. It illustrates how such biases are not only common, but can be much more predictable once we recognise their origins and manifestations in policy arenas. Finally, Part III discusses ways to move forward for those seeking to improve the use of evidence in public policymaking. It explores what constitutes ‘good evidence for policy’, as well as the ‘good use of evidence’ within policy processes, and considers how to build evidence-advisory institutions that embed key principles of both scientific good practice and democratic representation. Taken as a whole, the approach promoted is termed the ‘good governance of evidence’ – a concept that represents the use of rigorous, systematic and technically valid pieces of evidence within decision-making processes that are representative of, and accountable to, populations served.}, language = {en}, publisher = {Taylor \& Francis}, author = {Parkhurst, Justin}, year = {2017}, note = {Google-Books-ID: RTQlDwAAQBAJ}, keywords = {Public policy, Social Policy, Social Services \& Welfare}, } @book{parkhurst_politics_2017, address = {London New York}, series = {Routledge studies in governance and public policy}, title = {The politics of evidence: from evidence-based policy to the good governance of evidence}, isbn = {978-1-138-93940-0 978-1-315-67500-8}, shorttitle = {The politics of evidence}, abstract = {Introduction -- Evidence-based policymaking : an important first step, and the need to take the next -- Bias and the politics of evidence -- The overt politics of evidence : bias and the pursuit of political interests -- The subtle politics of evidence - the cognitive-political origins of bias -- What is "good evidence for policy"? From hierarchies to appropriate evidence -- What is the "good use of evidence" for policy? -- From evidence-based policy to the good governance of evidence}, language = {en}, number = {28}, publisher = {Routledge, Taylor \& Francis Group}, author = {Parkhurst, Justin O.}, year = {2017}, note = {OCLC: 1004900516}, } @book{world_bank_world_2017, address = {Washington DC}, title = {World {Development} {Report} 2017: {Governance} and the {Law}}, url = {http://www.worldbank.org/en/publication/wdr2017}, urldate = {2016-08-05}, publisher = {The World Bank}, author = {World Bank}, year = {2017}, } @book{green_how_2016, address = {New York}, title = {How {Change} {Happens}}, isbn = {978-0-19-878539-2}, abstract = {Human society is full of would-be 'change agents', a restless mix of campaigners, lobbyists, and officials, both individuals and organizations, set on transforming the world. They want to improve public services, reform laws and regulations, guarantee human rights, get a fairer deal for those on the sharp end, achieve greater recognition for any number of issues, or simply be treated with respect. Striking then, that not many universities have a Department of Change Studies, to which social activists can turn for advice and inspiration. Instead, scholarly discussions of change are fragmented with few conversations crossing disciplinary boundaries, rarely making it onto the radars of those actively seeking change. This book bridges the gap between academia and practice, bringing together the best research from a range of academic disciplines and the evolving practical understanding of activists to explore the topic of social and political change. Drawing on many first-hand examples from the global experience of Oxfam, one of the world's largest social justice NGOs, as well as the author's insights from studying and working on international development, it tests ideas on How Change Happens and offers the latest thinking on what works to achieve progressive change. This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International licence. It is available as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations.}, language = {English}, publisher = {OUP Oxford}, author = {Green, Duncan}, month = oct, year = {2016}, } @book{wetterberg_governance_2016, address = {Research Triangle Park, NC}, title = {Governance and {Service} {Delivery}: {Practical} {Applications} of {Social} {Accountability} {Across} {Sectors}}, isbn = {978-1-934831-18-2}, shorttitle = {Governance and {Service} {Delivery}}, abstract = {The six case studies in Governance and Service Delivery: Practical Applications of Social Accountability Across Sectors illustrate the multiple ways citizen participation in accountability – called social accountability – can lead to positive effects on governance, citizen empowerment, and service delivery. Drawing on their extensive experience implementing international donor-funded programs and projects, the authors examine six recent RTI International projects in Africa and Asia. The analysis focuses on both intended and actual effects, and it unpacks the influence of context on implementation and outcomes achieved, as well as on prospects for sustainability. Donors, academics, policy makers, practitioners and others interested in sustainable development and governance will find this systematic review invaluable.}, language = {English}, publisher = {RTI Press}, editor = {Wetterberg, Anna and Brinkerhoff, Derick W. and Hertz, Jana C.}, month = sep, year = {2016}, } @book{ang_how_2016, address = {London}, title = {How {China} {Escaped} the {Poverty} {Trap}}, isbn = {978-1-5017-0020-0}, abstract = {Before markets opened in 1978, China was an impoverished planned economy governed by a Maoist bureaucracy. In just three decades it evolved into the world's second-largest economy and is today guided by highly entrepreneurial bureaucrats. In How China Escaped the Poverty Trap, Yuen Yuen Ang explains this astonishing metamorphosis. Rather than insist that either strong institutions of good governance foster markets or that growth enables good governance, Ang lays out a new, dynamic framework for understanding development broadly. Successful development, she contends, is a coevolutionary process in which markets and governments mutually adapt.By mapping this coevolution, Ang reveals a startling conclusion: poor and weak countries can escape the poverty trap by first harnessing weak institutions―features that defy norms of good governance―to build markets. Further, she stresses that adaptive processes, though essential for development, do not automatically occur. Highlighting three universal roadblocks to adaptation, Ang identifies how Chinese reformers crafted enabling conditions for effective improvisation.How China Escaped the Poverty Trap offers the most complete synthesis to date of the numerous interacting forces that have shaped China’s dramatic makeover and the problems it faces today. Looking beyond China, Ang also traces the coevolutionary sequence of development in late medieval Europe, antebellum United States, and contemporary Nigeria, and finds surprising parallels among these otherwise disparate cases. Indispensable to all who care about development, this groundbreaking book challenges the convention of linear thinking and points to an alternative path out of poverty traps.}, language = {English}, publisher = {Cornell University Press}, author = {Ang, Yuen Yuen}, month = sep, year = {2016}, keywords = {IMPORTANT}, } @book{schwaber_scrum_2016, title = {The {Scrum} {Guide}}, url = {http://www.scrumguides.org/docs/scrumguide/v2016/2016-Scrum-Guide-US.pdf}, urldate = {2016-08-10}, publisher = {scrum.org}, author = {Schwaber, Ken and Sutherland, Jeff}, month = jul, year = {2016}, } @book{bass_christian_2016, title = {Christian {Practical} {Wisdom}: {What} {It} {Is}, {Why} {It} {Matters}}, isbn = {978-0-8028-6873-2}, shorttitle = {Christian {Practical} {Wisdom}}, abstract = {Why is the very kind of knowledge that people need to live well ― practical wisdom ― often the least understood, the hardest to learn, and the most devalued kind of knowledge?In this book five distinguished practical theologians examine the wisdom that is basic for faithful Christian living, question why it has been largely devalued, and advocate for its renewal. After first showing several concrete situations in which this kind of wisdom is visible ― marriage, church, community, culture, and more ― the authors then delve into the reasons for the decline of practical wisdom and set forth constructive cases for its renewal through biblical imagination and spiritual practice.}, language = {English}, publisher = {Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company}, author = {Bass, Dorothy C. and Cahalan, Kathleen A. and McLemore, Bonnie J. and Nieman, James R. and Scharen, Christian B.}, month = jun, year = {2016}, } @book{wahl_designing_2016, address = {Axminster}, title = {Designing {Regenerative} {Cultures}}, isbn = {978-1-909470-77-4}, abstract = {This is a 'Whole Earth Catalog' for the 21st century: an impressive and wide-ranging analysis of what's wrong with our societies, organizations, ideologies, worldviews and cultures - and how to put them right. The book covers the finance system, agriculture, design, ecology, economy, sustainability, organizations and society at large. In this remarkable book, Daniel Wahl explores ways in which we can reframe and understand the crises that we currently face, and he explores how we can live our way into the future. Moving from patterns of thinking and believing to our practice of education, design and community living, he systematically shows how we can stop chasing the mirage of certainty and control in a complex and unpredictable world. The book asks how can we collaborate in the creation of diverse regenerative cultures adapted to the unique biocultural conditions of place? How can we create conditions conducive to life? *** "This book is a valuable contribution to the important discussion of the worldview and value system we need to redesign our businesses, economies, and technologies - in fact, our entire culture - so as to make them regenerative rather than destructive." --Fritjof Capra, author of The Web of Life, co-author of The Systems View of Life: A Unifying Vision *** "This is an excellent addition to the literature on ecological design and it will certainly form a keystone in the foundations of the new MA in Ecological Design Thinking at Schumacher College, Devon. It not only contains a wealth of ideas on what Dr Wahl has termed 'Designing Regenerative Cultures' but what is probably more important, it provides some stimulating new ways of looking at persistent problems in our contemporary culture and hence opens up new ways of thinking and acting in the future." -- Seaton Baxter OBE, Prof. in Ecological Design Thinking, Schumacher College, UK [Subject: Systems Thinking, Education, Social Anthropology, Environmentalism, Ecology, Regenerative Culture, Sociology]}, language = {English}, publisher = {Triarchy Press Ltd}, author = {Wahl, Daniel Christian}, month = may, year = {2016}, } @book{breuer_digital_2016, title = {Digital {Technologies} for {Democratic} {Governance} in {Latin} {America}: {Opportunities} and {Risks}}, isbn = {978-1-138-68679-3}, shorttitle = {Digital {Technologies} for {Democratic} {Governance} in {Latin} {America}}, abstract = {This book is the first to comprehensively analyse the political and societal impacts of new Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) in a region of the Global South. It evaluates under what conditions some Latin American governments and people have succeeded in taking up the opportunities related to the spread of ICTs, while others are confronted with the pessimist scenario of increased, digitally induced social and democratic cleavages. Specifically, the book examines if and how far the spread and use of new ICT affected central aims of democratic governance such as reducing socio-economic and gender inequality; strengthening citizen participation in political decision making; increasing the transparency of legislative processes; improving administrative processes; providing free access to government data and information; and expanding independent spaces of citizen communication. The country case and cross-country explore a range of bottom-up driven initiatives to reinforce democracy in the region. The book offers researchers and students an interdisciplinary approach to these issues by linking it to established theories of media and politics, political communication, political participation, and governance. Giving voice to researchers native to the region and with direct experience of the region, it uniquely brings together contributions from political scientists, researchers in communication studies and area studies specialists who have a solid record in political activism and international development co-operation.}, language = {English}, publisher = {Routledge}, editor = {Breuer, Anita and Welp, Yanina}, month = apr, year = {2016}, } @book{berger_simple_2016, edition = {Illustrated edition}, title = {Simple {Habits} for {Complex} {Times}: {Powerful} {Practices} for {Leaders}}, isbn = {978-0-8047-9943-0}, shorttitle = {Simple {Habits} for {Complex} {Times}}, language = {English}, publisher = {Stanford University Press}, author = {Berger, Jennifer Garvey and Johnston, Keith}, month = apr, year = {2016}, } @book{ramalingam_innovation_2016, address = {London}, title = {Innovation for {International} {Development}: {Navigating} the {Paths} and {Pitfalls}}, url = {http://www.nesta.org.uk/publications/innovation-international-development}, abstract = {Experiences, insights and practical advice from over 20 leading practitioners in innovation for international development, brought together in one collection.}, urldate = {2016-04-26}, publisher = {NESTA}, editor = {Ramalingam, Ben and Bound, Kirsten}, month = apr, year = {2016}, } @book{brouwer_msp_2016, address = {Wageningen}, title = {The {MSP} {Tool} {Guide}: {Sixty} tools to facilitate {Multi}-{Stakeholder} {Partnerships}}, isbn = {978-1-85339-965-7 978-1-78044-669-1}, shorttitle = {The {MSP} {Guide}}, url = {https://www.developmentbookshelf.com/doi/book/10.3362/9781780446691}, abstract = {What is ‘The MSP Tool Guide’ all about? This compilation of 60 tools is an companion to The MSP Guide, the Wageningen University \& Research CDI resource on how to design and facilitate effective multi-stakeholder partnerships. At the request of many readers we have compiled them into one document to enable easy storing and sharing. These tools are available in summarized version in the MSP Guide in Chapter 6. The detailed versions on how to use the tool, and when to use it, are available on the portal www.mspguide.org/tools-and-methods. The content of this portal is compiled in this Tool Guide.}, language = {en}, urldate = {2023-02-09}, publisher = {CDI, Wageningen University and Research}, author = {Brouwer, Herman and Brouwers, Jan}, month = jan, year = {2016}, doi = {10.3362/9781780446691}, } @book{brouwer_msp_2016, title = {The {MSP} {Guide}: {How} to {Design} and {Facilitate} {Multi}-{Stakeholder} {Partnerships}}, isbn = {978-1-85339-965-7 978-1-78044-669-1}, shorttitle = {The {MSP} {Guide}}, url = {https://www.developmentbookshelf.com/doi/book/10.3362/9781780446691}, abstract = {In recent years, multi-stakeholder partnerships (MSPs) have become popular for tackling the complex challenges of sustainable development. This guide provides a practical framework for the design and facilitation of these collaborative processes that work across the boundaries of business, government, civil society and science. The guide links the underlying rationale for multistakeholder partnerships, with a clear four phase process model, a set of seven core principles, key ideas for facilitation and 60 participatory tools for analysis, planning and decision making. The guide has been written for those directly involved in MSPs – as a stakeholder, leader, facilitator or funder – to provide both the conceptual foundations and practical tools that underpin successful partnerships. What’s inside draws on the direct experience of staff from the Wageningen Centre of Development Innovation (WCDI), at Wageningen University \& Research, in supporting MSP processes in many countries around the world. The guide also compiles the ideas and materials behind WCDI’s annual three week international course on facilitating MSPs and social learning. This work has been inspired by the motivation and passion that comes when people dare to “walk in each other’s shoes” to find new paths toward shared ambitions for the future.}, language = {en}, urldate = {2023-02-09}, publisher = {Practical Action Publishing}, author = {Brouwer, Herman and Woodhill, Jim and Hemmati, Minu and Verhoosel, Karèn and van Vugt, Simone}, month = jan, year = {2016}, doi = {10.3362/9781780446691}, } @book{hevia_monitoreo_2016, address = {Ciudad de México}, title = {Monitoreo ciudadano en {México}: {Participación} ciudadana para mejorar la provisión de servicios públicos}, isbn = {978-607-9367-82-4}, shorttitle = {Libro}, url = {https://www.academia.edu/27473432/Libro_Monitoreo_ciudadano_en_M%C3%A9xico_Participaci%C3%B3n_ciudadana_para_mejorar_la_provisi%C3%B3n_de_servicios_p%C3%BAblicos}, abstract = {Existe un amplio consenso sobre la importancia de los sistemas de monitoreo y evaluación para la mejora de políticas, programas y servicios públicos. Sin embargo, en la literatura especializada sorprende el escaso interés por analizar un tipo}, urldate = {2016-08-08}, publisher = {CIDE}, author = {Hevia, Felipe}, year = {2016}, } @book{mcchrystal_team_2015, address = {London}, title = {Team of {Teams}: {New} {Rules} of {Engagement} for a {Complex} {World}}, isbn = {978-0-241-25083-9}, shorttitle = {Team of {Teams}}, abstract = {As commander of Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC), General Stanley McChrystal discarded a century of management wisdom and pivoted from a pursuit of mechanical efficiency to organic adaptability. In this book, he shows how any organization can make the same transition to act like a team of teams - where small groups combine the freedom to experiment with a relentless drive to share their experience.Drawing on a wealth of evidence from his military career and sources as diverse as hospital emergency rooms and NASA's space program, McChrystal frames the existential challenge facing today's organizations, and presents a compelling, effective solution.}, language = {English}, publisher = {Portfolio Penguin}, author = {McChrystal, General Stanley and Silverman, David and Collins, Tantum and Fussell, Chris}, month = nov, year = {2015}, } @book{whaites_governance_2015, title = {A {Governance} {Practitioner}’s {Notebook}: {Alternative} {Ideas} and {Approaches}}, url = {http://www.oecd.org/dac/governance-peace/governance/governance-practitioners-notebook.htm}, abstract = {The Governance Practitioner’s Notebook takes an unusual approach for the OECD-DAC Network on Governance (GovNet). It brings together a collection of specially written notes aimed at those who work as governance practitioners within development agencies. It does so, however, without attempting to offer definitive guidance – instead aiming to stimulate thinking and debate. To aid this process the book is centred on a fictional Governance Adviser. The Notebook’s format provides space for experts to speak on today’s governance issues: politics, public sector reform and stakeholder engagement. It encourages debate, charts the evolution of donor thinking, and highlights future challenges in the age of the Sustainable Development Goals. Each section introduces both technical issues and major areas of debate, providing ideas for future development support to institutional reform.}, urldate = {2016-08-11}, publisher = {OECD}, editor = {Whaites, Alan and Gonzalez, Eduardo and Fyson, Sara and Teskey, Graham}, month = nov, year = {2015}, keywords = {IMPORTANT}, } @book{stroh_systems_2015, address = {White River Junction}, title = {Systems {Thinking} {For} {Social} {Change}: {A} {Practical} {Guide} to {Solving} {Complex} {Problems}, {Avoiding} {Unintended} {Consequences}, and {Achieving} {Lasting} {Results}}, isbn = {978-1-60358-580-4}, shorttitle = {Systems {Thinking} {For} {Social} {Change}}, abstract = {Donors, leaders of nonprofits, and public policy makers usually have the best of intentions to serve society and improve social conditions. But often their solutions fall far short of what they want to accomplish and what is truly needed. Moreover, the answers they propose and fund often produce the opposite of what they want over time. We end up with temporary shelters that increase homelessness, drug busts that increase drug-related crime, or food aid that increases starvation. How do these unintended consequences come about and how can we avoid them? By applying conventional thinking to complex social problems, we often perpetuate the very problems we try so hard to solve, but it is possible to think differently, and get different results. Systems Thinking for Social Change enables readers to contribute more effectively to society by helping them understand what systems thinking is and why it is so important in their work. It also gives concrete guidance on how to incorporate systems thinking in problem solving, decision making, and strategic planning without becoming a technical expert. Systems thinking leader David Stroh walks readers through techniques he has used to help people improve their efforts to end homelessness, improve public health, strengthen education, design a system for early childhood development, protect child welfare, develop rural economies, facilitate the reentry of formerly incarcerated people into society, resolve identity-based conflicts, and more.  The result is a highly readable, effective guide to understanding systems and using that knowledge to get the results you want.}, language = {English}, publisher = {Chelsea Green Publishing}, author = {Stroh, David Peter}, month = oct, year = {2015}, } @book{burns_navigating_2015, address = {Rugby}, title = {Navigating {Complexity} in {International} {Development}: {Facilitating} {Sustainable} {Change} at {Scale}}, isbn = {978-1-85339-852-0}, shorttitle = {Navigating {Complexity} in {International} {Development}}, abstract = {Governments and organizations invest huge sums of money in development interventions to explicitly address poverty and its root causes. However, a high proportion of these do not work. This is because interventions are grounded in flawed assumptions about how change happens -- change is rarely linear, yet development interventions are almost entirely based on linear planning models. Change is also characterized by unintended consequences, which are not predictable by planners and by power dynamics, which drive outcomes towards vested interests rather than real need. Development processes need to engage effectively with these sorts of complex system dynamics. This book provides a conceptual framework for this thinking, offers detail case studies of interventions which have been built on this philosophy and which demonstrate key facets of it. It articulates some clear methodological underpinnings for this work, and draws out the implications both for development, practice and practitioners.}, language = {English}, publisher = {Practical Action Publishing}, author = {Burns, Danny and Worsley, Stuart}, month = oct, year = {2015}, keywords = {IMPORTANT}, } @book{boulton_embracing_2015, address = {Oxford}, edition = {1st edition}, title = {Embracing {Complexity}: {Strategic} {Perspectives} for an {Age} of {Turbulence}}, isbn = {978-0-19-956526-9}, shorttitle = {Embracing {Complexity}}, abstract = {The book describes what it means to say the world is complex and explores what that means for managers, policy makers and individuals. The first part of the book is about the theory and ideas of complexity. This is explained in a way that is thorough but not mathematical. It compares differing approaches, and also provides a historical perspective, showing how such thinking has been around since the beginning of civilisation. It emphasises the difference between a complexity worldview and the dominant mechanical worldview that underpins much of current management practice. It defines the complexity worldview as recognising the world is interconnected, shaped by history and the particularities of context. The comparison of the differing approaches to modelling complexity is unique in its depth and accessibility. The second part of the book uses this lens of complexity to explore issues in the fields of management, strategy, economics, and international development. It also explores how to facilitate others to recognise the implications of adopting a complex rather than a mechanical worldview and suggests methods of research to explore systemic, path-dependent emergent aspects of situations. The authors of this book span both science and management, academia and practice, thus the explanations of science are authoritative and yet the examples of changing how you live and work in the world are real and accessible. The aim of the book is to bring alive what complexity is all about and to illustrate the importance of loosening the grip of a modernist worldview with its hope for prediction, certainty and control.}, language = {English}, publisher = {Oxford University Press}, author = {Boulton, Jean G. and Allen, Peter M. and Bowman, Cliff}, month = sep, year = {2015}, } @book{black_international_2015, title = {International {Development} - {Illusions} and {Realities}}, isbn = {978-1-78026-239-0}, abstract = {Part of the popular, reissued NoNonsense series from New Internationalist'Development' is often misunderstood and can embrace everything from building a large dam to planting trees. The idea can often mask confusion, contradiction, deceit and corruption. This book is essential reading for anyone wanting to know what development actually is. It covers all the key themes and critically suggests ways to bring the poor and marginalised into the process.