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Ideas and tools to apply learning practices
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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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How-To Note: Prepare and Maintain a Performance Management Plan (PMP)
A Performance Management Plan (PMP) is a Mission-wide tool for planning and managing the process of (1) monitoring strategic progress, project performance, programmatic assumptions,…
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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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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…
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InProgress: Integrated Monitoring: A Practical Manual for Organisations That Want to Achieve Results [Outcome Mapping]
Written for non-profits, implementing partners can use this to support their monitoring, while USAID can use it for learning about their programs through monitoring CDCS/CLA. The…
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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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Adaptive Management - Learning About Learning: Lessons on Implementing a KM and Learning Project from the USAID KDMD Project
As part of the Learning About Learning (L-squared) initiative, these one-pagers describe the success of the KDMD experience in "adaptive management," including a definition, value…