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Ideas and tools to apply learning practices
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Facilitative Leadership - Using Facilitation to Enable Strategic Collaboration
The Africa Lead program, Feed the Future’s primary capacity building program in sub-Saharan Africa, has found how to use facilitation strategically - what they call facilitative…
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The Scorecard Toolkit
This toolkit has been designed to be used by many kinds of users from institutions operating in different sectors. The toolkit is generic in nature and can be applied in any…
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Outcome Harvesting: A Complexity-Aware Monitoring Approach
Outcome Harvesting is one of five complexity-aware monitoring approaches promoted by USAID’s Complexity-Aware M&E Team. Outcome Harvesting works backwards to identify,…
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Lessons Learned from Evaluation: Using a Problem Tree Approach
This paper, written by M. J. Spilsbury, C. Perch, S. Norgbey, G. Rauniyar and C.Battaglino for the United Nations Environment Programme presents a framework for…
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Most Significant Change: A Complexity-Aware Monitoring Approach
USAID’s Complexity-Aware M&E Team championed five approaches to complexity-aware monitoring, which the Team supported through trials. One of these approaches is Most Significant…
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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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Interactive Planning
Interactive planning, as defined and disseminated on by Russell L. Ackoff, focuses on creating the future by designing a desirable present. Interactive planning is unlike other…
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Making Evaluations Matter: A Practical Guide for Evaluators
The guide attempts to provide an overall evaluation framework with guiding principles for conducting an evaluation. It brings together existing concepts, evaluation methods and…
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Participatory Impact Pathways Analysis: A Practical Method for Project Planning and Evaluation
Participatory Impact Pathways Analysis (PIPA) is an umbrella term to describe both the participatory construction of impact pathways and their subsequent use. This brief focuses on…
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Communities of Practice and Networks: Reviewing Two Perspectives on Social Learning
This paper examines two different approaches used to describe and analyse similar phenomena: ‘networks for learning’ and ‘communities of practice’. These approaches are both…