}, language = {English}, publisher = {New Internationalist}, author = {Black, Maggie}, month = sep, year = {2015}, } @book{syed_black_2015, title = {Black {Box} {Thinking}: {The} {Surprising} {Truth} {About} {Success}}, isbn = {978-1-4736-1379-9}, shorttitle = {Black {Box} {Thinking}}, abstract = {The Sunday Times No.1 Bestseller From the Bestselling Author of BounceWhat links the Mercedes Formula One team with Google?What links Team Sky and the aviation industry?What connects James Dyson and David Beckham?They are all Black Box Thinkers.Black Box Thinking is a new approach to high performance, a means of finding an edge in a complex and fast-changing world. It is not just about sport, but has powerful implications for business and politics, as well as for parents and students. In other words, all of us.Drawing on a dizzying array of case studies and real-world examples, together with cutting-edge research on marginal gains, creativity and grit, Matthew Syed tells the inside story of how success really happens - and how we cannot grow unless we are prepared to learn from our mistakes.}, language = {en}, publisher = {Hachette UK}, author = {Syed, Matthew}, month = sep, year = {2015}, note = {Google-Books-ID: f1eNBQAAQBAJ}, keywords = {Psychology, Sports \& Recreation / Sports Psychology, Strategic Planning}, } @book{bushe_dialogic_2015, address = {Oakland}, title = {Dialogic {Organization} {Development}: {The} {Theory} and {Practice} of {Transformational} {Change}}, isbn = {978-1-62656-404-6}, shorttitle = {Dialogic {Organization} {Development}}, abstract = {Dialogic Organization Development is a compelling alternative to the classical action research approach to planned change. Organizations are seen as fluid,socially constructed realities that are continuously created through conversations and images change happens when those conversations and images change. Leaders and consultants can help foster, support, or accelerate the emergence of transformational possibilities by encouraging disruptions to taken-for-granted ways of thinking and acting and the use of generative images to stimulate new organizational conversations and narratives. Dialogic OD is a different mindset, but it s also the previously unrecognized underpinning of such diverse change methods as Appreciative Inquiry, the Art of Convening, Future Search, and many more.}, language = {English}, publisher = {EDS Publications Ltd.}, author = {Bushe, Gervase R.}, editor = {Marshak, Robert J.}, month = jul, year = {2015}, } @book{eyben_politics_2015, title = {The {Politics} of {Evidence} and {Results} in {International} {Development}: {Playing} the {Game} to {Change} the {Rules}?}, isbn = {978-1-85339-886-5}, shorttitle = {The {Politics} of {Evidence} and {Results} in {International} {Development}}, url = {http://www.ids.ac.uk/publication/the-politics-of-evidence-and-results-in-international-development-playing-the-game-to-change-the-rules}, abstract = {Understanding and demonstrating the effectiveness of efforts to improve the lives of those living in poverty is an essential part of international development practice. But who decides what counts as good or credible evidence? Can the drive to measure results do justice to and promote transformational change change that challenges the power relations that produce and reproduce inequality, injustice and the non-fulfillment of human rights? The Politics of Evidence in International Development provides a critical examination of the results agenda, with practical strategies for rendering it more helpful in supporting transformative development. The book deconstructs the origins and concepts of the results and evidence agendas employed in international development. It describes with concrete examples the current effects and consequences of the agenda, and goes on to outline a range of strategies used by individuals and organizations to resist, adapt or comply with the useful and problematic demands for results-oriented measurement and evidence of value for money."}, language = {English}, publisher = {Practical Action Publishing}, editor = {Eyben, Rosalind and Guijt, Irene and Roche, Chris and Shutt, Cathy}, month = jul, year = {2015}, } @book{heller_deliberation_2015, address = {Washington, D.C}, title = {Deliberation and {Development}: {Rethinking} the {Role} of {Voice} and {Collective} {Action} in {Unequal} {Societies}}, isbn = {978-1-4648-0501-1}, shorttitle = {Deliberation and {Development}}, abstract = {This book marries two fields that rarely converse with one another:deliberative democracy and development studies. The study ofdeliberation―which explores normative and practical questions aroundgroup-based decision making through discussion or debate―has emergedas a critical area of study over the past two decades. Concurrently, the fieldof development has seen a spurt of interest in community-led developmentand participation premised on the ability of groups to arrive at decisionsand manage resources via a process of discussion and debate. Despite thegrowing interest in both fields, they have rarely engaged with one another.This book, which brings together new essays by some of the leading scholarsin the field, deepens our understanding of participatory decision makingin developing countries while initiating a new field of study for scholarsof deliberation. In the process, it sheds light on how to best design andimplement policies to strengthen the role of participation in development.}, language = {English}, publisher = {World Bank Publications}, editor = {Heller, Patrick and Rao, Vijayendra}, month = jul, year = {2015}, } @book{layton_scrum_2015, address = {Hoboken, NJ}, title = {Scrum {For} {Dummies}}, isbn = {978-1-118-90575-3}, abstract = {Practice an agile form of management to stop wasting time and money Scrum For Dummies is an easy to use guide to managing the tricky transition from a traditional project management methodology to the new and most popular agile framework. As the most efficient, successful methodology for team project management, Scrum relies on transparency, flexibility, and fluidity to deliver a final product that fulfills the needs of all stakeholders. Written in easy–to–read Dummies style, this book walks you through the core principles of Scrum and provides a roadmap for tangible implementation. The vast majority of projects go over budget, and billions of dollars are wasted every year on overruns. Put a stop to this wasteful leakage by switching to a management style that keeps all participants informed, up–to–date, and accountable. Authored by a Certified Scrum Trainer, Mark Layton, Scrum For Dummies covers the key ideas and processes behind Scrum methodologies, and presents the inner workings of the plan in an engaging and accessible format. Topics include: The Scrum values, roles, artifacts, and activities that make up the principle of this methodology When and how best to use Scrum The differences between Scrum and other agile methodologies Using Scrum for IT, finance, construction, health care, and more The book also delves into the everyday use of Scrum, and how it can help you achieve your own personal goals outside of work. There′s a reason why scrum is quickly becoming the standard approach to project management it works! If you want to stop wasting time and start producing more effectively, Scrum For Dummies is the guide that will get you there.}, language = {English}, publisher = {John Wiley \& Sons}, author = {Layton, Mark C.}, month = may, year = {2015}, } @book{stanley_why_2015, address = {Cham}, title = {Why {Greatness} {Cannot} {Be} {Planned}: {The} {Myth} of the {Objective}}, isbn = {978-3-319-15523-4}, shorttitle = {Why {Greatness} {Cannot} {Be} {Planned}}, abstract = {Why does modern life revolve around objectives? From how science is funded, to improving how children are educated -- and nearly everything in-between -- our society has become obsessed with a seductive illusion: that greatness results from doggedly measuring improvement in the relentless pursuit of an ambitious goal. In Why Greatness Cannot Be Planned, Stanley and Lehman begin with a surprising scientific discovery in artificial intelligence that leads ultimately to the conclusion that the objective obsession has gone too far. They make the case that great achievement can't be bottled up into mechanical metrics; that innovation is not driven by narrowly focused heroic effort; and that we would be wiser (and the outcomes better) if instead we whole-heartedly embraced serendipitous discovery and playful creativity.Controversial at its heart, yet refreshingly provocative, this book challenges readers to consider life without a destination and discovery without a compass.}, language = {English}, publisher = {Springer}, author = {Stanley, Kenneth O. and Lehman, Joel}, month = may, year = {2015}, } @book{haider_understanding_2015, address = {Warsaw, Poland}, title = {Understanding {Indicators} {And} {Monitoring} {For} {Sustainability} {In} {The} {Context} {Of} {Complex} {Social}-{Ecological} {Systems}}, isbn = {978-3-11-045050-7}, url = {http://www.degruyter.com/view/books/9783110450507/9783110450507/9783110450507.xml}, language = {en}, urldate = {2019-05-04}, publisher = {De Gruyter Open}, author = {Haider, L. Jamila and Iribarrem, Alvaro and Gardner, Toby and Latawiec, Agnieszka E and Alves-Pinto, Helena and Strassburg, Bernardo}, month = jan, year = {2015}, doi = {10.1515/9783110450507}, } @book{bailur_digital_2015, title = {Digital lives in {Ghana}, {Kenya} and {Uganda}}, url = {http://cariboudigital.net/new/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/Caribou-Digital-Digital-Lives-in-Ghana-Kenya-and-Uganda.pdf}, urldate = {2016-04-20}, publisher = {Caribou Digital}, author = {Bailur, Savita and Donner, Jonathan and Locke, Chris and Schoemaker, Emrys and Smart, Charlotte}, year = {2015}, keywords = {IMPORTANT}, } @book{giz_cooperation_2015, title = {Cooperation {Management} for {Practitioners}: {Managing} {Social} {Change} {With} {Capacity} {Works}}, isbn = {978-3-658-07904-8}, url = {https://www.springer.com/gp/book/9783658079048}, language = {English}, publisher = {Springer Gabler}, editor = {GIZ}, year = {2015}, note = {OCLC: 893897509}, } @book{grandvoinnet_opening_2015, address = {Washington, DC}, series = {New frontiers of social policy}, title = {Opening the black box: the contextual drivers of social accountability}, isbn = {978-1-4648-0481-6 978-1-4648-0482-3}, shorttitle = {Opening the black box}, language = {eng}, publisher = {World Bank Group}, author = {Grandvoinnet, Helene and Aslam, Ghazia and Raha, Shomikho}, year = {2015}, keywords = {Social accounting}, } @book{ideo_field_2015, address = {San Francisco}, title = {The field guide to human-centered design: design kit}, isbn = {978-0-9914063-1-9}, shorttitle = {The field guide to human-centered design}, language = {eng}, publisher = {IDEO}, author = {{IDEO}}, year = {2015}, keywords = {Design, IMPORTANT, Methode}, } @book{pact_organizational_2015, address = {Washington DC, United States}, title = {Organizational {Performance} {Index} ({OPI}) {Handbook}: {A} practical guide to the {OPI} tool for practitioners and development professionals}, url = {http://hkdepo.am/up/docs/OPIhandbook_pact.pdf}, abstract = {This handbook is intended to help development practitioners understand how to use and what can be achieved by Pact’s Organizational Performance Index (OPI) tool. This document will provide practitioners and managers with information on how the Pact OPI works and how best to incorporate it in their country strategy or program.}, urldate = {2018-09-22}, publisher = {Pact}, author = {Pact}, year = {2015}, } @book{world_bank_world_2015, address = {Washington DC}, title = {World {Development} {Report} 2015: {Mind}, {Society}, and {Behavior}}, isbn = {978-1-4648-0342-0}, shorttitle = {World {Development} {Report} 2015}, url = {http://www.worldbank.org/en/publication/wdr2015}, abstract = {Development economics and policy are due for a redesign. In the past few decades, research from across the natural and social sciences has provided stunning insight into the way people think and make decisions. Whereas the first generation of development policy was based on the assumption that humans make decisions deliberatively and independently, and on the basis of consistent and self-interested preferences, recent research shows that decision making rarely proceeds this way. People think automatically: when deciding, they usually draw on what comes to mind effortlessly. People also think socially: social norms guide much of behavior, and many people prefer to cooperate as long as others are doing their share. And people think with mental models: what they perceive and how they interpret it depend on concepts and worldviews drawn from their societies and from shared histories.The World Development Report 2015 offers a concrete look at how these insights apply to development policy. It shows how a richer view of human behavior can help achieve development goals in many areas, including early childhood development, household finance, productivity, health, and climate change. It also shows how a more subtle view of human behavior provides new tools for interventions. Making even minor adjustments to a decision-making context, designing interventions based on an understanding of social preferences, and exposing individuals to new experiences and ways of thinking may enable people to improve their lives.The Report opens exciting new avenues for development work. It shows that poverty is not simply a state of material deprivation, but also a “tax” on cognitive resources that affects the quality of decision making. It emphasizes that all humans, including experts and policy makers, are subject to psychological and social influences on thinking, and that development organizations could benefit from procedures to improve their own deliberations and decision making. It demonstrates the need for more discovery, learning, and adaptation in policy design and implementation. The new approach to development economics has immense promise. Its scope of application is vast. This Report introduces an important new agenda for the development community.}, language = {English}, publisher = {The World Bank}, author = {World Bank}, year = {2015}, } @book{salgado_internet_2014, title = {The {Internet} and {Democracy} {Building} in {Lusophone} {African} {Countries}}, isbn = {978-1-4094-7293-3}, abstract = {This timely book fills an important gap in the literature on the influence of the Internet and new media in Portuguese speaking African countries. Based on extensive field work throughout the region the author examines the influence of the Internet in the transition to democracy in Africa, and asks whether there are new possibilities for popular activism to emerge from evolving communication environments and media systems.The book analyses the different forms of democracy, the concept of development, and addresses the debate about the relationship between democracy and development and explores the influence of the media in the democratization process, the promises that digital media bring to this process and to development and the implications of the African digital divide. In certain countries in this region democracy and independent news media are in their infancy but are starting to take hold, giving an excellent opportunity to observe the dynamics of civil society and the influence of increased freedom, new voting powers and new media in particular. The book offers important insights into the roles and functions that the media in general, and the Internet in particular, can perform in the creation of a more democratic society, as well as in empowering and educating citizens in democratic values.}, language = {en}, publisher = {Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.}, author = {Salgado, Dr Susana}, month = nov, year = {2014}, note = {Google-Books-ID: WC3jBAAAQBAJ}, keywords = {Business \& Economics / Industries / Computers \& Information Technology, History / Africa / General, Political Science / Political Ideologies / Democracy}, } @book{chen_practical_2014, address = {Los Angeles}, edition = {Second edition}, title = {Practical {Program} {Evaluation}: {Theory}-{Driven} {Evaluation} and the {Integrated} {Evaluation} {Perspective}}, isbn = {978-1-4129-9230-5}, shorttitle = {Practical {Program} {Evaluation}}, abstract = {The Second Edition of Practical Program Evaluation shows readers how to systematically identify stakeholders’ needs in order to select the evaluation options best suited to meet those needs. Within his discussion of the various evaluation types, Huey T. Chen details a range of evaluation approaches suitable for use across a program’s life cycle. At the core of program evaluation is its body of concepts, theories, and methods. This revised edition provides an overview of these, and includes expanded coverage of both introductory and more cutting-edge techniques within six new chapters. Illustrated throughout with real-world examples that bring the material to life, the Second Edition provides many new tools to enrich the evaluator’s toolbox.}, language = {English}, publisher = {SAGE Publications, Inc}, author = {Chen, Huey}, month = nov, year = {2014}, } @book{sutherland_scrum:_2014, address = {New York}, title = {Scrum: {The} {Art} of {Doing} {Twice} the {Work} in {Half} the {Time}}, isbn = {978-0-385-34645-0}, shorttitle = {Scrum}, abstract = {We live in a world that is broken. For those who believe that there must be a more agile and efficient way for people to get things done, here from Scrum pioneer Jeff Sutherland is a brilliantly discursive, thought-provoking book about the leadership and management process that is changing the way we live. In the future, historians may look back on human progress and draw a sharp line designating "before Scrum" and "after Scrum." Scrum is that ground-breaking. It already drives most of the world's top technology companies. And now it's starting to spread to every domain where leaders wrestle with complex projects. If you've ever been startled by how fast the world is changing, Scrum is one of the reasons why. Productivity gains of as much as 1200\% have been recorded, and there's no more lucid - or compelling - explainer of Scrum and its bright promise than Jeff Sutherland, the man who put together the first Scrum team more than twenty years ago. The thorny problem Jeff began tackling back then boils down to this: people are spectacularly bad at doing things with agility and efficiency. Best laid plans go up in smoke. Teams often work at cross purposes to each other. And when the pressure rises, unhappiness soars. Drawing on his experience as a West Point-educated fighter pilot, biometrics expert, early innovator of ATM technology, and V.P. of engineering or CTO at eleven different technology companies, Jeff began challenging those dysfunctional realities, looking for solutions that would have global impact. In this book you'll journey to Scrum's front lines where Jeff's system of deep accountability, team interaction, and constant iterative improvement is, among other feats, bringing the FBI into the 21st century, perfecting the design of an affordable 140 mile per hour/100 mile per gallon car, helping NPR report fast-moving action in the Middle East, changing the way pharmacists interact with patients, reducing poverty in the Third World, and even helping people plan their weddings and accomplish weekend chores. Woven with insights from martial arts, judicial decision making, advanced aerial combat, robotics, and many other disciplines, Scrum is consistently riveting. But the most important reason to read this book is that it may just help you achieve what others consider unachievable - whether it be inventing a trailblazing technology, devising a new system of education, pioneering a way to feed the hungry, or, closer to home, a building a foundation for your family to thrive and prosper.}, language = {English}, publisher = {Crown Business}, author = {Sutherland, Jeff}, month = sep, year = {2014}, } @book{kaner_facilitators_2014, address = {San Francisco}, title = {Facilitator's {Guide} to {Participatory} {Decision}-{Making}}, isbn = {978-1-118-40495-9}, abstract = {Unleash the transformative power of face to face groups The third edition of this ground–breaking book continues to advance its mission to support groups to do their best thinking. It demonstrates that meetings can be much more than merely an occasion for solving a problem or creating a plan. Every well–facilitated meeting is also an opportunity to stretch and develop the perspectives of the individual members, thereby building the strength and capacity of the group as a whole. This fully updated edition of The Facilitator′s Guide to Participatory Decision–Making guides readers through the struggle and the satisfaction of putting participatory values into practice, helping them to fulfill the promise of effective group decision–making. With previous editions already embraced by business and community leaders and consulting professionals around the world, this new book is even more insightful and easy to use. New for this edition: 60 pages of brand new skills and tools Many new case examples Major expansion and reorganization of the advanced sections of the book. New chapter: Teaching A Group About Group Dynamics Doubled in size: Classic Facilitator Challenges. Substantially improved: Designing Realistic Agendas now three chapters, with wise, insightful answers to the most vexing questions about meeting design.}, language = {English}, publisher = {John Wiley \& Sons}, author = {Kaner, Sam}, month = jun, year = {2014}, } @book{colander_complexity_2014, address = {Princeton}, title = {Complexity and the {Art} of {Public} {Policy}: {Solving} {Society}'s {Problems} from the {Bottom} {Up}}, isbn = {978-0-691-15209-7}, shorttitle = {Complexity and the {Art} of {Public} {Policy}}, abstract = {Complexity science--made possible by modern analytical and computational advances--is changing the way we think about social systems and social theory. Unfortunately, economists' policy models have not kept up and are stuck in either a market fundamentalist or government control narrative. While these standard narratives are useful in some cases, they are damaging in others, directing thinking away from creative, innovative policy solutions. Complexity and the Art of Public Policy outlines a new, more flexible policy narrative, which envisions society as a complex evolving system that is uncontrollable but can be influenced. David Colander and Roland Kupers describe how economists and society became locked into the current policy framework, and lay out fresh alternatives for framing policy questions. Offering original solutions to stubborn problems, the complexity narrative builds on broader philosophical traditions, such as those in the work of John Stuart Mill, to suggest initiatives that the authors call "activist laissez-faire" policies. Colander and Kupers develop innovative bottom-up solutions that, through new institutional structures such as for-benefit corporations, channel individuals' social instincts into solving societal problems, making profits a tool for change rather than a goal. They argue that a central role for government in this complexity framework is to foster an ecostructure within which diverse forms of social entrepreneurship can emerge and blossom.}, language = {English}, publisher = {Princeton University Press}, author = {Colander, David and Kupers, Roland}, month = may, year = {2014}, } @book{chambers_into_2014, address = {Rugby}, title = {Into the unknown: explorations in development practice}, isbn = {978-1-85339-823-0}, shorttitle = {Into the {Unknown}}, abstract = {Into the Unknown reflects on the journey of learning, and encourages readers to learn from observation, curiosity, critical feedback, play and fun. This book will be of interest to development professionals, including academics, students, NGO workers and the staff of international agencies}, language = {English}, publisher = {Practical Action Publishing}, author = {Chambers, Robert}, month = apr, year = {2014}, } @book{morieux_six_2014, title = {Six {Simple} {Rules}: {How} to {Manage} {Complexity} without {Getting} {Complicated}}, shorttitle = {Six {Simple} {Rules}}, abstract = {New tools for managing complexityDoes your organization manage complexity by making things more complicated? If so, you are not alone.According to The Boston Consulting Group’s fascinating Complexity Index, business complexity has increased sixfold during the past sixty years. And, all the while, organizational complicatedness—that is, the number of structures, processes, committees, decision-making forums, and systems—has increased by a whopping factor of thirty-five. In their attempt to respond to the increasingly complex performance requirements they face, company leaders have created an organizational labyrinth that makes it more and more difficult to improve productivity and to pursue innovation. It also disengages and demotivates the workforce.Clearly it’s time for leaders to stop trying to manage complexity with their traditional tools and instead better leverage employees' intelligence. This book shows you how and explains the implications for designing and leading organizations.The way to manage complexity, the authors argue, is neither with the hard solutions of another era nor with the soft solutions—such as team building and feel-good “people initiatives”—that often follow in their wake. Based on social sciences (notably economics, game theory, and organizational sociology) and The Boston Consulting Group’s work with more than five hundred companies in more than forty countries and in various industries, authors Yves Morieux and Peter Tollman recommend six simple rules to manage complexity without getting complicated.Showing why the rules work and how to put them into practice, Morieux and Tollman give managers a much-needed tool to reinvigorate people in the face of seemingly endless complexity. Included are detailed examples from companies that have achieved a multiplicative effect on performance by using them.It’s time to manage complexity better. Employ these six simple rules to foster autonomy and cooperation and to effectively handle business complexity. As a result, you will improve productivity, innovate more, reengage your workforce, and seize opportunities to create competitive advantage.