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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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UN-HABITAT Knowledge Strategy: Building Knowledge Based Organization
This UN-Habitat report focuses on internal knowledge management, offering quick wins for effective implementation of a knowledge strategy, systems for internal information exchange,…
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The Barefoot Guide
The Barefoot Guide Connection is an open network of social change practitioners and leaders. Their free, downloadable, and practical resources were developed for leaders,…
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Taking Responsibility For Complexity: How Implementation Can Achieve Results In The Face Of Complex Problems
This paper sets out the central reasons why complex problems are challenging for traditional approaches to policy and programme implementation, and gives readers the tools to decide…
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Evaluation 2009/2 Knowledge Managment and Institutional Learning in Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC)
This is a valuable resource on the evaluation of the KM and Institutional Learning (IL) at the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC). This evaluation presents major…
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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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Recommended Performance Indicator Reference Sheet
This content is currently under revision to align with the recently updated ADS 201.
For guidance and support associated with revisions to ADS 201, please see the Program Cycle…
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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…