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Ideas and tools to apply learning practices
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Evaluations for Learning: A Discussion Paper for the UK Not-for-Profit Sector
This paper compares conventional evaluations and evaluations for learning. Some notes are offered for commissioners of evaluations, and the paper concludes with some questions for…
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Outcome Mapping: Building Learning and Reflection into Development Programs
The Evaluation Unit and a number of IDRC programs have been working with Dr. Barry Kibel of the Pacific Institute for Research and Evaluation to adapt his Outcome Engineering…
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Assessing the National Health Information System Tool: An Assessment Tool
This HMN assessment tool is intended to achieve more than simply assess the strengths and weaknesses of the elements and operations of a national HIS. It should move stakeholders…
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Habits of Mind for Cultivating Strategic Thinking & Learning
This document walks through exercises to reflect on thought processes around ambiguity, turbulent environments, and adaptive strategies.
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Unleashing Breakthrough Innovation in Government
Public sector innovators are improving government by replicating the market conditions that have long fostered breakthrough innovation in the private sector
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Mercy Corps PRIME Adaptive Management Resources
By all measures, PRIME is a very complex project; a 62-million dollar project, covering five technical components, managing an innovation fund, addressing gender and disability,…
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Webinar: Reform Strategies for Development Professionals: How to Plan for and Measure Change in Complex Systems
Development practitioners have increasingly realized the value of learning by doing and of incorporating flexibility into program design. These adaptive approaches have particular…
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Managing Complexity: Adaptive Management at Mercy Corps
To be effective in complex environments we need to be more agile and able to adapt to changes in needs and opportunities in a timely and intentional way.This document articulates…
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Outcomes for Money (OxM): An Unorthodox Analysis of Value for Money
This experimental methodology takes a fresh look at the notion of value for money, by redefining ‘value’ as the changes experienced in terms of new knowledge, attitudes and…
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Institutional Capacity Development through an Integrated Needs-Based Practical Approach
This resource shares how World Learning and the QITABI 2 project created a blended approach to provide partners with a roadmap to ultimate system strengthening using USAID's…