}, language = {English}, publisher = {Harvard Business Review Press}, author = {Morieux, Yves and Tollman, Peter}, month = mar, year = {2014}, keywords = {Complexity, Design Thinking}, } @book{nesta_diy_2014, edition = {1st edition}, title = {{DIY} - {Development} {Impact} and {You}: {Practical} {Tools} to {Trigger} and {Support} {Social} {Innovation}}, isbn = {978-1-84875-150-7}, shorttitle = {{DIY} - {Development} {Impact} and {You}}, publisher = {NESTA}, editor = {Nesta}, month = mar, year = {2014}, keywords = {IMPORTANT}, } @book{ramalingam_aid_2014, address = {Oxford}, title = {Aid on the {Edge} of {Chaos}: {Rethinking} {International} {Cooperation} in a {Complex} {World}}, isbn = {978-0-19-957802-3}, shorttitle = {Aid on the {Edge} of {Chaos}}, abstract = {It is widely recognised that the foreign aid system - of which every country in the world is a part - is in need of drastic overhaul. There are conflicting opinions as to what should be done. Some call for dramatic increases to achieve longstanding promises. Others bang the drum for cutting it altogether, and suggest putting the fate of poor and vulnerable people in the hands of markets or business. A few argue that what is needed is creative, innovative transformation. The arguments in Aid on the Edge of Chaos are firmly in the third of these categories. In this ground-breaking book, Ben Ramalingam shows that the linear, mechanistic models and assumptions that foreign aid is built on are more at home in early twentieth century industry than in the dynamic, complex world we face today. The reality is that economies and societies are less like machines and more like ecosystems. Aid on the Edge of Chaos explores how thinkers and practitioners in economics, business, and public policy have started to embrace new, ecologically literate approaches to thinking and acting, informed by the ideas of complex adaptive systems research. It showcases insights, experiences, and dramatic results of a growing network of practitioners, researchers, and policy makers who are applying a complexity-informed approach to aid challenges. From transforming approaches to child malnutrition, to rethinking process of macroeconomic growth, from rural Vietnam to urban Columbia, Aid on the Edge of Chaos shows how embracing the ideas of complex systems thinking can help make foreign aid more relevant, more appropriate, more innovative, and more catalytic. It argues that taking on these ideas will be a vital part of the transformation of aid, from a post-WW2 mechanism of resource transfer, to a truly innovative and dynamic form of global cooperation fit for the twenty-first century.}, language = {English}, publisher = {Oxford University Press}, author = {Ramalingam, Ben}, month = jan, year = {2014}, } @book{dawson_learning_2014, title = {Learning and adapting: the use of monitoring and evaluation in countering violent extremism: a handbook for practitioners}, isbn = {978-0-85516-124-8}, shorttitle = {Learning and adapting}, url = {http://www.publicsafety.gc.ca/lbrr/archives/cnmcs-plcng/cn31896-eng.pdf}, abstract = {IN 2013, the Royal United Services Institute for Defence and Security Studies (RUSI) was awarded a grant under the Kanishka Project to develop a handbook for monitoring and evaluating counter violent extremism (CVE) policies and programmes. The aim of this handbook is to support CVE policy-makers and practitioners (those who design, manage and evaluate CVE programmes), by providing them with key terms regarding violent extremism and radicalisation, describing the purpose of evaluation, and providing examples of key methodologies they can employ to conduct monitoring and evaluation (M\&E) in this emerging policy field. The handbook will enable readers to understand why, when and how to conduct an evaluation of a CVE policy, programme or project. .}, language = {English}, urldate = {2019-09-17}, publisher = {Royal United Services Institute for Defence and Security Studies}, author = {Dawson, Laura and Edwards, Charlie and Jeffray, Calum and {Royal United Services Institute for Defence and Security Studies}}, year = {2014}, note = {OCLC: 1079851950}, } @book{elder_information_2014, title = {Information lives of the poor: fighting poverty with technology}, isbn = {978-1-55250-574-8}, shorttitle = {Information lives of the poor}, url = {http://www.deslibris.ca/ID/447403}, language = {English}, urldate = {2016-04-22}, author = {Elder, Laurent and Samarajiva, Rohan and Gillwald, Alison and Galperin, Hernan}, year = {2014}, } @book{roll_politics_2014, address = {London}, series = {Routledge research in comparative politics}, title = {The politics of public sector performance: pockets of effectiveness in developing countries}, isbn = {978-0-415-64361-0 978-1-138-95639-1 978-1-315-85771-8}, shorttitle = {The politics of public sector performance}, language = {eng}, number = {55}, publisher = {Routledge}, editor = {Roll, Michael}, year = {2014}, note = {OCLC: 869850351}, } @book{norman_design_2013, address = {Cambridge, MA London}, edition = {2nd revised and expanded ed edition}, title = {The {Design} of {Everyday} {Things}, revised and expanded edition}, isbn = {978-0-262-52567-1}, abstract = {Even the smartest among us can feel inept as we try to figure out the shower control in a hotel or attempt to navigate an unfamiliar television set or stove. When The Design of Everyday Things was published in 1988, cognitive scientist Don Norman provocatively proposed that the fault lies not in ourselves, but in design that ignores the needs and psychology of people. Fully revised to keep the timeless principles of psychology up to date with ever-changing new technologies, The Design of Everyday Things is a powerful appeal for good design, and a reminder of how -- and why -- some products satisfy while others only disappoint.}, language = {English}, publisher = {MIT Press}, author = {Norman, Donald A.}, month = dec, year = {2013}, } @book{highsmith_adaptive_2013, edition = {1st}, title = {Adaptive {Leadership}: {Accelerating} {Enterprise} {Agility}}, isbn = {978-0-13-359844-5}, shorttitle = {Adaptive {Leadership}}, url = {http://www.informit.com/store/adaptive-leadership-accelerating-enterprise-agility-9780133598445}, urldate = {2016-11-04}, publisher = {Addison-Wesley Professional.}, author = {Highsmith, Jim}, month = nov, year = {2013}, } @book{crowley_building_2013, address = {Boulder}, title = {Building a {Better} {International} {NGO}: {Greater} than the {Sum} of the {Parts}?}, isbn = {978-1-56549-583-8}, shorttitle = {Building a {Better} {International} {NGO}}, abstract = {In the wake of tremendous growth in the size and scope of their activities, as well as the increased complexity of their programs, how can large international NGOs work effectively―so that the whole is greater than the sum of the parts? James Crowley and Morgana Ryan address this question, drawing on their extensive hands-on experience to offer a practical and even provocative guide. The authors cover a range of essential topics, among them: What are INGOs good at? What should they be good at? Where does new technology fit in? What about accountability? What’s the best way to tackle strategic planning? In the process, they challenge those in leadership positions to recognize and implement the changes that are needed so that their organizations can perform better―and stay relevant―in the decades to come.}, language = {English}, publisher = {Kumarian Press}, author = {Crowley, James and Ryan, Morgana}, month = jul, year = {2013}, } @book{landell-mills_citizens_2013, address = {Kibworth Beauchamp}, title = {Citizens {Against} {Corruption}: {Report} from the {Front} {Line}}, isbn = {978-1-78306-086-3}, shorttitle = {Citizens {Against} {Corruption}}, url = {https://oxfamblogs.org/fp2p/citizens-against-corruption-what-works-findings-from-200-projects-in-53-countries/}, abstract = {Citizens Against Corruption: Report From The Front Line tells the story of how groups of courageous and dedicated citizens across the globe are taking direct action to root out corruption. It shows how people are no longer prepared to accept the predatory activities of dishonest officials and are challenging their scams. It draws on over 200 unique case studies that describe initiatives undertaken by 130 civil society organisations (CSOs) which engage directly with public agencies to stop the bribery and extortion that damages peoples' lives and obstructs social and economic progress. This book challenges the notion that, at best, civil society can only have a marginal impact on reducing corruption and argues that aid donors need to radically rethink their assistance for governance reform. Part 1 analyses the role citizens can play in fighting corruption and promoting good governance and briefly tells the story of the Partnership for Transparency Fund (PTF). Part 2 presents studies of India, Mongolia, Philippines, and Uganda - each with its unique history and distinctive circumstances - to illustrate activities undertaken by CSOs to root out corruption, including the tools and approaches that are being used to build pressure on corrupt public agencies to become transparent and accountable. Part 3 addresses key themes - strengthening the rule of law, putting in place effective national anti-corruption strategies and institutions, making public buying and selling honest, promoting grassroots monitoring of public expenditures and the provision of public services, mounting media campaigns to expose and defeat corruption, and empowering ordinary citizens to keep watch on what actually happens at the point of delivery of public services. Part 4 is a summary of lessons learnt and explores the potential, as well as the risks and limitations, of civic activism in a world where greed and dishonesty is the norm. Finally, the book explores the opportunities and dangers faced by aid donors in supporting local CSOs and charts a way forward. Citizens Against Corruption: Report From The Front Line will be of interest to staff working in CSOs and aid agencies, policy analysts and researchers concerned about corruption and poor governance.}, language = {English}, publisher = {Matador}, author = {Landell-Mills, Pierre}, month = may, year = {2013}, } @book{carothers_development_2013, address = {Washington, DC}, title = {Development {Aid} {Confronts} {Politics}: {The} {Almost} {Revolution}}, isbn = {978-0-87003-400-8}, shorttitle = {Development {Aid} {Confronts} {Politics}}, url = {https://www.amazon.co.uk/Development-Aid-Confronts-Politics-Revolution/dp/0870034006}, abstract = {A new lens on development is changing the world of international aid. The overdue recognition that development in all sectors is an inherently political process is driving aid providers to try to learn how to think and act politically. Major donors are pursuing explicitly political goals alongside their traditional socioeconomic aims and introducing more politically informed methods throughout their work. Yet these changes face an array of external and internal obstacles, from heightened sensitivity on the part of many aid-receiving governments about foreign political interventionism to inflexible aid delivery mechanisms and entrenched technocratic preferences within many aid organizations. This pathbreaking book assesses the progress and pitfalls of the attempted politics revolution in development aid and charts a constructive way forward.}, language = {English}, publisher = {EDS Publications Ltd.}, author = {Carothers, Thomas and de Gramont, Diane}, month = apr, year = {2013}, } @book{fisher_importing_2013, address = {Dayton, Ohio}, edition = {1st edition}, title = {Importing {Democracy}: {The} {Role} of {NGO}'s in {South} {Africa}, {Tajikistan}, \& {Argentina}}, isbn = {978-0-923993-47-4}, shorttitle = {Importing {Democracy}}, abstract = {While street protesters demanding democratic reforms make headlines in the international news, Importing Democracy: The Role of NGOs in South Africa, Tajikistan, and Argentina, written by Julie Fisher and published by the Kettering Foundation Press, focuses on a quieter movement led by democratization NGOs. In South Africa, the Good Governance Learning Network shares participatory tools to make local governments more responsive. In Tajikistan, Jahan teaches local police about human rights. In Argentina, seven democratization NGOs sponsor public deliberations in local communities and have organized a nationwide citizens network to combat municipal government corruption. The book is organized around three chapters for each country, South Africa, Tajikistan, and Argentina. The first chapter of each country s section begins with the historical, political, and economic context and continues with a discussion of the general contours of civil society. The second chapter in each section deals with the role of democratization NGOs in promoting both loyal opposition and law-based civil liberties. The third chapter focuses on their role in promoting political culture and political participation. Loyal opposition and law-based civil liberties help define democratization at the national level, whereas changes in political culture and increased political partici­pation often occur throughout society. Follow­ing the nine country chapters, the book concludes with a comparative overview and implications for international policy. Fisher, a former Kettering Foundation program officer, writes that the idea that democracy can be exported has lost credibility in recent years. In many countries, however, democratization NGOs are importing democratic ideas and recovering local democratic traditions.}, language = {English}, publisher = {Kettering Foundation Press}, author = {Fisher, Julie}, collaborator = {EMacDesign and LLC}, month = apr, year = {2013}, } @book{roe_making_2013, title = {Making the {Most} of {Mess}: {Reliability} and {Policy} in {Today}'s {Management} {Challenges}}, shorttitle = {Making the {Most} of {Mess}}, abstract = {In Making the Most of Mess, Emery Roe emphasizes that policy messes cannot be avoided or cleaned up; they need to be managed. He shows how policymakers and other professionals can learn these necessary skills from control operators who manage large critical infrastructures such as water supplies, telecommunications systems, and electricity grids. The ways in which they prevent major accidents and failures offer models for policymakers and other professionals to manage the messes they face.Throughout, Roe focuses on the global financial mess of 2008 and its ongoing aftermath, showing how mismanagement has allowed it to morph into other national and international messes. More effective management is still possible for this and many other policy messes but that requires better recognition of patterns and formulation of scenarios, as well as the ability to translate pattern and scenario into reliability. Developing networks of professionals who respond to messes is particularly important. Roe describes how these networks enable the avoidance of bad or worse messes, take advantage of opportunities resulting from messes, and address societal and professional challenges. In addition to finance, he draws from a wide range of case material in other policy arenas. Roe demonstrates that knowing how to manage policy messes is the best approach to preventing crises.}, language = {English}, publisher = {Duke University Press Books}, author = {Roe, Emery}, month = mar, year = {2013}, } @book{andrews_limits_2013, address = {Cambridge}, title = {The {Limits} of {Institutional} {Reform} in {Development}: {Changing} {Rules} for {Realistic} {Solutions}}, isbn = {978-1-107-01633-0}, shorttitle = {The {Limits} of {Institutional} {Reform} in {Development}}, abstract = {Institutional reforms are common across the globe. Think of efforts to build new governments in Afghanistan and Iraq; or decades worth of interventions intended to improve fiscal management, reduce corruption or introduce efficient public sector service delivery in African countries.These reforms often have limited results, however. They lead to new laws that are not properly implemented, and new organizations that have poor capacities and fail to function as needed. In this book, Matt Andrews explains why reform results are frequently limited and suggests ways to overcome these limits. In the first half of the book, Andrews argues that reforms fail to make governments better when they are introduced as signals to gain short-term support--from donors and others. Reforms as signals introduce unrealistic best practices that do not fit developing country contexts and are not considered relevant by implementing agents. The result is a set of new forms that do not function properly. Andrews uses examples to prove this point, ranging from efforts to introduce fiscal rules in Argentina to reforms aimed at international accounting standard adoption in many African countries, and anti corruption interventions in Malawi and Uganda. In the second half of the book, Andrews notes that there are instances where reforms are not being introduced as signals, and are having more of an impact on government effectiveness. Examples include local government reforms in Rwanda, anti corruption initiatives in Indonesia, and a variety of initiatives ranging from results based management to civil service modernization and internal control regime adoption in governments like Kenya, Kosovo and Afghanistan. Andrews uses these examples to discuss ways in which reforms can actually provide realistic solutions to governance challenges in developing countries. Lessons from these experiences suggest that reform limits can be overcome by focusing interventions on problem solving, and promoting incremental and localized processes to find solutions, involving multiple agents who can authorize and implement reforms.}, language = {English}, publisher = {Cambridge University Press}, author = {Andrews, Matt}, month = feb, year = {2013}, } @book{ashley_tools_2013, title = {Tools for supporting sustainable natural resource management and livelihoods}, isbn = {978-1-84369-949-1}, language = {English}, author = {Ashley, Holly and Kenton, Nicole and Milligan, Angela}, year = {2013}, note = {OCLC: 951490115}, } @book{connolly_review_2013, title = {Review of the use of report cards for monitoring ecosystem and waterway health}, publisher = {Gladstone Healthy Harbour Partnership}, author = {Connolly, Rod and Bunn, Stuart and Campbell, Marnie and Escher, Beate and Hunter, Jane and Maxwell, Paul and Richmond, Sarah and Rissik, David and Roiko, Anne and Smart, Jim and Teasdale, Peter and Harbour, Sunrise Over Gladstone}, year = {2013}, } @book{mansuri_localizing_2013, title = {Localizing {Development} : {Does} {Participation} {Work}?}, copyright = {http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo}, isbn = {978-0-8213-8256-1}, shorttitle = {Localizing {Development}}, url = {https://openknowledge.worldbank.org/handle/10986/11859}, abstract = {The Policy Research Report Localizing Development: Does Participation Work? brings analytical rigor to a field that has been the subject of intense debate and advocacy, and billions of dollars in development aid. It briefly reviews the history of participatory development and argues that its two modalities, community-based development and local decentralization, should be treated under the broader unifying umbrella of local development. It suggests that a distinction between organic participation (endogenous efforts by civic activists to bring about change) and induced participation (large-scale efforts to engineer participation at the local level via projects) is key, and focuses on the challenges of inducing participation. The report provides a conceptual framework for thinking about participatory development and then uses this framework to conduct a comprehensive review of the literature. The framework develops the concept of “civil society failure” and explains its interaction with government and market failures. It argues that participatory development, which is often viewed as a mechanism for bypassing market and government failures by ”harnessing” civic capacity, ought to be seen instead as a mechanism that, if done right, could help to repair important civil society failures. It distills literature from anthropology, economics, sociology, and political science to outline the challenges for effective policy in this area, looking at issues such as the uncertainty of trajectories of change, the importance of context, the role of elite capture and control, the challenge of collective action, and the role of the state. The review of the evidence looks at a variety of issues: the impact of participatory projects on inclusion, civic capacity, and social cohesion; on key development outcomes, such as income, poverty, and inequality; on public service delivery; and on the quality of local public goods. It draws on the evidence to suggest several recommendations for policy, emphasizing the key role of learning-by-doing. It then reviews participatory projects funded by the World Bank and finds the majority lacking in several arenas – particularly in paying attention to context and in creating effective monitoring and evaluation systems that allow for learning.}, language = {en\_US}, urldate = {2016-04-04}, publisher = {Washington, DC: World Bank}, author = {Mansuri, Ghazala and Rao, Vijayendra}, year = {2013}, } @book{pares_guide_2013, title = {Guide to {Evaluating} {Participatory} {Processes} - {Practical} guide}, url = {http://www.academia.edu/3890167/Guide_to_Evaluating_Participatory_Processes_-_Practical_guide}, abstract = {Guide to Evaluating Participatory Processes - Practical guide}, urldate = {2013-07-20}, author = {Parés, Marc}, year = {2013}, keywords = {Academia, Biology, Computer Science, Earth Sciences, Geography, History, Law, Math, Medicine, Philosophy, Physics, Political science, Psychology, Religion, Research, economics, universities}, } @book{ramirez_utilization_2013, address = {Penang, Malaysia}, title = {Utilization focused evaluation: a primer for evaluators}, isbn = {978-983-9054-61-3}, shorttitle = {Utilization focused evaluation}, url = {https://evaluationinpractice.files.wordpress.com/2013/04/ufeenglishprimer.pdf}, abstract = {Ram\írez, R., \& Brodhead, D. (2013).\ Utilization focused evaluation: A primer for evaluators. Penang, Malaysia: Southbound. Retrieved from http://evaluationinpractice.files.wordpress.com/2013/04/ufeenglishprimer... This book, authored by Ricardo Ramírez and Dal Brodhead, is designed to support evaluators and program managers implement Utilization-focused evaluation (UFE). It includes detailed discussion of the 12 steps for implementing UFE and also provides a number of case studies to guide the user. Excerpt "Throughout this Primer we refer to the value of having a mentor to assist an evaluator who is using UFE for the first time. Our collective experiences with UFE indicated having a mentor was, for many UFE participants, an essential support and it reflects how we learned and mentored UFE. Evaluators may use elements of a UFE in their work naturally, for example by engaging users in planning the process or in assisting them in the utilization of findings. This Primer, however, walks the reader through UFE by systematically covering all of the 12 steps. It reflects deeply on the UFE evaluation practice and builds from it." (Ramírez \& Brodhead 2013) Contents What is Utilization Focused Evaluation? 1 The UFE Framework Summarized in Steps 3 The DECI Project 6 The UFE Steps Illustrated with Project Examples 9 Step 1 Assessing Program Readiness 10 Step 2 Assessing Evaluators’ Readiness 18 Step 3 Identifying Primary Intended Users 24 Step 4 Situational Analysis 31 Step 5 Identification of Primary Intended Users 38 Step 6 Focusing the Evaluation 44 Step 7 Evaluation Design 54 Step 8 Simulation of Use 58 Step 9 Data Collection 62 Step 10 Data Analysis 65 Step 11 Facilitation of Use 68 Step 12 Meta Evaluation 72 Summary About What Each Step Entails 76 What Benefit Does UFE Bring to Commissioners of Evaluation? 