A number of pieces caught my attention in April, clustered around localisation and the value of politically-informed, locally-led, adaptive responses (PILLAR, as Abt Associates put it) to complex development challenges. At Global Integrity, our strategy has since 2015 acknowledged the interconnectedness of these issues. We provide support that enables frontline actors to operate in learning-centered…
Authored by Alan Hudson We skipped sharing our open and adaptive reads last month. In addition to being stunned and appalled by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and the horrors that have unfolded, we were also busy with closing out the current phase of the Global Integrity Anti-Corruption Evidence program (GI-ACE), and disseminating the findings. There’s…
Over the last five to six years I’ve collated a stash of approximately 1,600 articles relating to issues around adaptive development and open government. While this full list is stored in Evernote and can be searched by keyword and tags, I wanted to take a moment each month to highlight the articles that I found…
It’s been great to see a number of the members of the Transparency and Accountability Initiative publish updated strategies over the last couple of years, with these strategies helping to shape the evolution of the transparency and accountability agenda. We’ve been happy to provide feedback on DFID’s “Open Aid, Open Societies” strategy (here), on the…
A couple of weeks ago I posted a question to the AdaptDev and Pelican [Platform for Evidence-based Learning and Communication for Social Change) communities about Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning Maps (M/E/L Maps). Here’s what I asked: I had an idea last week about producing “M/E/L maps” to help us track, reflect on, and communicate (internally…