81 Take Away Lessons 83 Postscript 87 The UFE Checklist 89 Case Studies 103 Recommended Reading 110}, language = {English}, urldate = {2018-10-22}, publisher = {Southbound}, author = {Ramirez, Ricardo and Brodhead, Dal}, year = {2013}, note = {OCLC: 856648540}, } @book{simonsen_routledge_2013, address = {New York}, title = {Routledge international handbook of participatory design}, isbn = {978-0-415-69440-7 978-0-203-10854-3 978-1-136-26619-5 978-0-415-72021-2}, abstract = {"Participatory Design is about the direct involvement of people in the co-design of the technologies they use. Its central concern is how collaborative design processes can be driven by the participation of the people affected by the technology designed. Embracing a diverse collection of principles and practices aimed at making technologies, tools, environments, businesses, and social institutions more responsive to human needs, the International Handbook of Participatory Design is a state-of-the-art reference handbook for the subject. The Handbook brings together a multidisciplinary and international group of highly recognized and experienced experts to present an authoritative overview of the field and its history and discuss contributions and challenges of the pivotal issues in Participatory Design, including heritage, ethics, ethnography, methods, tools and techniques and community involvement. The book also highlights three large-scale case studies which show how Participatory Design has been used to bring about outstanding changes in different organisations. The book shows why Participatory Design is an important, highly relevant and rewarding area for research and practice. It will be an invaluable resource for students, researchers, scholars and professionals in Participatory Design"--}, language = {English}, publisher = {Routledge}, author = {Simonsen, Jesper and Robertson, Toni}, year = {2013}, note = {OCLC: 754734489}, } @book{anderson_time_2012, address = {Cambridge, MA}, title = {Time to {Listen}: {Hearing} {People} on the {Receiving} {End} of {International} {Aid}}, isbn = {978-0-9882544-1-1}, shorttitle = {Time to {Listen}}, abstract = {Does the way international assistance is organized make sense? Is it working as we mean it to? This book approaches these questions through the experiences of people living on the receiving side of international assistance. It reports on the ideas, insights, and analyses of almost 6,000 people across 20 countries where international aid has been provided. From such a range of locations and people, one might expect vastly different ideas and opinions. However, remarkably consistent patterns and common judgments emerged. In the midst of difference, there was striking unanimity and consistency about the processes and the effects of the international aid system. Using their words, their experiences, and their ideas, this book describes why the cumulative impacts of international aid efforts have not met expectations. It describes a way forward to make changes that, according to those on the receiving end, will lead to more effective and lasting results.}, language = {English}, publisher = {CDA Collaborative Learning Projects}, author = {Anderson, Mary B. and Brown, Dayna and Jean, Isabella}, month = dec, year = {2012}, } @book{millington_buzzing_2012, title = {Buzzing {Communities}: {How} to build bigger, better, and more active online communities}, abstract = {How to Build Bigger, Better, and More Active Online CommunitiesBuzzing Communities cuts through the fluff to offer a clear process for creating thriving online communities. This book combines a century of proven science, dozens of real-life examples, practical tips, and trusted community-building methods. This step-by-step guide includes a lifecycle for tracking your progress and a framework for managing your organization's community efforts. This Book Will Help You to Understand what the members of your community really want. Dramatically increase the number of newcomers that become regulars. Avoid the mistakes most organizations make when they try to build online communities. Develop a fantastic, user-friendly website for your members. Grow your online community to critical mass and beyond Keep members engaged and active in your community. Measure the community's return on investment and explain the benefits to your organization.}, language = {English}, publisher = {Feverbee}, author = {Millington, Richard}, month = oct, year = {2012}, } @book{bacon_art_2012, address = {Sebastopol, CA}, title = {The {Art} of {Community}: {Building} the {New} {Age} of {Participation}}, isbn = {978-1-4493-1206-0}, shorttitle = {The {Art} of {Community}}, url = {http://artofcommunityonline.org/Art_of_Community_Second_Edition.pdf}, abstract = {Online communities provide a wide range of opportunities for supporting a cause, marketing a product or service, or building open source software. The Art of Community helps you recruit members, motivate them, and manage them as active participants. Author Jono Bacon offers experiences and observations from his 14-year effort to build and manage communities, including his current position as manager for Ubuntu.Discover how your community can become a reliable support network, a valuable source of new ideas, and a powerful marketing force. This expanded edition shows you how to keep community projects on track, make use of social media, and organize collaborative events. Interviews with 12 community management leaders, including Linus Torvalds, Tim O’Reilly, and Mike Shinoda, provide useful insights.Develop specific objectives and goals for building your communityBuild processes to help contributors perform tasks, work together, and share successesProvide tools and infrastructure that enable members to work quicklyCreate buzz around your community to get more people involvedHarness social media to broadcast information, collaborate, and get feedbackUse several techniques to track progress on community goalsIdentify and manage conflict, such as dealing with divisive personalities}, language = {English}, urldate = {2018-12-19}, publisher = {O'Reilly Media}, author = {Bacon, Jono}, month = jun, year = {2012}, } @book{layton_agile_2012, address = {Hoboken, NJ}, title = {Agile {Project} {Management} {For} {Dummies}}, isbn = {978-1-118-02624-3}, abstract = {Be flexible and faster with Agile project management As mobile and web technologies continue to evolve rapidly, there is added pressure to develop and implement software projects in weeks instead of months. Agile Project Management For Dummies can make that happen. This is the first book to provide a simple, step–by–step guide to Agile Project Management approaches, tools, and techniques. With the fast pace of mobile and web technology development, software project development must keep pace; Agile Project Management enables developers to complete and implement projects more quickly and this book shows you how. Offers a practical context for understanding and applying Agile techniques, moving from theory into actual practice Explains when to use Agile and how to avoid common pitfalls Written by experts who know how to apply the principles in real–world situations Agile Project Management For Dummies enables you to understand and apply Agile principles for faster, more accurate development.}, language = {English}, publisher = {John Wiley \& Sons}, author = {Layton, Mark C.}, month = apr, year = {2012}, } @book{harford_adapt:_2012, address = {London}, title = {Adapt: {Why} {Success} {Always} {Starts} with {Failure}}, isbn = {978-0-349-12151-2}, shorttitle = {Adapt}, url = {https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B004XCFJ4S}, abstract = {Everything we know about solving the world's problems is wrong. Out: Plans, experts and above all, leaders. In: Adapting - improvise rather than plan; fail, learn, and try againIn this groundbreaking new book, Tim Harford shows how the world's most complex and important problems - including terrorism, climate change, poverty, innovation, and the financial crisis - can only be solved from the bottom up by rapid experimenting and adapting.From a spaceport in the Mojave Desert to the street battles of Iraq, from a blazing offshore drilling rig to everyday decisions in our business and personal lives, this is a handbook for surviving - and prospering - in our complex and ever-shifting world.}, language = {English}, publisher = {Abacus}, author = {Harford, Tim}, month = mar, year = {2012}, } @book{nicholls_guide_2012, title = {A guide to {Social} {Return} on {Investment}}, url = {https://socialvalueselfassessmenttool.org/wp-content/uploads/intranet/758/pdf-guide.pdf}, abstract = {There is increasing recognition that we need better ways to account for the social, economic and environmental value that results from our activities. The language varies – ‘impact’, ‘returns’, ‘benefit’, ‘value’ – but the questions around what sort of difference and how much of a difference we are making are the same. Understanding and managing this broader value is becoming increasingly important for the public and private sectors alike. This is true whether it is civil society organisations working to create value, Governments commissioning and investing in activities to create social value, investors seeking to ensure that their investments will make a difference, or private businesses recognising both risk and opportunity in the wider effects of operations. All this means that it is also more important that we have some consistency and a shared language when we talk about value. SROI is the application of a set of principles within a framework that is designed to help bring about that consistency, whilst at the same time recognising that what is of value will be very different for different people in different situations and cultures. The first edition of this guide, which itself built on the work of three earlier SROI guides1, was prepared as part of a three year programme on measuring social value funded in 2008 by the then ‘Office of the Third Sector’ based in the Cabinet Office of the UK Government. This was delivered by a consortium of organisations: the SROI Network, nef (the new economics foundation), Charities Evaluation Services, the National Council for Voluntary Organsations and New Philanthropy Capital. In addition to this programme, the Scottish Government also supported the development of SROI, including a database of indicators to support SROI analysis. The work of the SROI Network now stretches across many different countries and continents, and this second edition of the guide reflects that interest. We have though decided to use only one currency symbol, for reasons of clarity and consistency, and so have continued to use £. However, readers will be able to find examples in various currencies and translations of the Guide on our website. For more information on the developments of SROI, please refer to the SROI Network website: www.thesroinetwork.org}, urldate = {2020-10-09}, publisher = {The SROI Network}, author = {Nicholls, Jeremy and Lawlor, Eilis and Neitzert, Eva and Goodspeed, Tim}, month = mar, year = {2012}, } @book{edmondson_teaming_2012, address = {San Francisco, CA}, title = {Teaming: how organizations learn, innovate, and compete in the knowledge economy}, isbn = {978-1-118-21676-7 978-1-118-21674-3 978-1-118-21677-4}, shorttitle = {Teaming}, abstract = {New breakthrough thinking in organizational learning, leadership, and change Continuous improvement, understanding complex systems, and promoting innovation are all part of the landscape of learning challenges today's companies face. Amy Edmondson shows that organizations thrive, or fail to thrive, based on how well the small groups within those organizations work. In most organizations, the work that produces value for customers is carried out by teams, and increasingly, by flexible team-like entities. The pace of change and the fluidity of most work structures means that it's not really about creating effective teams anymore, but instead about leading effective teaming. Teaming shows that organizations learn when the flexible, fluid collaborations they encompass are able to learn. The problem is teams, and other dynamic groups, don't learn naturally. Edmondson outlines the factors that prevent them from doing so, such as interpersonal fear, irrational beliefs about failure, groupthink, problematic power dynamics, and information hoarding. With Teaming, leaders can shape these factors by encouraging reflection, creating psychological safety, and overcoming defensive interpersonal dynamics that inhibit the sharing of ideas. Further, they can use practical management strategies to help organizations realize the benefits inherent in both success and failure. Presents a clear explanation of practical management concepts for increasing learning capability for business results Introduces a framework that clarifies how learning processes must be altered for different kinds of work Explains how Collaborative Learning works, and gives tips for how to do it well Includes case-study research on Intermountain healthcare, Prudential, GM, Toyota, IDEO, the IRS, and both Cincinnati and Minneapolis Children's Hospitals, among others Based on years of research, this book shows how leaders can make organizational learning happen by building teams that learn.}, publisher = {Jossey-Bass}, author = {Edmondson, Amy C.}, year = {2012}, } @book{green_poverty_2012, edition = {Second edition}, title = {From poverty to power: how active citizens and effective states can change the world}, isbn = {978-1-85339-740-0 978-1-85339-741-7}, shorttitle = {From poverty to power}, abstract = {From Poverty to Power From Poverty to Power argues that a radical redistribution of power, opportunities, and assets rather than traditional models of charitable or government aid is required to break the cycle of poverty and inequality. The forces driving this transformation are active citizens and effective states. Published in association with Oxfam GB. Full description}, language = {eng}, author = {Green, Duncan}, collaborator = {{Oxfam GB}}, year = {2012}, } @book{holley_network_2012, title = {Network {Weaver} {Handbook}}, publisher = {Network Weaver}, author = {Holley, June}, year = {2012}, } @book{mckeown_adaptability:_2012, address = {Philadelphia, PA}, edition = {1st ed}, title = {Adaptability: the art of winning in an age of uncertainty}, isbn = {978-0-7494-6524-7 978-0-7494-6460-8}, shorttitle = {Adaptability}, publisher = {Kogan Page}, author = {McKeown, Max}, year = {2012}, keywords = {Adaptability (Psychology), Success}, } @book{schneider_set-theoretic_2012, address = {Cambrigde}, series = {Strategies for social inquiry}, title = {Set-theoretic methods for the social sciences: a guide to qualitative comparative analysis}, isbn = {978-1-107-60113-0 978-1-107-01352-0}, shorttitle = {Set-theoretic methods for the social sciences}, abstract = {"Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA) and other set-theoretic methods distinguish themselves from other approaches to the study of social phenomena by using sets and the search for set relations. In virtually all social science fields, statements about social phenomena can be framed in terms of set relations, and using set-theoretic methods to investigate these statements is therefore highly valuable. This book guides readers through the basic principles of set theory and then on to the applied practices of QCA. It provides a thorough understanding of basic and advanced issues in set-theoretic methods together with tricks of the trade, software handling and exercises. Most arguments are introduced using examples from existing research. The use of QCA is increasing rapidly and the application of set-theory is both fruitful and still widely misunderstood in current empirical comparative social research. This book provides an invaluable guide to these methods for researchers across the social sciences"--}, language = {eng}, publisher = {Cambridge Univ. Press}, author = {Schneider, Carsten Q. and Wagemann, Claudius}, year = {2012}, keywords = {Comparative method, Mathematical models, Qualitative Methode, Set theory, Social science, Vergleichende Forschung}, } @book{kniberg_lean_2011, address = {Dallas, Tex}, edition = {1 edition}, title = {Lean from the {Trenches}: {Managing} {Large}-{Scale} {Projects} with {Kanban}}, isbn = {978-1-934356-85-2}, shorttitle = {Lean from the {Trenches}}, abstract = {You know the Agile and Lean development buzzwords, you've read the books. But when systems need a serious overhaul, you need to see how it works in real life, with real situations and people. Lean from the Trenches is all about actual practice. Every key point is illustrated with a photo or diagram, and anecdotes bring you inside the project as you discover why and how one organization modernized its workplace in record time.Lean from the Trenches is all about actual practice.Find out how the Swedish police combined XP, Scrum, and Kanban in a 60-person project. From start to finish, you'll see how to deliver a successful product using Lean principles. We start with an organization in desperate need of a new way of doing things and finish with a group of sixty, all working in sync to develop a scalable, complex system. You'll walk through the project step by step, from customer engagement, to the daily "cocktail party," version control, bug tracking, and release. In this honest look at what works--and what doesn't--you'll find out how to:Make quality everyone's business, not just the testers.Keep everyone moving in the same direction without micromanagement.Use simple and powerful metrics to aid in planning and process improvement.Balance between low-level feature focus and high-level system focus.You'll be ready to jump into the trenches and streamline your own development process.}, language = {English}, publisher = {Pragmatic Bookshelf}, author = {Kniberg, Henrik}, month = dec, year = {2011}, } @book{room_complexity_2011, address = {Cheltenham, UK; Northampton, Mass.}, title = {Complexity, {Institutions} and {Public} {Policy}: {Agile} {Decision}-making in a {Turbulent} {World}}, isbn = {978-0-85793-263-1}, shorttitle = {Complexity, {Institutions} and {Public} {Policy}}, abstract = {Graham Room argues that conventional approaches to the conceptualization and measurement of social and economic change are unsatisfactory. As a result, researchers are ill-equipped to offer policy advice. This book offers a new analytical approach, combining complexity science and institutionalism. It also provides tools for policy makers in turbulent times. Part 1 is concerned with the conceptualization of socio-economic change. It integrates complexity science and institutionalism into a coherent ontology of social and policy dynamics. Part 2 is concerned with models and measurement. It combines some of the principal approaches developed in complexity analysis with models and methods drawn from mainstream social and political science. Part 3 offers empirical applications to public policy: the dynamics of social exclusion; the social dimension of knowledge economies; the current financial and economic crisis. These are supplemented by a toolkit for the practice of 'agile policy making'. This is a stimulating, provocative and highly original book. It will appeal to academics and students in social and policy studies and to a wide range of scholars in other disciplines where complexity science is already well-developed. It will also be of major interest for decision makers coping with complex and turbulent policy terrains.Contents: Preface 1. Introduction Part I: Concepts 2. The Complexity Paradigm 3. Complex Adaptive Systems 4. The Economy as a Complex Adaptive System 5. Institutional Settings and Architectures 6. Institutional Dynamics 7. The Struggle for Positional Advantage 8. Conceptualising Social Dynamics Part II: Methods 9. Attractors and Orbits in Dynamic Systems 10. Patterns in Time and Space 11. Connections and Networks 12. Mobility on Social Landscapes 13. Towards a Generic Methodology Part III: Policies 14. Agile Policy-Making 15. Poverty and Social Exclusion 16. Social Dynamics of the Knowledge Economy 17. Global Turbulence and Crisis Postscript: Tools for Policy-Makers References Index}, language = {English}, publisher = {Edward Elgar Pub}, author = {Room, Graham}, month = sep, year = {2011}, } @book{patton_essentials_2011, title = {Essentials of {Utilization}-{Focused} {Evaluation}}, isbn = {978-1-4833-0697-1}, abstract = {Based on Michael Quinn Patton's best-selling Utilization-Focused Evaluation, this briefer book provides an overall framework and essential checklist steps for designing and conducting evaluations that actually get used. The new material and innovative graphics present the utilization-focused evaluation process as a complex adaptive system, incorporating current understandings about systems thinking and complexity concepts. The book integrates theory and practice, is based on both research and professional experience, and offers new case examples and cartoons with Patton's signature humor.}, language = {en}, publisher = {SAGE Publications}, author = {Patton, Michael Quinn}, month = aug, year = {2011}, note = {Google-Books-ID: BaMgAQAAQBAJ}, keywords = {Reference / Research, Research}, } @book{funnell_purposeful_2011, title = {Purposeful {Program} {Theory}: {Effective} {Use} of {Theories} of {Change} and {Logic} {Models}}, shorttitle = {Purposeful {Program} {Theory}}, abstract = {Between good intentions and great results lies a program theory—not just a list of tasks but a vision of what needs to happen, and how. Now widely used in government and not-for-profit organizations, program theory provides a coherent picture of how change occurs and how to improve performance. Purposeful Program Theory shows how to develop, represent, and use program theory thoughtfully and strategically to suit your particular situation, drawing on the fifty-year history of program theory and the authors' experiences over more than twenty-five years."From needs assessment to intervention design, from implementation to outcomes evaluation, from policy formulation to policy execution and evaluation, program theory is paramount. But until now no book has examined these multiple uses of program theory in a comprehensive, understandable, and integrated way. This promises to be a breakthrough book, valuable to practitioners, program designers, evaluators, policy analysts, funders, and scholars who care about understanding why an intervention works or doesn't work." —Michael Quinn Patton, author, Utilization-Focused Evaluation"Finally, the definitive guide to evaluation using program theory! Far from the narrow 'one true way' approaches to program theory, this book provides numerous practical options for applying program theory to fulfill different purposes and constraints, and guides the reader through the sound critical thinking required to select from among the options. The tour de force of the history and use of program theory is a truly global view, with examples from around the world and across the full range of content domains. A must-have for any serious evaluator." —E. Jane Davidson, PhD, Real Evaluation Ltd.Companion Web site: josseybass.com/go/funnellrogers}, language = {Inglés}, author = {Funnell, Sue C. and Rogers, Patricia J.}, month = feb, year = {2011}, } @book{funnell_purposeful_2011, title = {Purposeful {Program} {Theory}: {Effective} {Use} of {Theories} of {Change} and {Logic} {Models}}, shorttitle = {Purposeful {Program} {Theory}}, url = {https://www.wiley.com/en-au/Purposeful+Program+Theory%3A+Effective+Use+of+Theories+of+Change+and+Logic+Models-p-9780470478578}, abstract = {Program Theory in Evaluation Practice is a ground-breaking reference that teaches how to develop an explicit causal model that links an intervention (project, program or policy) with its intended or observed impacts and using this to guide monitoring and evaluation. Peerless in its explanation of why and how to use and develop program theory, the book is rich with examples and alternative approaches. The book is an invaluable resource to faculty and students as well as professionals in professional development programs, education, social work, and counseling.}, language = {en-au}, urldate = {2023-01-12}, publisher = {Wiley}, author = {Funnell, Sue C. and Rogers, Patricia J.}, month = feb, year = {2011}, } @book{brar_science_2011, series = {A {World} {Bank} {Study}}, title = {Science, {Technology}, and {Innovation} in {Uganda}: {Recommendations} for {Policy} and {Action}}, url = {http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/188271468115452838/pdf/588440PUB0Scie101public10BOX353816B.pdf}, publisher = {World Bank}, author = {Brar, Sukdeep and Farley, Sara E. and Hawkins, Robert and Wagner, Caroline S.}, year = {2011}, } @book{jones_taking_2011, address = {London}, title = {Taking responsibility for complexity: how implementation can achieve results in the face of complex problems}, isbn = {978-1-907288-39-5}, shorttitle = {Taking responsibility for complexity}, url = {http://www.odi.org.uk/resources/download/5275.pdf}, language = {en}, urldate = {2019-03-12}, publisher = {ODI}, author = {Jones, Harry}, year = {2011}, note = {OCLC: 837825712}, } @book{plattner_design_2011, address = {Berlin}, series = {Understanding innovation}, title = {Design thinking: understand - improve - apply}, isbn = {978-3-642-13756-3 978-3-642-13757-0}, shorttitle = {Design thinking}, abstract = {"In this book, the researchers take a system's view that begins with a demand for deep, evidence-based understanding of design thinking phenomena. They continue with an exploration of tools which can help improve the adaptive expertise needed for design thinking. The final part of the book concerns design thinking in information technology and its relevance for business process modeling and agile software development, i.e. real world creation and deployment of products, services, and enterprise systems"--Cover}, language = {eng}, publisher = {Springer}, editor = {Plattner, Hasso and Meinel, Christoph and Leifer, Larry}, year = {2011}, keywords = {Creative ability in business, Creative thinking, Designer, Industrial management, Innovation, Organizational change, Product development, System design, Technological innovations}, } @book{cornwall_deconstructing_2010, address = {Oxford}, title = {Deconstructing {Development} {Discourse}: {Buzzwords} and {Fuzzwords}}, shorttitle = {Deconstructing {Development} {Discourse}}, url = {http://policy-practice.oxfam.org.uk/publications/deconstructing-development-discourse-buzzwords-and-fuzzwords-118173}, abstract = {Writing from diverse locations, contributors critically examine some of the key terms in current development discourse. Why should language matter to those who are doing development? Surely, there are more urgent things to do than sit around mulling over semantics?}, urldate = {2017-04-11}, publisher = {Oxfam \& Practical Action Publishing}, editor = {Cornwall, Andrea and Eade, Deborah}, month = nov, year = {2010}, } @book{patton_developmental_2010, address = {New York}, edition = {1 edition}, title = {Developmental {Evaluation}: {Applying} {Complexity} {Concepts} to {Enhance} {Innovation} and {Use}}, isbn = {978-1-60623-872-1}, shorttitle = {Developmental {Evaluation}}, abstract = {Developmental evaluation (DE) offers a powerful approach to monitoring and supporting social innovations by working in partnership with program decision makers. In this book, eminent authority Michael Quinn Patton shows how to conduct evaluations within a DE framework. Patton draws on insights about complex dynamic systems, uncertainty, nonlinearity, and emergence. He illustrates how DE can be used for a range of purposes: ongoing program development, adapting effective principles of practice to local contexts, generating innovations and taking them to scale, and facilitating rapid response in crisis situations. Students and practicing evaluators will appreciate the book's extensive case examples and stories, cartoons, clear writing style, "closer look" sidebars, and summary tables. Provided is essential guidance for making evaluations useful, practical, and credible in support of social change.See also Developmental Evaluation Exemplars, edited by Michael Quinn Patton, Kate McKegg, and Nan Wehipeihana, which presents 12 in-depth case studies.}, language = {English}, publisher = {Guilford Press}, author = {Patton, Michael Quinn}, month = aug, year = {2010}, keywords = {Evaluation, Measurement, Organizational effectiveness, Project management}, } @book{ragin_what_2010, address = {Cambridge England ; New York, NY, USA}, edition = {11th ed. edition}, title = {What {Is} a {Case}?: {Exploring} the {Foundations} of {Social} {Inquiry}}, isbn = {978-0-521-42188-1}, shorttitle = {What {Is} a {Case}?}, url = {https://www.cambridge.org/gb/academic/subjects/sociology/research-methods-sociology-and-criminology/what-case-exploring-foundations-social-inquiry?format=PB&isbn=9780521421881}, abstract = {The concept of the case is a basic feature of social science research and yet many questions about how a case should be defined, selected, and judged are far from settled. The contributors to this volume probe the nature of the case and the ways in which different understandings of the concept affect the conduct and the results of research. The contributions demonstrate that the work of any given researcher is often characterised by some hybrid of these basic approaches, and it is important to understand that most research involves multiple definitions and uses of cases, as both specific empirical phenomena and as general theoretical categories.}, language = {English}, publisher = {Cambridge University Press}, author = {Ragin, Charles}, month = aug, year = {2010}, } @book{mcneil_demanding_2010, address = {Washington, D.C}, title = {Demanding {Good} {Governance}: {Lessons} from {Social} {Accountability} {Initiatives} in {Africa}}, isbn = {978-0-8213-8380-3}, shorttitle = {Demanding {Good} {Governance}}, abstract = {Accountability is the cornerstone of good governance. Unless public officials can be held to account, then critical benefits associated with good governance, such as social justice, poverty reduction and development remain elusive. The impacts of non-responsive and unaccountable governance are perhaps most harshly felt by the citizens of Africa, where corruption and governance failures are broadly acknowledged as a principal obstacle to the achievement Over the past decade, a range of social accountability practices―such as participatory budgeting, independent budget analysis, participatory monitoring of public expenditure and citizen evaluation of public services have been experimented with in many Africa countries. Their outcomes and lessons have, thus far, received little attend and documentation. This volume aims to make a contribution towards filling this gap by describing and analyzing a selection of social accountability initiatives from seven Sub-Saharan countries.}, language = {English}, publisher = {World Bank Publications}, editor = {McNeil, Mary and Malena, Carmen}, month = jun, year = {2010}, } @book{woodward_practical_2010, address = {Upper Saddle River, NJ}, title = {A {Practical} {Guide} to {Distributed} {Scrum}}, isbn = {978-0-13-704113-8}, abstract = {Succeed with Scrum in Even the Largest, Most Complex Distributed Development Projects Forewords by Ken Schwaber, Scott Ambler, Roman Pichler, and Matthew Wang This is the first comprehensive, practical guide for Scrum practitioners working in large-scale distributed environments. Written by three of IBM’s leading Scrum practitioners--in close collaboration with the IBM QSE Scrum Community of more than 1000 members worldwide--this book offers specific, actionable guidance for everyone who wants to succeed with Scrum in the enterprise. Readers will follow a journey through the lifecycle of a distributed Scrum project, from envisioning products and setting up teams to preparing for Sprint planning and running retrospectives. Each chapter presents a baseline drawn from “conventional” Scrum, then discusses additional issues faced by distributed teams, and presents specific best-practice solutions, alternatives, and tips the authors have identified through hard, empirical experience. Using real-world examples, the book demonstrates how to apply key Scrum practices, such as look-ahead planning in geographically distributed environments. Readers will also gain valuable new insights into the agile management of complex problem and technical domains. Coverage includes•  Developing user stories and working with Product Owners as a distributed team•  Recognizing and fixing the flaws Scrum may reveal in existing processes•  Engaging in more efficient Release and Sprint planning•  Conducting intense, brief daily Scrum meetings in distributed environments•  Managing cultural and language differences•  Resolving dependencies, performing frequent integration, and maintaining transparency in geographically distributed environments•  Successfully running remote software reviews and demos•  Brainstorming what worked and what didn’t, to improve future Sprints This book will be an indispensable resource for every team leader, member, product owner, or manager working with Scrum or other agile methods in any distributed software development organization.}, language = {English}, publisher = {IBM Press}, author = {Woodward, Elizabeth and Surdek, Steffan and Ganis, Matthew}, month = jun, year = {2010}, } @book{d.school_bootcamp_2010, address = {Stanford}, title = {Bootcamp {Bootleg} {Design} {Thinking} {Toolkit}}, url = {https://static1.squarespace.com/static/57c6b79629687fde090a0fdd/t/58890239db29d6cc6c3338f7/1485374014340/METHODCARDS-v3-slim.pdf}, urldate = {2016-09-21}, publisher = {Institute of Design, Stanford University}, author = {d.school}, year = {2010}, keywords = {IMPORTANT}, } @book{dozois_201:_2010, address = {Montréal, Que.}, title = {{DE} 201: {A} practitioner's guide to developmental evaluation}, isbn = {978-1-55058-424-0}, shorttitle = {{DE} 201}, url = {https://mcconnellfoundation.ca/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/DE-201-EN.pdf}, abstract = {Developmental evaluation has emerged fairly recently as a way to support adaptive learning in complex and emergent initiatives. Combining the rigour of evaluation with the flexibility and imagination required for development, this new form of evaluation brings critical thinking to bear on the creative process in initiatives involving high levels of uncertainty, innovation, emergence, and social complexity. This guidebook from J.W. McConnell Family Foundation and the International Institute for Child Rights and Development explores key aspects of Developmental Evaluation (DE) and offers suggestions for implementing the practice and includes a range of DE resources to help with its facilitation. Contents What is developmental evaluation? When is developmental evaluation appropriate? What competencies are needed to be an effective DE? How is developmental evaluation practiced? Challenges Appendices Assessing Readiness Stakeholder analysis Sample Learning Framework Systems Analysis Framework - Key Components Data Analysis Resources}, language = {English}, urldate = {2018-10-13}, publisher = {J.W. McConnell Family Foundation}, author = {Dozois, Elizabeth and Langlois, Marc and Blanchet-Cohen, Natasha}, year = {2010}, note = {OCLC: 713183293}, } @book{kay_obliquity:_2010, address = {New York}, title = {Obliquity: {Why} {Our} {Goals} {Are} {Best} {Achieved} {Indirectly}}, shorttitle = {Obliquity}, abstract = {"John Kay tells a fast-paced detective story as he searches for the surprising secret to success...Brilliant." -Tim Harford, author of The Logic of Life In this revolutionary book, economist John Kay proves a notion that feels at once paradoxical and deeply commonsensical: the best way to achieve any complex or broadly defined goal, from happiness to preventing forest fires, is the indirect way. We can learn how to achieve our objectives only through a gradual process of risk taking and discovery-what Kay calls obliquity. The author traces this seemingly counterintuitive path to success as it manifests itself in nearly every aspect of life, including business, politics, sports, and more.}, language = {English}, publisher = {Penguin Books}, author = {Kay, John}, year = {2010}, } @book{murray_open_2010, title = {The open book of social innovation}, publisher = {Young Foundation \& NESTA}, author = {Murray, Robin and Caulier-Grice, Julie and Mulgan, Geoff}, year = {2010}, } @book{oecd_quality_2010, address = {Paris, France}, title = {Quality standards for development evaluation}, isbn = {978-92-64-08390-5}, url = {https://doi.org/10.1787/9789264167100-ar}, abstract = {Based on a broad international consultative process, the DAC Quality Standards for Development Evaluation are a reference guide to good practice in development evaluation. With a view to improving the quality of evaluation processes and products, and facilitating collaboration, this reference guide lays out standards for each phase of a typical evaluation process: from defining purpose, to planning, designing, implementing, reporting, and learning from and using evaluation results.}, language = {en}, urldate = {2019-11-27}, publisher = {OECD}, author = {{OECD} and {Development Assistance Committee}}, year = {2010}, note = {OCLC: 631212078}, } @book{pascale_power_2010, address = {Boston}, title = {The {Power} of {Positive} {Deviance}}, publisher = {Harvard Business Press}, author = {Pascale, Richard and Sternin, Jerry and Sternin, Monique}, year = {2010}, } @book{steps_centre_innovation_2010, title = {Innovation, {Sustainability}, {Development}: {A} {New} {Manifesto}}, copyright = {http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/}, shorttitle = {Innovation, {Sustainability}, {Development}}, url = {https://opendocs.ids.ac.uk/opendocs/handle/123456789/2446}, abstract = {Our Manifesto project publication is available in print, on CD or to view online. Innovation, Sustainability, Development: A New Manifesto recommends new ways of linking science and innovation to development for a more sustainable, equitable and resilient future. The multimedia version, with added audio, video and background documents, is available on CD and online.}, language = {en}, urldate = {2018-05-14}, publisher = {STEPS Centre}, author = {STEPS Centre}, year = {2010}, } @book{unsworth_upside_2010, address = {Brighton}, title = {An {Upside} {Down} {View} of {Governance}}, url = {http://www.ids.ac.uk/idspublication/an-upside-down-view-of-governance}, abstract = {Informal institutions and personalised relationships are usually seen as governance problems. However the research presented in this synthesis paper suggests that they can also be part of the solution...}, language = {en}, urldate = {2018-01-15}, publisher = {Institute of Development Studies}, editor = {Unsworth, Sue}, year = {2010}, } @book{brown_change_2009, address = {New York}, title = {Change by {Design}: {How} {Design} {Thinking} {Transforms} {Organizations} and {Inspires} {Innovation}}, isbn = {978-0-06-176608-4}, shorttitle = {Change by {Design}}, abstract = {The myth of innovation is that brilliant ideas leap fully formed from the minds of geniuses. The reality is that most innovations come from a process of rigorous examination through which great ideas are identified and developed before being realized as new offerings and capabilities. This book introduces the idea of design thinking‚ the collaborative process by which the designer′s sensibilities and methods are employed to match people′s needs not only with what is technically feasible and a viable business strategy. In short‚ design thinking converts need into demand. It′s a human−centered approach to problem solving that helps people and organizations become more innovative and more creative. Design thinking is not just applicable to so−called creative industries or people who work in the design field. It′s a methodology that has been used by organizations such as Kaiser Permanente to increase the quality of patient care by re−examining the ways that their nurses manage shift change‚ or Kraft to rethink supply chain management. This is not a book by designers for designers; this is a book for creative leaders seeking to infuse design thinking into every level of an organization‚ product‚ or service to drive new alternatives for business and society.}, language = {English}, publisher = {HarperBusiness}, author = {Brown, Tim}, month = sep, year = {2009}, keywords = {IMPORTANT}, } @book{hearn_making_2009, title = {Making {Outcome} {Mapping} {Work} - {Volume} 2 - {Innovations} in {Participatory} {Planning}, {Monitoring} and {Evaluation}}, language = {en}, publisher = {Outcome Mapping Learning Community}, editor = {Hearn, Simon and Schaeffer, Heidi and van Ongevalle, JAn}, month = sep, year = {2009}, } @book{highsmith_agile_2009, address = {Upper Saddle River, NJ}, title = {Agile {Project} {Management}: {Creating} {Innovative} {Products}}, isbn = {978-0-321-65839-5}, shorttitle = {Agile {Project} {Management}}, abstract = {Best practices for managing projects in agile environments―now updated with new techniques for larger projectsToday, the pace of project management moves faster. Project management needs to become more flexible and far more responsive to customers. Using Agile Project Management (APM), project managers can achieve all these goals without compromising value, quality, or business discipline. In Agile Project Management, Second Edition, renowned agile pioneer Jim Highsmith thoroughly updates his classic guide to APM, extending and refining it to support even the largest projects and organizations.  Writing for project leaders, managers, and executives at all levels, Highsmith integrates the best project management, product management, and software development practices into an overall framework designed to support unprecedented speed and mobility. The many topics added in this new edition include incorporating agile values, scaling agile projects, release planning, portfolio governance, and enhancing organizational agility. Project and business leaders will especially appreciate Highsmith’s new coverage of promoting agility through performance measurements based on value, quality, and constraints. This edition’s coverage includes: Understanding the agile revolution’s impact on product development Recognizing when agile methods will work in project management, and when they won’t Setting realistic business objectives for Agile Project Management Promoting agile values and principles across the organizationUtilizing a proven Agile Enterprise Framework that encompasses governance, project and iteration management, and technical practicesOptimizing all five stages of the agile project: Envision, Speculate, Explore, Adapt, and CloseOrganizational and product-related processes for scaling agile to the largest projects and teamsAgile project governance solutions for executives and management  The “Agile Triangle”: measuring performance in ways that encourage agility instead of discouraging itThe changing role of the agile project leader}, language = {English}, publisher = {Addison Wesley}, author = {Highsmith, Jim}, month = jul, year = {2009}, } @book{heeks_impact_2009, address = {Manchester}, title = {Impact assessment of {ICT}-for-development projects a compendium of approaches}, isbn = {978-1-905469-03-1}, language = {English}, publisher = {University of Manchester. Institute for development policy and management (IDPM)}, author = {Heeks, Richard and Molla, Alemayehu}, year = {2009}, note = {OCLC: 686761171}, } @book{malena_political_2009, title = {From {Political} {Won}'t to {Political} {Will}: {Building} {Support} for {Participatory} {Governance}}, isbn = {978-1-56549-311-7}, shorttitle = {From {Political} {Won}'t to {Political} {Will}}, abstract = {* Geographically diverse examples of participatory governance in action* Practical case studies show how citizens can participate more fully in the political process Despite a recent wave of democratization around the world, traditional systems of representative democracy seem to be in crisis. Citizens in both the North and the South lack opportunities, rights and access to information and have expressed growing disillusionment with their governments. Ordinary citizens (especially women, poor people and other marginalized groups) are largely excluded from the political processes that directly affect their lives. There is now growing consensus that good governance is participatory governance (PG), but public officials are often reluctant to adopt such an approach. From Political Won’t to Political Will addresses the particular challenge of encouraging these officials to involve citizens in the political process. The book presents contributions by participants from CIVICUS’ 2008 conference on building political will for PG. Representing the perspectives of both civil society and government actors, they propose a number of strategies and lessons such as demonstrating the benefits of PG to governments, complementing formal democratic institutions, building trust, supporting PG champions and using strategic political timing. Their practical and highly original findings will interest anyone eager to see the empowerment of people around the world.}, language = {en}, publisher = {Kumarian Press}, author = {Malena, Carmen}, year = {2009}, note = {Google-Books-ID: xILlSXw3D5oC}, } @book{oreilly_key_2009, address = {London}, title = {Key {Concepts} in {Ethnography}}, publisher = {SAGE Publications}, author = {O'Reilly, Karen}, year = {2009}, } @book{swanson_creating_2009, address = {Ottawa}, title = {Creating adaptive policies: a guide for policymaking in an uncertain world}, isbn = {978-81-321-0147-5}, shorttitle = {Creating adaptive policies}, language = {en}, publisher = {IDRC}, editor = {Swanson, Darren and Bhadwal, Suruchi}, year = {2009}, note = {OCLC: ocn421532510}, keywords = {Adaptive natural resource management, Environmental policy, Government policy, Sustainable development}, } @book{wenger_digital_2009, address = {Portland}, title = {Digital habitats: stewarding technology for communities}, isbn = {978-0-9825036-0-7}, shorttitle = {Digital habitats}, language = {eng}, publisher = {CPsquare}, author = {Wenger, Etienne and White, Nancy and Smith, John D.}, year = {2009}, note = {OCLC: 602796157}, } @book{wenger_digital_2009, address = {Portland, OR}, title = {Digital habitats: stewarding technology for communities. {Chapter} 10 - {Action} {Book}}, isbn = {978-0-9825036-0-7}, shorttitle = {Digital habitats}, url = {https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ClBH0hRifzfT7PWe2SonqBAodCNWuSKGiBUMtnfziMk/edit?hl=en_US&pli=1}, language = {en}, publisher = {Cpsquare}, author = {Wenger, Etienne and White, Nancy and Smith, John D.}, year = {2009}, note = {OCLC: 602796157}, } @book{meadows_thinking_2008, title = {Thinking in {Systems}: {A} {Primer}}, shorttitle = {Thinking in {Systems}}, abstract = {In the years following her role as the lead author of the international bestseller, Limits to Growth—the first book to show the consequences of unchecked growth on a finite planet— Donella Meadows remained a pioneer of environmental and social analysis until her untimely death in 2001.Thinking in Systems, is a concise and crucial book offering insight for problem solving on scales ranging from the personal to the global. Edited by the Sustainability Institute’s Diana Wright, this essential primer brings systems thinking out of the realm of computers and equations and into the tangible world, showing readers how to develop the systems-thinking skills that thought leaders across the globe consider critical for 21st-century life.Some of the biggest problems facing the world—war, hunger, poverty, and environmental degradation—are essentially system failures. They cannot be solved by fixing one piece in isolation from the others, because even seemingly minor details have enormous power to undermine the best efforts of too-narrow thinking.While readers will learn the conceptual tools and methods of systems thinking, the heart of the book is grander than methodology. Donella Meadows was known as much for nurturing positive outcomes as she was for delving into the science behind global dilemmas. She reminds readers to pay attention to what is important, not just what is quantifiable, to stay humble, and to stay a learner.In a world growing ever more complicated, crowded, and interdependent, Thinking in Systems helps readers avoid confusion and helplessness, the first step toward finding proactive and effective solutions.}, language = {English}, publisher = {Chelsea Green Publishing}, author = {Meadows, Donella H.}, editor = {Wright, Diana}, month = dec, year = {2008}, } @book{edson_systems_2008, title = {Systems {Thinking}. {Applied}. {A} primer}, volume = {1.1}, url = {http://www.anser.org/docs/systems_thinking_applied.pdf}, urldate = {2018-03-09}, publisher = {ASysT Institute}, author = {Edson, Robert}, month = oct, year = {2008}, } @book{cornwall_democratising_2008, address = {London}, title = {Democratising {Engagement}: {What} the {UK} {Can} {Learn} from {International} {Experience}}, isbn = {1-84180-198-4}, shorttitle = {Democratising {Engagement}}, publisher = {Demos}, author = {Cornwall, Andrea}, month = apr, year = {2008}, } @book{kaminski_linking_2008, title = {Linking {Assessment} to {Instruction}: {Using} {Dynamic} {Indicators} of {Basic} {Early} {Literacy} {Skills} in an {Outcomes}-{Driven} {Model}}, url = {https://dibels.org/papers/PM_BDA_032708.pdf}, abstract = {As educators increasingly are held responsible for student achievement, school personnel struggle to find ways to effectively document student responsiveness to interventions and track progress toward important outcomes. While many educators focus on high-stakes tests as a means of documenting student achievement of important outcomes, other assessment approaches may be better suited to assessing student progress. Assessment that can be used to adapt teaching to meet student needs is called formative assessment. Because the primary purpose of formative assessment is to support student learning, it may arguably be considered the most important assessment practice in which educators engage. This paper will focus on linking assessment to instruction to improve student outcomes through the use of Dynamic Indicators of Basic Early Literacy Skills (DIBELS) within an Outcomes-Driven Model.}, urldate = {2018-09-22}, publisher = {Dynamic Measurement Group}, author = {Kaminski, Ruth and Cummings, Kelli}, year = {2008}, } @book{shell_international_scenarios:_2008, address = {The Hague The Netherlands}, title = {Scenarios: {An} {Explorer}'s {Guide}}, url = {https://www.shell.com/energy-and-innovation/the-energy-future/scenarios/new-lenses-on-the-future/earlier-scenarios/_jcr_content/par/expandablelist/expandablesection_842430368.stream/1447230877395/5ab112e96191fa79e1d30c31dc6e5cd2ce19ed518a4c1445ab32aa4c4b5c7ec5/shell-scenarios-explorersguide.pdf}, abstract = {Exploring the Future The future is ‘terra incognita’: although we may be able to guess the outcome of events that lie close to us, as we project beyond this we enter an unmapped zone full of uncertainty. Paradoxically, the range of options this reveals can seem paralysing. No one can definitively map the future, but we can explore the possibilities in ways that are specifically intended to support decision-making. At Shell we use scenario building to help us wrestle with the developments and behaviours that shape what the future may hold and prepare ourselves more effectively. We also believe it can inspire individuals and organisations to play a more active role in shaping a better future - for themselves, or even on a global scale. In this book, we use a metaphor of exploration and map-making to describe how we think about building scenarios. Like a set of maps describing different aspects of a landscape, scenarios provide us with a range of perspectives on what might happen, helping us to navigate more successfully. Exploration - of a territory or the future - involves both analytical thinking rooted in whatever facts are clear, and also informed intuition. This book describes the approach used to develop a set of global scenarios, ‘People and Connections’ several years ago under the guidance of Ged Davis. Since then, scenarios guided by Albert Bressand have been published, and more recently Shell has published a summary of its Energy Scenarios, ‘Scramble’ and ‘Blueprints’, developed under the guidance of the current leadership. These have built on, and extended, our approach. Indeed, Shell has been working with scenarios for almost 40 years, and we are still learning. Since the environment we live and work in is constantly changing, building scenarios demands continual innovation and creativity.}, urldate = {2018-03-09}, publisher = {Shell International BV}, author = {{Shell International}}, year = {2008}, } @book{shore_art_2007, address = {Sebastopol, CA}, title = {The {Art} of {Agile} {Development}}, isbn = {978-0-596-52767-9}, url = {http://www.jamesshore.com/Agile-Book/}, abstract = {The Art of Agile Development contains practical guidance for anyone considering or applying agile development for building valuable software. Plenty of books describe what agile development is or why it helps software projects succeed, but very few combine information for developers, managers, testers, and customers into a single package that they can apply directly. This book provides no-nonsense advice on agile planning, development, delivery, and management taken from the authors' many years of experience with Extreme Programming (XP). You get a gestalt view of the agile development process, including comprehensive guidance for non-technical readers and hands-on technical practices for developers and testers. The Art of Agile Development gives you clear answers to questions such as: How can we adopt agile development? Do we really need to pair program? What metrics should we report? What if I can't get my customer to participate? How much documentation should we write? When do we design and architect? As a non-developer, how should I work with my agile team? Where is my product roadmap? How does QA fit in? The book teaches you how to adopt XP practices, describes each practice in detail, then discusses principles that will allow you to modify XP and create your own agile method. In particular, this book tackles the difficult aspects of agile development: the need for cooperation and trust among team members. Whether you're currently part of an agile team, working with an agile team, or interested in agile development, this book provides the practical tips you need to start practicing agile development. As your experience grows, the book will grow with you, providing exercises and information that will teach you first to understand the rules of agile development, break them, and ultimately abandon rules altogether as you master the art of agile development."Jim Shore and Shane Warden expertly explain the practices and benefits of Extreme Programming. They offer advice from their real-world experiences in leading teams. They answer questions about the practices and show contraindications - ways that a practice may be mis-applied. They offer alternatives you can try if there are impediments to applying a practice, such as the lack of an on-site customer.--Ken Pugh, Author of Jolt Award Winner, Prefactoring "I will leave a copy of this book with every team I visit."--Brian Marick, Exampler Consulting}, language = {English}, publisher = {O'Reilly Media}, author = {Shore, James and Warden, Shane}, month = nov, year = {2007}, keywords = {IMPORTANT}, } @book{easterly_white_2007, address = {Oxford}, title = {The {White} {Man}'s {Burden}: {Why} the {West}'s {Efforts} to {Aid} the {Rest} {Have} {Done} {So} {Much} {Ill} and {So} {Little}: {Why} the {West}'s {Efforts} to {Aid} the {Rest} {Have} {Done} {So} {Much} {Ill} and {So} {Little} {Good}}, isbn = {978-0-19-922611-5}, shorttitle = {The {White} {Man}'s {Burden}}, abstract = {We are all aware of the extreme hunger and poverty that afflict the world's poor. We hear the facts, see the images on television, buy the T-shirt and are moved as individuals and governments to dig deep into our pockets. Yet what happens to all this aid? Why after 50 years and \$2.3 trillion are there still children dying for lack of twelve cents medicine? Why are there so many people still living on less than \$1 a day without clean water, food, sanitation, shelter, education or medicine? In The White Man's Burden William Easterly, acclaimed author and former economist at the World Bank, addresses these twin tragedies head on. While recognising the energy and compassion behind the campaign to make poverty history he argues urgently and powerfully that grand plans and good intentions are a part of the problem not the solution. Giving aid is not enough, we must ensure that it reaches the people who need it most and the only way to make this happens is through accountability and by learning from past experiences. Without claiming to have all the answers, William Easterly chastises the complacent and patronising attitude of the West that attempts to impose solutions from above. In this book, which is by turns angry, moving, irreverent but always rigorous, he calls on each and everyone of us to take responsibility, whether donors, aid workers or ordinary citizens, so that more aid reaches the people it is supposed to help, the mother who cannot feed her children, the little girl who has to collect firewood rather than go to school, the father who cannot work because he has been crippled by war.}, language = {English}, publisher = {Oxford University Press}, author = {Easterly, William}, month = sep, year = {2007}, } @book{wallace_aid_2007, address = {Rugby}, title = {The {Aid} {Chain}: {Coercion} and {Commitment} in {Development} {NGOs}}, isbn = {978-1-85339-626-7}, shorttitle = {The {Aid} {Chain}}, abstract = {Significant proportions of aid already flow through the non-governmental sector, but questions are increasingly being asked about the role of NGOs and whether they can deliver on their ambitious claims. This study examines conditionality and mutual commitment between international aid donors and recipient NGOs, North and South. Fieldwork and case study material from Uganda and South Africa are used to support the authors’ contention that the fast changing aid sector has--in the context of a dynamic policy environment--encouraged the mainstreaming of a managerial approach that does not admit of any analysis of power relations or cultural diversity. This increasing--essentially technical-- definition of the roles of NGOs has worked to limit the extent of the very development that the organizations were initially established to promote.}, language = {English}, publisher = {Practical Action}, author = {Wallace, Tina and Bornstein, Lisa and Chapman, Jennifer}, month = sep, year = {2007}, } @book{jones_making_2007, address = {Ottawa}, title = {Making {Outcome} {Mapping} {Work} - {Evolving} experiences from around the {World}}, url = {https://www.odi.org/publications/3639-making-outcome-mapping-work-evolving-experiences-around-world}, language = {en}, urldate = {2020-10-09}, publisher = {Outcome Mapping Learning Community}, editor = {Jones, Harry}, month = mar, year = {2007}, } @book{cornwall_spaces_2006, title = {Spaces for {Change}? {The} {Politics} of {Citizen} {Participation} in {New} {Democratic} {Arenas}}, url = {http://www.press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/distributed/S/bo20852321.html}, abstract = {The book Spaces for Change?: The Politics of Citizen Participation in New Democratic Arenas}, urldate = {2016-03-23}, publisher = {Zed Books}, author = {Cornwall, Andrea and {Vera Schattan Coelho}}, month = nov, year = {2006}, } @book{walker_resilience_2006, address = {Washington, DC}, edition = {None ed. edition}, title = {Resilience {Thinking}: {Sustaining} {Ecosystems} and {People} in a {Changing} {World}}, isbn = {978-1-59726-093-0}, shorttitle = {Resilience {Thinking}}, abstract = {Increasingly, cracks are appearing in the capacity of communities, ecosystems, and landscapes to provide the goods and services that sustain our planet's well-being. The response from most quarters has been for "more of the same" that created the situation in the first place: more control, more intensification, and greater efficiency. "Resilience thinking" offers a different way of understanding the world and a new approach to managing resources. It embraces human and natural systems as complex entities continually adapting through cycles of change and seeks to understand the qualities of a system that must be maintained or enhanced in order to achieve sustainability. It explains why greater efficiency by itself cannot solve resource problems and offers a constructive alternative that opens up options rather than closing them down. In "Resilience Thinking", scientist Brian Walker and science writer David Salt present an accessible introduction to the emerging paradigm of resilience. The book arose out of appeals from colleagues in science and industry for a plainly written account of what resilience is all about and how a resilience approach differs from current practices. Rather than complicated theory, the book offers a conceptual overview along with five case studies of resilience thinking in the real world. It is an engaging and important work for anyone interested in managing risk in a complex world.}, language = {English}, publisher = {Island Press}, author = {Walker, Brian and Salt, David and Reid, Walter V.}, month = aug, year = {2006}, } @book{ashley_participation_2006, address = {London}, title = {Participation by the poor in {Luang} {Prabang} tourism economy: current earnings and opportunities for expansion}, isbn = {978-0-85003-816-3}, shorttitle = {Participation by the poor in {Luang} {Prabang} tourism economy}, url = {http://www.odi.org.uk/publications/working_papers/wp273.pdf}, language = {en}, urldate = {2020-08-19}, publisher = {ODI}, author = {Ashley, Caroline}, year = {2006}, note = {OCLC: 836665277}, } @book{stake_multiple_2006, address = {New York}, title = {Multiple case study analysis}, isbn = {978-1-59385-248-1 978-1-59385-249-8}, url = {https://www.amazon.com/Multiple-Study-Analysis-Robert-Stake/dp/1593852487}, abstract = {Examining situational complexity is a vital part of social and behavioral science research. This engaging text provides an effective process for studying multiple cases--such as sets of teachers, staff development sessions, or clinics operating in different locations--within one complex program. The process also can be used to investigate broadly occurring phenomena without programmatic links, such as leadership or sibling rivalry. Readers learn to design, analyze, and report studies that balance common issues across the group of cases with the unique features and context of each case. Three actual case reports from a transnational early childhood program illustrate the author's approach, and helpful reproducible worksheets facilitate multicase recording and analysis.}, publisher = {The Guilford Press}, author = {Stake, Robert E.}, year = {2006}, keywords = {Case method, Cross-cultural studies, Education, Europe, Eastern, Research Methodology, Step by Step (Program)}, } @book{gibson_samaritans_2005, address = {New York}, title = {The {Samaritan}'s {Dilemma}: {The} {Political} {Economy} of {Development} {Aid}}, isbn = {978-0-19-927885-5}, shorttitle = {The {Samaritan}'s {Dilemma}}, abstract = {What's wrong with foreign aid? Many policymakers, aid practitioners, and scholars have called into question its ability to increase economic growth, alleviate poverty, or promote social development. At the macro level, only tenuous links between development aid and improved living conditions have been found. At the micro level, only a few programs outlast donor support and even fewer appear to achieve lasting improvements. The authors of this book argue that much of aid's failure is related to the institutions that structure its delivery. These institutions govern the complex relationships between the main actors in the aid delivery system and often generate a series of perverse incentives that promote inefficient and unsustainable outcomes. In their analysis, the authors apply the theoretical insights of the new institutional economics to several settings. First, they investigate the institutions of Sida, the Swedish aid agency, to analyze how that aid agency's institutions can produce incentives inimical to desired outcomes, contrary to the desires of its own staff. Second, the authors use cases from India, a country with low aid dependence, and Zambia, a country with high aid dependence, to explore how institutions on the ground in recipient countries also mediate the effectiveness of aid. Throughout the book, the authors offer suggestions about how to improve aid's effectiveness. These suggestions include how to structure evaluations in order to improve outcomes, how to employ agency staff to gain from their on-the-ground experience, and how to engage stakeholders as "owners" in the design, resource mobilization, learning, and evaluation processes of development assistance programs.}, language = {English}, publisher = {Oxford University Press}, author = {Gibson, Clark C. and Andersson, Krister and Ostrom, Elinor and Shivakumar, Sujai}, month = nov, year = {2005}, } @book{schaffer_rapid_2005, address = {San Francisco, CA}, edition = {1 edition}, title = {Rapid {Results}!: {How} 100-{Day} {Projects} {Build} the {Capacity} for {Large}-{Scale} {Change}}, isbn = {978-0-7879-7734-4}, shorttitle = {Rapid {Results}!}, abstract = {Rapid Results! shows how to make large-scale changes succeed  by using 100-day results-producing projects to develop this vital implementation capability. Written by Robert H. Schaffer, Ronald N. Ashkenas, and their associates—leaders in the field of change management—Rapid Results! describes an approach that has been field-tested by real organizations of every size and description to improve performance and speed the pace of change. Rapid results projects produce results quickly, introduce new work patterns, and enable participants to learn a variety of lessons about managing change. Step by step, the book describes how the use of rapid-cycle, or 100-day, projects   will multiply your organization’s power to succeed at large-scale change. Schaffer and Ashkenas specifically outline the concept behind 100-day projects and show you how to Set up the architecture to implement rapid results projects Improve operational performance and also attain hard results in the soft areas of management Build rapid results into major organizational change such as reorganization, acquisition integration, and international development Use rapid results to drive leadership development and culture change}, language = {English}, publisher = {Jossey-Bass}, author = {Schaffer, Robert H. and Ashkenas, Ron}, month = oct, year = {2005}, } @book{chambers_ideas_2005, address = {London}, title = {Ideas for {Development}}, isbn = {978-1-84407-088-6}, abstract = {Our world seems entangled in systems increasingly dominated by power, greed, ignorance, self-deception and denial, with spiralling inequity and injustice. Against a backdrop of climate change, failing ecosystems, poverty, crushing debt and corporate exploitation, the future of our world looks dire and the solutions almost too monumental to consider. Yet all is not lost. Robert Chambers, one of the ?glass is half full? optimists of international development, suggests that the problems can be solved and everyone has the power at a personal level to take action, develop solutions and remake our world as it can and should be. Chambers peels apart and analyses aspects of development that have been neglected or misunderstood. In each chapter, he presents an earlier writing which he then reviews and reflects upon in a contemporary light before harvesting a wealth of powerful conclusions and practical implications for the future. The book draws on experiences from Africa, Asia and elsewhere, covering topics and concepts as wide and varied as irreversibility, continuity and commitment; administrative capacity as a scarce resource; procedures and principles; participation in the past, present and future; scaling up; behaviour and attitudes; responsible wellbeing; and concepts for development in the 21st century.}, language = {English}, publisher = {Routledge}, author = {Chambers, Robert}, month = may, year = {2005}, } @book{britton_organisational_2005, address = {Oxford}, title = {Organisational {Learning} in {NGOs}: {Creating} the motive, means and opportunity}, isbn = {978-1-897748-92-3}, shorttitle = {Organisational {Learning} in {NGOs}}, url = {https://beamexchange.org/uploads/filer_public/1b/a1/1ba1b4d0-2d63-45d0-afa8-c324f4674f9e/learning_in_ngos.pdf}, language = {English}, publisher = {Intrac}, author = {Britton, Bruce}, year = {2005}, note = {OCLC: 474871294}, } @book{davies_most_2005, title = {The '{Most} {Significant} {Change}' ({MSC}) {Technique}}, url = {http://www.mande.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2005/MSCGuide.pdf}, abstract = {This publication is aimed at organisations, community groups, students and academics who wish to use MSC to help monitor and evaluate their social change programs and projects, or to learn more about how it can be used. The technique is applicable in many different sectors, including agriculture, education and health, and especially in development programs. It is also applicable to many different cultural contexts. MSC has been used in a wide variety of countries by a range of organisations. By 2004, MSC had been used both by NGOs and governments in Africa, Asia, Latin America, Europe and Australasia.}, urldate = {2018-03-09}, publisher = {CARE International}, author = {Davies, Rick and Dart, Jess}, year = {2005}, } @book{jullien_treatise_2004, address = {Honolulu}, title = {A {Treatise} on {Efficacy}: {Between} {Western} and {Chinese} {Thinking}}, isbn = {978-0-8248-2830-1}, shorttitle = {A {Treatise} on {Efficacy}}, url = {https://uberty.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/francois-jullien-treatise-on-efficacy-between-western-and-chinese-thinking.pdf}, abstract = {In this highly insightful analysis of Western and Chinese concepts of efficacy, Francois Jullien subtly delves into the metaphysical preconceptions of the two civilizations to account for diverging patterns of action in warfare, politics, and diplomacy. He shows how Western and Chinese stategies work in several domains (the battle-field, for example) and analyzes two resulting acts of war. The Chinese strategist manipulates his own troops and the enemy to win a battle without waging war and to bring about victory effortlessly. Efficacity in China is thus conceived of in terms of transformation (as opposed to action) and manipulation, making it closer to what is understood as efficacy in the West. Jullien's brilliant interpretations of an array of recondite texts are key to understanding our own conceptions of action, time, and reality in this foray into the world of Chinese thought. In its clear and penetrating characterization of two contrasting views of reality from a heretofore unexplored perspective, Treatise on Efficacy will be of central importance in the intellectual debate between East and West.}, language = {English}, urldate = {2018-01-29}, publisher = {University of Hawaii Press}, author = {Jullien, Francois}, translator = {Lloyd, Janet}, month = jul, year = {2004}, } @book{mcmillan_complexity_2004, title = {Complexity, {Organizations} and {Change}}, abstract = {Complexity science has seriously challenged long-held views in the scientific community about how the world works. These ideas, particularly about the living world, also have radical and profound implications for organizations and society as a whole. Available in paperback for the first time, this insightful book describes and considers ideas from complexity science and examines their use in organizations, especially in bringing about major organizational change. Author McMillan explores how organizations, their design, the way they operate and, importantly, the people who co-create them, are thought of.Explaining the history and development of complexity science in an accessible way for the non-scientific reader, this outstanding book describes key concepts and their use in theory and practice. Illustrated with real-life examples from organizations in the UK, Europe and the USA, the book includes an in-depth case study of an organization which used complexity principles as part of a strategic change intervention. From this, useful models for introducing a complexity-based change process are derived.Complexity, Organizations and Change will appeal to academics, researchers and advanced students who are interested in complexity science and what it means for strategy, organization and management theory and organizational change.}, language = {English}, publisher = {Routledge}, author = {McMillan, Elizabeth}, month = jul, year = {2004}, } @book{lawson_being_2004, edition = {1st edition}, title = {Being {Spherical}: {Reshaping} {Our} {Lives} and {Our} {World} for the 21st {Century}}, isbn = {978-0-9761910-0-1}, shorttitle = {Being {Spherical}}, abstract = {In this concise, illustrated work exploring the dynamics of living in the 21st century, Phil Lawson and Robert L. Lindstrom show us how we individually and collectively shape the future - a future no longer dominated by traditional hierarchies and concentrated power centers. The authors explain why, in this dawning era of interconnection and interdependency, we require a dramatic transformation in the way we see, think and act. Using mythological imagery in the form of The Sphere and an innovative and adaptive vocabulary, they introduce us to concepts and processes for reshaping our lives, our organizations and our world for the better. In addition, they introduce the Spherical Modeling Tool (SMT), a practical hands-on awareness application. BEING SPHERICAL GUIDES US AS WE LEARN TO: * Prepare for a future we cannot even vaguely predict. * Raise our children well in a climate of moral uncertainty. * Create viable organizations in an era of extreme complexity. * Come to the aid of an abused and ailing planet. AS WE LEARN TO SEE THE SPHERE WE: * Understand why we do what we do and what to do differently. * Discover creative solutions to longstanding problems. * Connect and reconnect within ourselves and with others. * Ready ourselves of quantum leaps in inspiration and awareness. THE GREATER OUR SPHERICAL INTEGRITY THE BETTER WE: * Flex with internal and external pressures. * Adapt to disorienting and accelerating change. * Respond to unpredictable and uncontrollable conditions. * Roll through hard times and bounce forward from adversity. Excerpted from Being Spherical: Reshaping Our Lives and Our World for the 21st Century by Phil Lawson, Robert L. Lindstrom. Copyright 2004. Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved.}, language = {English}, publisher = {Sphericity Press}, author = {Lawson, Phil and Lindstrom, Robert L.}, month = apr, year = {2004}, } @book{liker_toyota_2004, address = {New York}, title = {The {Toyota} {Way}: 14 {Management} {Principles} from the {World}'s {Greatest} {Manufacturer}}, isbn = {978-0-07-139231-0}, shorttitle = {The {Toyota} {Way}}, abstract = {How to speed up business processes, improve quality, and cut costs in any industryIn factories around the world, Toyota consistently makes the highest-quality cars with the fewest defects of any competing manufacturer, while using fewer man-hours, less on-hand inventory, and half the floor space of its competitors. The Toyota Way is the first book for a general audience that explains the management principles and business philosophy behind Toyota's worldwide reputation for quality and reliability.Complete with profiles of organizations that have successfully adopted Toyota's principles, this book shows managers in every industry how to improve business processes by:Eliminating wasted time and resources Building quality into workplace systems Finding low-cost but reliable alternatives to expensive new technology Producing in small quantities Turning every employee into a quality control inspector}, language = {English}, publisher = {McGraw-Hill}, author = {Liker, Jeffrey K.}, month = jan, year = {2004}, } @book{chapman_system_2004, address = {London}, title = {System {Failure}: {Why} {Governments} {Must} {Learn} to {Think} {Differently}}, isbn = {978-1-84180-123-0}, shorttitle = {System {Failure}}, abstract = {The current model of public policy-making is no longer right for a government that has set itself the challenge of delivery. Improvements are driven by central policy initiatives which assume a direct relationship between action and outcome - but this is a false assumption. Public services are complex adaptive systems which are subject to the law of unintended consequences, so intervention can make problems worse. That is why the carrot-and-stick approach to reform which links increased funding to tougher performance targets will not succeed in the long run. Renowned systems thinker Jake Chapman describes how government's energetic attempts to force change from the centre are becoming counter-productive. The alternative is government based on continuous learning. This is increasingly important as the impact of communication technology and other accelerating social trends offers a moving target for public service reformers. Systems thinking offers a better model for change in complex organisations such as the health service or the railway network. Case studies provided by the NHS confederation show the unintended and often bizarre consequences of introducing new policies without considering their impact on the whole system. Since the original publication of Systems Failure in 2002, many of its core ideas have been taken on by government. In this second edition, Chapman reflects on the experience of putting systems thinking into practice in public services, and explains why the changes he suggests are more difficult - and more urgent - than expected.}, language = {English}, publisher = {Demos}, author = {Chapman, Jake}, year = {2004}, } @book{martuzzi_precautionary_2004, address = {Copenhagen}, title = {The precautionary principle: protecting public health, the environment and the future of our children}, isbn = {978-92-890-1098-6}, shorttitle = {The precautionary principle}, language = {English}, publisher = {World Health Organization, Regional Office for Europe}, author = {{World Health Organization}}, editor = {Martuzzi, Marco and Tickner, Joel A}, year = {2004}, note = {OCLC: 551147957}, } @book{rogers_diffusion_2003, address = {New York}, edition = {5th edition}, title = {Diffusion of {Innovations}, 5th {Edition}}, isbn = {978-0-7432-2209-9}, abstract = {Now in its fifth edition, Diffusion of Innovations is a classic work on the spread of new ideas.In this renowned book, Everett M. Rogers, professor and chair of the Department of Communication \& Journalism at the University of New Mexico, explains how new ideas spread via communication channels over time. Such innovations are initially perceived as uncertain and even risky. To overcome this uncertainty, most people seek out others like themselves who have already adopted the new idea. Thus the diffusion process consists of a few individuals who first adopt an innovation, then spread the word among their circle of acquaintances—a process which typically takes months or years. But there are exceptions: use of the Internet in the 1990s, for example, may have spread more rapidly than any other innovation in the history of humankind. Furthermore, the Internet is changing the very nature of diffusion by decreasing the importance of physical distance between people. The fifth edition addresses the spread of the Internet, and how it has transformed the way human beings communicate and adopt new ideas.}, language = {English}, publisher = {Free Press}, author = {Rogers, Everett M.}, month = aug, year = {2003}, } @book{hildreth_knowledge_2003, address = {Hershey}, title = {Knowledge {Networks}: {Innovation} {Through} {Communities} of {Practice}}, isbn = {978-1-59140-200-8}, shorttitle = {Knowledge {Networks}}, abstract = {Knowledge Networks: Innovations Through Communities of Practice draws on the experience of people who have worked with CoPs in the real world and to present their combined wisdom in a form that is accessible to a wide audience. CoPs are examined from a practical, rather than a purely academic point of view. The book also examines the benefits that CoPs can bring to an organization, provides a number of case studies, lessons learned and sets of guidelines. It also looks at virtual CoPs and to the future by asking 'what next?' This book is a resource for all people who work with CoPs - both in academia and in the real world.}, language = {English}, publisher = {IGI Global}, editor = {Hildreth, Paul and Kimble, Chris}, month = jul, year = {2003}, } @book{fung_deepening_2003, address = {London}, title = {Deepening {Democracy}: {Institutional} {Innovations} in {Empowered} {Participatory} {Governance}}, url = {file://D:\pedro\Mis Documentos\Dropbox\Dropy-Documentos\EndNote\bibliografia-ePart.EndNoteX.Data\PDF\DD-TOC-1554637840/DD-TOC.pdf}, abstract = {ENTRADA CREADA PARA PODER CITAR EL CAPÍTULO}, publisher = {Verso}, author = {Fung, Archon and Wright, Erik Olin}, year = {2003}, } @book{roper_development_2003, address = {Oxford}, title = {Development and the {Learning} {Organization}}, shorttitle = {Development and the {Learning} {Organization} by {Roper}, {Laura} et al, ({Eds}.)}, url = {https://www.abebooks.co.uk/Development-Learning-Organization-Roper-Laura-Eds/4210045944/bd}, publisher = {Oxfam Publications}, author = {Roper, Laura and Pettit, Jethro and Eade, Deborah}, year = {2003}, } @book{douthwaite_enabling_2002, title = {Enabling {Innovation}: {A} {Practical} {Guide} to {Understanding} and {Fostering} {Technological} {Change}}, isbn = {978-1-85649-972-9}, shorttitle = {Enabling {Innovation}}, abstract = {Enabling Innovation is an engrossing look at some of the disaster—and success—stories surrounding technological development and diffusion in industrialized and developing countries. The book tells the story of widely divergent technologies—agricultural appliances, wind turbines, Green Revolution high yielding seeds, the Linux computer operating system, and Local Economic Trading Systems. Boru Douthwaite has constructed a "how to do it" guide to innovation management that runs counter to so many current "top-down", "big is good", and "private sector is best" assumptions.}, language = {en}, publisher = {Zed Books}, author = {Douthwaite, M. B.}, year = {2002}, note = {Google-Books-ID: QRwvkEwrWwAC}, keywords = {Political science}, } @book{pretty_trainers_2002, address = {London}, edition = {Reprint}, series = {{IIED} {Participatory} methodology series}, title = {A trainer's guide for participatory learning and action}, isbn = {978-1-899825-00-4}, language = {eng}, editor = {Pretty, Jules and Guijt, Irene}, year = {2002}, } @book{wenger_cultivating_2002, title = {Cultivating {Communities} of {Practice}: {A} {Guide} to {Managing} {Knowledge}}, isbn = {978-1-57851-330-7}, shorttitle = {Cultivating {Communities} of {Practice}}, abstract = {Today's marketplace is fueled by knowledge. Yet organizing systematically to leverage knowledge remains a challenge. Leading companies have discovered that technology is not enough, and that cultivating communities of practice is the keystone of an effective knowledge strategy.Communities of practice come together around common interests and expertise- whether they consist of first-line managers or customer service representatives, neurosurgeons or software programmers, city managers or home-improvement amateurs. They create, share, and apply knowledge within and across the boundaries of teams, business units, and even entire companies-providing a concrete path toward creating a true knowledge organization.In Cultivating Communities of Practice, Etienne Wenger, Richard McDermott, and William M. Snyder argue that while communities form naturally, organizations need to become more proactive and systematic about developing and integrating them into their strategy. This book provides practical models and methods for stewarding these communities to reach their full potential-without squelching the inner drive that makes them so valuable.Through in-depth cases from firms such as DaimlerChrysler, McKinsey \& Company, Shell, and the World Bank, the authors demonstrate how communities of practice can be leveraged to drive overall company strategy, generate new business opportunities, tie personal development to corporate goals, transfer best practices, and recruit and retain top talent. They define the unique features of these communities and outline principles for nurturing their essential elements. They provide guidelines to support communities of practice through their major stages of development, address the potential downsides of communities, and discuss the specific challenges of distributed communities. And they show how to recognize the value created by communities of practice and how to build a corporate knowledge strategy around them.Essential reading for any leader in today's knowledge economy, this is the definitive guide to developing communities of practice for the benefit-and long-term success-of organizations and the individuals who work in them.Etienne Wenger is a renowned expert and consultant on knowledge management and communities of practice in San Juan, California. Richard McDermott is a leading expert of organization and community development in Boulder, Colorado. William M. Snyder is a founding partner of Social Capital Group, in Cambridge, Massachusetts.}, language = {en}, publisher = {Harvard Business Press}, author = {Wenger, Etienne and McDermott, Richard Arnold and Snyder, William}, year = {2002}, note = {Google-Books-ID: m1xZuNq9RygC}, } @book{oecd_evaluation_2001, address = {Paris}, series = {Evaluation and {Aid} {Effectiveness}}, title = {Evaluation {Feedback} for {Effective} {Learning} and {Accountability}}, isbn = {978-92-64-03493-8}, abstract = {Evaluation is a key tool in improving the quality and effectiveness of development co-operation. The Development Assistance Committee (DAC) Working Party in Aid Evaluation is the only international forum where bilateral and multilateral evaluation experts meet regularly. Its Members meet to improve evaluation practice and to learn lessons from development co-operation activities and experiences. A series "Evaluation and Aid Effectiveness" was launched to share selected pieces of work with a broader public. This publication is composed of two parts: The Workshop Report, based on the fore-mentioned meeting, highlights the various issues raised, topics of discussion and different feedback systems, and outlines the areas identified by participants as most relevant for improving evaluation feedback. The Background Synthesis Report, intended as a starting point for discussion at the workshop, outlines the main concerns and challenges facing evaluation feedback and the means to address these. The report is based on an analysis of questionnaire results, and a review of previous initiatives in this area. The print version of the above report is available free of charge from the Development Co-operation Directorate; please send an email to dac.contact@oecd.org to get a copy.}, language = {en}, number = {5}, publisher = {OECD}, author = {OECD}, month = dec, year = {2001}, note = {Google-Books-ID: kA39FghYYUgC}, } @book{waugh_soul_2001, address = {Makawao}, title = {The {Soul} in the {Computer}: {The} {Story} of a {Corporate} {Revolutionary}}, isbn = {978-1-930722-03-3}, shorttitle = {The {Soul} in the {Computer}}, abstract = {When Barbara Waugh joined the Hewlett-Packard Corporation in the mid-80's, this 60's radical encountered a company with a benign but topdown leadership. As she progressed from recruiting manager to world change manager, she used a set of radical tools to transform its corporate culture and to help realize the true potential of The HP Way.}, language = {English}, publisher = {Inner Ocean Publishing}, author = {Waugh, Barbara}, month = oct, year = {2001}, } @book{earl_outcome_2001, address = {Ottawa}, title = {Outcome {Mapping}: {Building} {Learning} and {Reflection} into {Development} {Programs}}, isbn = {978-0-88936-959-7}, shorttitle = {Outcome {Mapping}}, abstract = {"Outcome Mapping provides not only a guide to essential evaluation map-making, but also a guide to learning and increased effectiveness, and affirmation that being attentive along the journey is as important as, and critical to, arriving at a destination." - Michael Quinn PattonMore and more, development organizations are under pressure to demonstrate that their programs result in significant and lasting changes in the well-being of their intended beneficiaries. However, such "impacts" are often the product of a confluence of events for which no single agency or group of agencies can realistically claim full credit. As a result, assessing development impacts is problematic, yet many organizations continue to struggle to measure results far beyond the reach of their programs. "Outcome Mapping" recognizes that development is essentially about people relating to each other and their environment. The originality of this approach lies in its shift away from assessing the products of a program to focus on changes in behaviour, relationships, actions, and activities in the people, groups, and organizations it works with directly. In doing so, "Outcome Mapping" debunks many of the myths about measuring impact. It will help a program be specific about the actors it targets, the changes it expects to see, and the strategies it employs and, as a result, be more effective in terms of the results it achieves. This publication explains the various steps in the outcome mapping approach and provides detailed information on workshop design and facilitation. It includes numerous worksheets and examples.}, language = {English}, publisher = {IDRC Books}, author = {Earl, Sarah and Carden, Fred and Smutylo, Terry and Patten, Michael Quinn}, year = {2001}, } @book{highsmith_adaptive_2000, address = {New York}, title = {Adaptive {Software} {Development}: {A} {Collaborative} {Approach} to {Managing} {Complex} {Systems}}, isbn = {978-0-932633-40-8}, shorttitle = {Adaptive {Software} {Development}}, url = {https://www.amazon.com/Adaptive-Software-Development-Collaborative-Approach/dp/0932633404}, abstract = {In today's turbulent e-business world, software project teams that survive and thrive won't be those that continue their traditions of optimization, efficiency, and control, but those that exhibit adaptability, speed, and collaboration. Adaptive Software Development is targeted at software teams where competition creates extreme pressure on the delivery process. Four goals of the book are * to support an adaptive culture in which change and uncertainty are assumed to be the natural state * to introduce frameworks to guide the iterative process of managing change * to institute collaboration, the interaction of people on interpersonal, cultural, and structural levels * to add rigor and discipline to the RAD approach, making it scalable to the uncertainty and complexity of real-world undertakings. This innovative text, grounded in the science of complex adaptive systems theory, offers a practical, realistic approach to managing the high-speed, high-change projects characteristic of our highly uncertain economy.}, language = {English}, publisher = {Dorset House Publishing}, author = {Highsmith, Jim}, month = jan, year = {2000}, } @book{carlsson_learning_2000, title = {Learning in {Development} {Co}-operation}, isbn = {978-91-22-01896-4}, language = {en}, publisher = {Almqvist \& Wiksell International}, author = {Carlsson, Jerker and Wohlgemuth, Lennart}, year = {2000}, note = {Google-Books-ID: guMkAQAAIAAJ}, } @book{stacey_strategic_2000, address = {London}, title = {Strategic {Management} and {Organisational} {Dynamics}: {The} {Challenge} of {Complexity}}, shorttitle = {Strategic {Management} and {Organisational} {Dynamics}}, abstract = {In the third edition of this successful text, Ralph Stacey continues to question the view that organisations operate and succeed in relatively stable environments. He argues that in order to succeed in uncertainty and continual change, organisations need to create new perspectives and learn from the chaos within which they operate. This edition continues to focus on this radically different approach to strategic management. The central tenets of this approach have to do with unpredictability and the limitations of control, and therefore it argues against the rational models of planning and control covered in other strategy textbooks. This is done by emphasising the importance of narrative, conversation and learning from one's own experience as the central means by which we can gain understanding and knowledge of strategy in organisations. - Sharper distinction between systemic and process thinking with new chapters on the philosophical origins of systems and process thinking, second order and critical system thinking. - new material on theory of complex responsive processes, particularly to do with control, leadership and ethics. - Includes 7 management narratives, ie, personal ac}, publisher = {Pitman}, author = {Stacey, Ralph D.}, year = {2000}, note = {Google-Books-ID: z7haAAAAYAAJ}, keywords = {Organizational Behavior, Strategic Planning}, } @book{goldratt_theory_1999, address = {Croton-on-Hudson, N.Y.}, title = {Theory of {Constraints}}, isbn = {978-0-88427-166-6}, abstract = {Theory of Constraints walks you through the crucial stages of a continuous program: the five steps of focusing; the process of change; how to prove effect-cause-effect; and how to invent simple solutions to complex problems. Equally important, the author reveals the devastating impact that an organization's psychology can have on the process of improvements. Theory of Constraints is a crucial document for understanding what it takes to achieve manufacturing breakthroughs.}, language = {English}, publisher = {North River Pr}, author = {Goldratt, Eliyahu M.}, month = dec, year = {1999}, } @book{edwards_future_1999, address = {London}, edition = {First Edition edition}, title = {Future {Positive}: {International} {Co}-operation in the 21st {Century}}, isbn = {978-1-85383-631-2}, shorttitle = {Future {Positive}}, abstract = {An optimistic assessment of the prospects for a new international order - acting as a counter-blast to global pessimism. The text explains how the international system operates, the pressures it faces and the changes it must undergo, and offers concrete ideas to re-frame international relations, foreign aid and humanitarian intervention, without using jargon or simplistic judgements.}, language = {English}, publisher = {Routledge}, editor = {Edwards, Michael}, month = may, year = {1999}, } @book{axelrod_harnessing_1999, title = {Harnessing {Complexity}: {Organizational} {Implications} of a {Scientific} {Frontier}}, isbn = {978-0-684-86717-5}, shorttitle = {Harnessing {Complexity}}, abstract = {Recent advances in the study of complexity have given scientists profound new insights into how natural innovation occurs and how its power can be exploited. Now two pioneers in the field, Robert Axelrod and Michael D. Cohen, provide leaders in business and government with a guide to complexity that will help them make effective decisions in a world of rapid change. Building on evolutionary biology, computer science, and social design, Axelrod and Cohen have constructed a unique framework for improving the way people work together. Their approach to management is based on the concept of the Complex Adaptive System, which can describe everything from rain forests to the human gene pool, and from automated software agents to multinational companies. The authors' framework reveals three qualities that all kinds of managers must cultivate in their organization: "Variation" What is the best way to manage the development of software? Should the problem be broken up into small pieces for programmers working independently, thus enhancing variation, or should there be a centralized hierarchy of programmers ruled by a chain of command? The authors show how the decentralized creation of variation combined with the centralized maintenance of standards was the key to the success of the Linux "open source software" project, which brought together thousands of volunteers in cyberspace to produce an operating system that can outperform Microsoft's. "Interaction" Why did northern Italy prosper while southern Italy remained poor? Recognizing the internal interactions of a Complex Adaptive System -- be it a national region, a company, or a nonprofit group -- reveals vitalnetworks of trust. Axelrod and Cohen explain that in successful adaptive systems, rich networks of horizontal linkages foster cooperation and provide an advantage over other less cooperatively networked groups. In the case of Italy, voluntary associations created networks of trust in the Middle Ages that became northern Italy's critical advantage over the south. "Selection" Is a Pulitzer Prize better than a National Book Award? How can foundations and corporations design competitions that have a positive effect on the evolution of excellence? The authors' framework makes clear that the worst selection processes are mired in orthodox standards that have not adapted to a new environment. The best selection processes, on the other hand, are created and run by leaders who understand how the standards they use can transform their organization and its environment. This simple, paradigm-shifting analysis of how people work together will transform the way we think about getting things done in a group. "Harnessing Complexity" is the essential guide to creating wealth, power, and knowledge in the 21st century.}, language = {en}, publisher = {Free Press}, author = {Axelrod, Robert M. and Cohen, Michael D.}, year = {1999}, note = {Google-Books-ID: zR8HRAAACAAJ}, keywords = {Organizational Behavior}, } @book{elliott_locating_1999, address = {Winnipeg}, title = {Locating the energy for change: an introduction to appreciative inquiry}, isbn = {978-1-895536-15-7}, shorttitle = {Locating the energy for change}, publisher = {International Institute for Sustainable Development}, author = {Elliott, Charles}, collaborator = {International Institute for Sustainable Development}, year = {1999}, note = {OCLC: ocm41119278}, keywords = {Appreciative inquiry, Organizational change}, } @book{mosse_development_1998, title = {Development as {Process}: {Concepts} and {Methods} for {Working} with {Complexity}}, isbn = {978-0-415-18605-6}, shorttitle = {Development as {Process}}, abstract = {Process" approaches to economic and social development appear to be more flexible and offer greater prospects of success than traditional "project" methods. Development as Process addresses the questions raised by the different natures of the two approaches. The authors examine development projects through experience in water resources development in India and in organizational learning by a Bangladeshi NGO. Inter-agency contexts are examined in the setting of an aquaculture project in Bangladesh and in the setting of agriculture and natural resources development in Rajisthan, India. Finally, the role of process monitoring is explained in the context of policy reform, with illustrations from forestry in India and land reform in Russia.}, language = {en}, publisher = {Routledge}, editor = {Mosse, David and Farrington, John and Rew, Alan}, year = {1998}, note = {Google-Books-ID: baVE8SzJkNMC}, keywords = {Demography, Economic Development, Sociology}, } @book{thomas_finding_1998, address = {London}, title = {Finding out fast: investigative skills for policy and development}, isbn = {0-7619-5837-1}, publisher = {Sage}, author = {Thomas, Alan and Chataway, Joanna and Wuyts, Marc}, year = {1998}, } @book{chambers_whose_1997, address = {London}, edition = {2 edition}, title = {Whose {Reality} {Counts}? {Putting} the {First} {Last}}, isbn = {978-1-85339-386-0}, shorttitle = {Whose {Reality} {Counts}?}, abstract = {In this sequel to "Rural Development: Putting the last first" Robert Chambers argues that central issues in development have been overlooked, and that many past errors have flowed from domination by those with power.Development professionals now need new approaches and methods forinteracting, learning and knowing. Through analyzing experience - of past mistakes and myths, and of the continuing methodological revolution of PRA (participatory rural appraisal) - the author points towards solutions.In many countries, urban and rural people alike have shown an astonishing ability to express and analyze their local, complex and diverse realities which are often at odds with the top-down realities imposed by professionals. The author argues that personal, professional and institutional change is essential if the realities of the poor are to receive greater recognition. Self-critical awareness and changes in concepts, values, methods and behaviour must be developed to explore the new high ground of participation and empowerment."Whose Reality Counts?" presents a radical challenge to all concernedwith development, whether practitioners, researchers or policy-makers, in all organizations and disciplines, and at all levels from fieldworkers to the heads of agencies. With its thrust of putting the first last it presents a new, exciting and above all practical agenda for future development which cannot be ignored.}, language = {English}, publisher = {ITDG Publishing}, author = {Chambers, Robert}, month = jan, year = {1997}, } @book{michael_learning_1997, title = {Learning to {Plan}--and {Planning} to {Learn}}, isbn = {978-0-917917-08-0}, abstract = {Don Michael says that, yes, the world can meet future social and organizational challenges - but only if we learn to plan in order-- to live uncertainty-- to learn from mistakes, actually embrace error-- to do goal setting that is future-responsive-- to lower barriers by spanning boundaries-- to improve personal interaction-- to overcome resistance to learning and change.This book treats planning as the way for persons, organizations, and societies to learn their way into the future. It reveals the complex and unavoidable social psychological resistances to learning that must be overcome by competent citizenry in order to plan for the future. A viable ecology, Third World development, new-city building, democratic government in a turbulent society -- all depend on the anticipation of future conditions and on planning to meet these conditions.}, language = {en}, publisher = {Miles River Press}, author = {Michael, Donald N.}, year = {1997}, note = {Google-Books-ID: nJ2ePwAACAAJ}, keywords = {Social science}, } @book{nonaka_knowledge-creating_1995, title = {The {Knowledge}-creating {Company}: {How} {Japanese} {Companies} {Create} the {Dynamics} of {Innovation}}, isbn = {978-0-19-509269-1}, shorttitle = {The {Knowledge}-creating {Company}}, abstract = {How have Japanese companies become world leaders in the automotive and electronics industries, among others? What is the secret of their success? Two leading Japanese business experts, Ikujiro Nonaka and Hirotaka Takeuchi, are the first to tie the success of Japanese companies to their ability to create new knowledge and use it to produce successful products and technologies. In The Knowledge-Creating Company, Nonaka and Takeuchi provide an inside look at how Japanese companies go about creating this new knowledge organizationally.The authors point out that there are two types of knowledge: explicit knowledge, contained in manuals and procedures, and tacit knowledge, learned only by experience, and communicated only indirectly, through metaphor and analogy. U.S. managers focus on explicit knowledge. The Japanese, on the other hand, focus on tacit knowledge. And this, the authors argue, is the key to their success--the Japanese have learned how to transform tacit into explicit knowledge. To explain how this is done--and illuminate Japanese business practices as they do so--the authors range from Greek philosophy to Zen Buddhism, from classical economists to modern management gurus, illustrating the theory of organizational knowledge creation with case studies drawn from such firms as Honda, Canon, Matsushita, NEC, Nissan, 3M, GE, and even the U.S. Marines. For instance, using Matsushita's development of the Home Bakery (the world's first fully automated bread-baking machine for home use), they show how tacit knowledge can be converted to explicit knowledge: when the designers couldn't perfect the dough kneading mechanism, a software programmer apprenticed herself with the master baker at Osaka International Hotel, gained a tacit understanding of kneading, and then conveyed this information to the engineers. In addition, the authors show that, to create knowledge, the best management style is neither top-down nor bottom-up, but rather what they call "middle-up-down," in which the middle managers form a bridge between the ideals of top management and the chaotic realities of the frontline.As we make the turn into the 21st century, a new society is emerging. Peter Drucker calls it the "knowledge society," one that is drastically different from the "industrial society," and one in which acquiring and applying knowledge will become key competitive factors. Nonaka and Takeuchi go a step further, arguing that creating knowledge will become the key to sustaining a competitive advantage in the future. Because the competitive environment and customer preferences changes constantly, knowledge perishes quickly. With The Knowledge-Creating Company, managers have at their fingertips years of insight from Japanese firms that reveal how to create knowledge continuously, and how to exploit it to make successful new products, services, and systems.}, language = {en}, publisher = {Oxford University Press}, author = {Nonaka, Ikujirō and Nonaka, Ikujir o and Ikujiro, Nonaka and Nonaka, Professor of Knowledge Ikujiro and Takeuchi, Hirotaka and Takeuchi, Both Professors of Management at the Institute of Business Research Hirotaka}, year = {1995}, keywords = {Entrepreneurship, Knowledge Capital, Leadership}, } @book{ferguson_anti-politics_1994, address = {Minneapolis}, edition = {First edition}, title = {Anti-{Politics} {Machine}: {Development}, {Depoliticization}, and {Bureaucratic} {Power} in {Lesotho}}, isbn = {978-0-8166-2437-9}, shorttitle = {Anti-{Politics} {Machine}}, url = {https://www.cambridge.org/gb/academic/subjects/anthropology/social-and-cultural-anthropology/anti-politics-machine-development-depoliticization-and-bureaucratic-power-lesotho?format=HB&isbn=9780521373821}, abstract = {Development, it is generally assumed, is good and necessary, and in its name the West has intervened, implementing all manner of projects in the impoverished regions of the world. When these projects fail, as they do with astonishing regularity, they nonetheless produce a host of regular and unacknowledged effects, including the expansion of bureaucratic state power and the translation of the political realities of poverty and powerlessness into "technical" problems awaiting solution by "development" agencies and experts. It is the political intelligibility of these effects, along with the process that produces them, that this book seeks to illuminate through a detailed case study of the workings of the "development" industry in one country, Lesotho, and in one "development" project.Using an anthropological approach grounded in the work of Foucault, James Ferguson analyzes the institutional framework within which such projects are crafted and the nature of "development discourse," revealing how it is that, despite all the "expertise" that goes into formulating development projects, they nonetheless often demonstrate a startling ignorance of the historical and political realities of the locale they are intended to help. In a close examination of the attempted implementation of the Thaba-Tseka project in Lesotho, Ferguson shows how such a misguided approach plays out, how, in fact, the "development" apparatus in Lesotho acts as an "anti-politics machine," everywhere whisking political realities out of sight and all the while performing, almost unnoticed, its own pre-eminently political operation of strengthening the state presence in the local region.James Ferguson is an associate professor of anthropology at the University of California at Irvine.}, language = {English}, publisher = {University Of Minnesota Press}, author = {Ferguson, James}, month = feb, year = {1994}, } @book{lewin_complexity:_1994, address = {Chicago}, title = {Complexity: {Life} at the {Edge} of {Chaos}}, isbn = {978-0-226-47655-1}, shorttitle = {Complexity}, abstract = {"Put together one of the world's best science writers with one of the universe's most fascinating subjects and you are bound to produce a wonderful book. . . . The subject of complexity is vital and controversial. This book is important and beautifully done."—Stephen Jay Gould"[Complexity] is that curious mix of complication and organization that we find throughout the natural and human worlds: the workings of a cell, the structure of the brain, the behavior of the stock market, the shifts of political power. . . . It is time science . . . thinks about meaning as well as counting information. . . . This is the core of the complexity manifesto. Read it, think about it . . . but don't ignore it."—Ian Stewart, NatureThis second edition has been brought up to date with an essay entitled "On the Edge in the Business World" and an interview with John Holland, author of Emergence: From Chaos to Order.}, language = {English}, publisher = {University of Chicago Press}, author = {Lewin, Roger}, year = {1994}, } @book{waldrop_complexity:_1993, address = {New York}, title = {Complexity: {The} {Emerging} {Science} at the {Edge} of {Order} and {Chaos}}, isbn = {978-0-671-87234-2}, shorttitle = {Complexity}, abstract = {In a rented convent in Santa Fe, a revolution has been brewing. The activists are not anarchists, but rather Nobel Laureates in physics and economics such as Murray Gell-Mann and Kenneth Arrow, and pony-tailed graduate students, mathematicians, and computer scientists down from Los Alamos. They've formed an iconoclastic think tank called the Santa Fe Institute, and their radical idea is to create a new science called complexity. These mavericks from academe share a deep impatience with the kind of linear, reductionist thinking that has dominated science since the time of Newton. Instead, they are gathering novel ideas about interconnectedness, coevolution, chaos, structure, and order - and they're forging them into an entirely new, unified way of thinking about nature, human social behavior, life, and the universe itself. They want to know how a primordial soup of simple molecules managed to turn itself into the first living cell - and what the origin of life some four billion years ago can tell us about the process of technological innovation today. They want to know why ancient ecosystems often remained stable for millions of years, only to vanish in a geological instant - and what such events have to do with the sudden collapse of Soviet communism in the late 1980s. They want to know why the economy can behave in unpredictable ways that economists can't explain - and how the random process of Darwinian natural selection managed to produce such wonderfully intricate structures as the eye and the kidney. Above all, they want to know how the universe manages to bring forth complex structures such as galaxies, stars, planets, bacteria, plants, animals, and brains. There are commonthreads in all of these queries, and these Santa Fe scientists seek to understand them. Complexity is their story: the messy, funny, human story of how science really happens. Here is the tale of Brian Arthur, the Belfast-born economist who stubbornly pushed his theories of economic ch}, language = {Inglés}, publisher = {Touchstone Press}, author = {Waldrop, Mitchell M.}, month = sep, year = {1993}, } @book{lee_compass_1993, address = {Washington, DC}, title = {Compass and {Gyroscope}: {Integrating} {Science} and {Politics} in the {Environment}}, isbn = {978-1-55963-197-6}, shorttitle = {Compass and {Gyroscope}}, abstract = {In this original and far-reaching synthesis, Kai N. Lee explains that together science and politics can lead the waytoward the sustainable management of the world’s resources. Rigorous science can act as our compass, pointingus toward greater and more useful knowledge (adaptive management), and practical politics can serve as our gyroscope, keeping usbalanced between competing interest groups. Unlike some approaches to sustainable development, Compass and Gyroscope is refreshingly grounded in the realworld. Lee explains that sustainability cannot occur overnight, we have neither an adequate base of knowledgenor a reliable means of properly implementing and executing management plans. "Sustainable development is not a goal, not a condition likely to be attained on earth as we know it. Rather it is more like freedom or justice,a direction in which we strive..." Using the Columbia River Basin in the Pacific Northwest as a case study, Lee examines the successes andfailures of past and present management. He describes what has been learned, and explains how that experiencecan be applied to environmental management generally. Throughout, the author delves deeply into the theoretical framework behind the real-world experience, exploring how theories of science, politics, and cognitive psychology can be integrated into environmental management.}, language = {English}, publisher = {Island Press}, author = {Lee, Kai N.}, month = jun, year = {1993}, } @book{goldratt_goal:_1992, address = {Great Barrington, MA}, title = {The {Goal}: {A} {Process} of {Ongoing} {Improvement}}, isbn = {978-0-88427-061-4}, shorttitle = {The {Goal}}, abstract = {Over 2 million copies sold! Used by thousands of companies and hundreds of business schools! Required reading for anyone interested in the Theory of Constraints. This book, which introduces the Theory of Constraints, is changing how America does business. The Goal is a gripping, fast-paced business novel about overcoming the barriers to making money. You will learn the fundamentals of identifying and solving the problems created by constraints. From the moment you finish the book you will be able to start successfully addressing chronic productivity and quality problems.}, language = {English}, publisher = {North River Press}, author = {Goldratt, Eliyahu M. and Cox, Jeff}, month = jan, year = {1992}, } @book{blankenbey_approprite_1991, address = {New Delhi}, title = {Approprite {Technologies} for {Rural} {Development} in {India}}, isbn = {978-81-7022-371-9}, language = {English}, publisher = {Concept Publishing Co}, author = {Blankenbey, Floris P.}, month = may, year = {1991}, } @book{haas_when_1991, address = {Berkeley, Calif.}, title = {When {Knowledge} is {Power}: {Three} {Models} of {Change} in {International} {Organizations}}, isbn = {978-0-520-07402-6}, shorttitle = {When {Knowledge} is {Power}}, abstract = {Do governments seeking to collaborate in such international organizations as the United Nations and the World Bank ever learn to improve the performance of those organizations? Can international organizations be improved by a deliberate institutional design that reflects lessons learned in peacekeeping, the protection of human rights, and environmentally sound economic development? In this incisive work, Ernst Haas examines these and other issues to delineate the conditions under which organizations change their methods for defining problems. Haas contends that international organizations change most effectively when they are able to redefine the causes underlying the problems to be addressed. He shows that such self-reflection is possible when the expert-generated knowledge about the problems can be made to mesh with the interests of hegemonic coalitions of member governments. But usually efforts to change organizations begin as adaptive practices that owe little to a systematic questioning of past behavior. Often organizations adapt and survive without fully satisfying most of their members, as has been the case with the United Nations since 1970. When Knowledge Is Power is a wide-ranging work that will elicit interest from political scientists, organization theorists, bureaucrats, and students of management and international administration.}, language = {English}, publisher = {University of California Press}, author = {Haas, Ernst B.}, month = apr, year = {1991}, } @book{womack_machine_1990, address = {New York}, title = {The machine that changed the {World}: the story of {Lean} {Production}}, publisher = {Simon \& Schuster}, author = {Womack, James P. and Jones, Daniel T. and Roos, Daniel}, year = {1990}, } @book{ono_toyota_1988, address = {Cambridge, MA}, title = {Toyota production system: beyond large-scale production}, isbn = {978-0-915299-14-0}, shorttitle = {Toyota production system}, language = {eng}, publisher = {Productivity Press}, author = {Ōno, Taiichi and Bodek, Norman}, month = jun, year = {1988}, note = {OCLC: 255047797}, keywords = {Lean Production, Production management, Toyota-Jidōsha-Kōgyō-KK}, } @book{rowe_design_1987, address = {Cambridge}, title = {Design thinking}, isbn = {978-0-262-68067-7}, publisher = {The MIT Press}, author = {Rowe, Peter G.}, year = {1987}, } @book{darrow_appropriate_1986, address = {Fort Collins}, title = {Appropriate {Technology} {Sourcebook}}, shorttitle = {Appropriate {Technology} {Sourcebook}}, url = {http://www.villageearth.org/appropriate-technology/appropriate-technology-sourcebook}, urldate = {2017-02-22}, publisher = {Village Earth}, author = {Darrow, Ken and Saxenian, Mike}, year = {1986}, keywords = {IMPORTANT}, } @book{walters_adaptive_1986, address = {Basingstoke}, title = {Adaptive {Management} of {Renewable} {Resources}}, isbn = {978-0-02-947970-4}, url = {https://iiasa.dev.local/}, abstract = {The author challenges the traditional approach to dealing with uncertainty in the management of such renewable resources as fish and wildlife. He argues that scientific understanding will come from the experience of management as an ongoing, adaptive, and experimental process, rather than through basic research or the development of ecological theory. The opening chapters review approaches to formulating management objectives as well as models for understanding how policy choices affect the attainment of these objectives. Subsequent chapters present various statistical methods for understanding the dynamics of uncertainty in managed fish and wildlife populations and for seeking optimum harvest policies in the face of uncertainty. The book concludes with a look at prospects for adaptive management of complex systems, emphasizing such human factors involved in decision making as risk aversion and conflicting objectives as well as biophysical factors. Throughout the text dynamic models and Bayesian statistical theory are used as tools for understanding the behavior of managed systems. These tools are illustrated with simple graphs and plots of data from representative cases. This text/reference will serve researchers, graduate students, and resource managers who formulate harvest policies and study the dynamics of harvest populations, as well as analysts (modelers, statisticians, and stock assessment experts) who are concerned with the practice of policy design.}, language = {en}, urldate = {2023-11-07}, publisher = {Macmillan Publishers Ltd}, author = {Walters, C. J.}, year = {1986}, } @book{kolb_experiential_1983, title = {Experiential {Learning}: {Experience} as the {Source} of {Learning} and {Development}}, abstract = {Drawing from the intellectual origins of experiential learning in the works of John Dewey, Kurt Lewin, and Jean Piaget, this comprehensive and systematic book describes the process of experiential learning. The author proposes a model of the underlying structures of the learning process based on research in psychology, philosophy, and physiology, and bases its typology of individual learning styles and corresponding structures of knowledge in different academic disciplines and careers on this structural model. He also applies experiential learning to higher education and lifelong learning, particularly with regard to adult education.}, publisher = {Prentice Hall}, author = {Kolb, David A.}, month = oct, year = {1983}, } @book{chambers_rural_1983, title = {Rural development: putting the last first}, copyright = {http://opendocs.ids.ac.uk/opendocs/handle/123456789/80}, shorttitle = {Rural development}, url = {https://opendocs.ids.ac.uk/opendocs/handle/123456789/178}, language = {en}, urldate = {2017-04-07}, publisher = {Prentice Hall}, author = {Chambers, Robert}, year = {1983}, } @book{rondinelli_development_1983, address = {London}, title = {Development {Projects} as {Policy} {Experiments}: {An} {Adaptive} {Approach} to {Development} {Administration}}, shorttitle = {Development {Projects} as {Policy} {Experiments}}, abstract = {International assistance programmes for developing countries are in urgent need of revision. Continuous testing and verification is required if development activity is to cope effectively with the uncertainty and complexity of the development process. This examines the alternatives and offers an approach which focuses on strategic planning, administrative procedures that facilitate innovation, responsiveness and experimentation, and on decision-making processes that join learning with action. A useful text for academics and practitioners in development studies, geography and sociology.}, publisher = {Methuen}, author = {Rondinelli, Dennis A.}, year = {1983}, } @book{argyris_organizational_1978, address = {Reading}, title = {Organizational {Learning}: {A} {Theory} of {Action} {Perspective}}, isbn = {978-0-201-00174-7}, shorttitle = {Organizational {Learning}}, language = {English}, publisher = {Addison Wesley}, author = {Argyris, Chris and Schon, Donald A.}, month = may, year = {1978}, } @book{holling_adaptive_1978, address = {Chichester}, series = {International series on applied systems analysis}, title = {Adaptive environmental assessment and management}, isbn = {978-0-471-99632-3}, url = {http://pure.iiasa.ac.at/id/eprint/823/1/XB-78-103.pdf}, number = {3}, urldate = {2023-11-07}, publisher = {Wiley}, editor = {Holling, C. S.}, year = {1978}, keywords = {Ecology, Economic development, Environmental impact analysis, Environmental protection}, } @book{tendler_inside_1975, address = {Baltimore; London}, title = {Inside {Foreign} {Aid}}, isbn = {978-0-8018-2016-8}, abstract = {A classic, important study in the anthropology of development, grounded in the author's own work within USAID, and analysis of the organizational and institutional pressures that constrain and shape development agency employees' cognition and action.}, language = {English}, publisher = {The Johns Hopkins University Press}, author = {Tendler, Judith}, year = {1975}, keywords = {IMPORTANT}, } @book{chambers_managing_1974, title = {Managing {Rural} {Development}: {Ideas} and {Experience} from {East} {Africa}}, isbn = {978-91-7106-075-4}, shorttitle = {Managing {Rural} {Development}}, language = {en}, publisher = {Scandinavian Institute of African Studies}, author = {Chambers, Robert}, year = {1974}, note = {Google-Books-ID: W4IsAAAAMAAJ}, } @book{schumacher_small_1973, address = {London}, title = {Small is beautiful: economics as if people mattered}, shorttitle = {Small is beautiful}, publisher = {Blond \& Briggs}, author = {Schumacher, Ernst Friedrich}, year = {1973}, } @book{hirschman_development_1967, address = {Washington, DC}, title = {Development {Projects} {Observed}}, isbn = {978-0-8157-3651-6}, abstract = {The experience accumulated in the wake of more than two decades of sustained effort to promote growth and change in the low-income countries presents a rich field for scholarly inquiry and new insights into the development process. The success and failures of such projects, the new skills and attitudes they impart, and the internal tensions they sometimes generate obviously have an important bearing on the next stages of a county's development effort. Yet little has become known about these truly formative experiences which are due to the behavior —and misbehavior —of development projects. In this recent volume, Professor Albert O. Hirschman turns his attention to the ways in which decision making is molded, activated, or hampered by the specific nature of the project that is undertaken; for example, the establishment and operation of a pulp and paper mill in east Pakistan, an irrigation project in Peru, railway expansion in Nigeria, and other development undertakings. In some parts of the present inquiry Hirschman elaborates on his earlier writings in this series; and occasionally, he qualifies or modifies his previous conclusions; the bulk of the study explores new territory.}, language = {English}, publisher = {Brookings Institution}, author = {Hirschman, Albert O.}, year = {1967}, } @book{rogers_diffusion_1962, title = {Diffusion of {Innovations}}, isbn = {978-0-598-41104-4}, abstract = {Traditions of research on diffusion; Culture, norms, and diffusion; The adoption process; Characteristics of the innovation; Adopter categories; Innovators as deviants: in step with a different drummer; Opinion leaders and the flow of ideas; The role of the change agent and the consequences of innovation; Predicting innovativeness; Toward a theory of the diffusion and adoption of innovations.}, language = {en}, publisher = {Free Press of Glencoe}, author = {Rogers, Everett M.}, year = {1962}, } @book{needham_science_1956, address = {Cambridge}, title = {Science and {Civilisation} in {China}. {Vol}. 1 {Introductory} {Orientations}}, isbn = {978-0-521-05799-8}, shorttitle = {001}, abstract = {Dr Joseph Needham's account of the Chinese achievement in science and technology will stand as one of the great works of our time. It has been acclaimed by specialists in both East and West and also by readers with wider and more general interests. The text, based on research of a high critical quality, is supported by many hundreds of illustrations and is imbued with a warm appreciation of China. Volume I is an introductory volume, in which Dr Needham prepares his readers for the study of a whole human culture. He begins by examining the structure of the Chinese language; he reviews the geography of China and the long history of its people, and discusses the scientific contacts which have occurred throughout the centuries, between Europe and East Asia.}, language = {English}, publisher = {Cambridge University Press}, author = {Needham, Joseph}, month = jan, year = {1956}, } @book{lewin_field_1951, address = {New York}, title = {Field {Theory} in {Social} {Science}: {Selected} {Theoretical} {Papers}}, shorttitle = {Field {Theory} in {Social} {Science}}, url = {https://www.amazon.com/Field-Theory-Social-Science-Theoretical/dp/B000JJ0WN2}, publisher = {Harper \& Brothers}, author = {Lewin, Kurt}, year = {1951}, }