Are we suffering from obsessive measurement disorder?Insight | 15 August 2019 | Tiina PasanenMore data doesn’t necessarily mean we make better decisions. It often means just having more data that is not used. Read and comment
Monitoring and learning for country-level portfolio decision-making and adaptationBriefing papers | May 2019 | Anne Buffardi, Paige Mason, Claire Hutchings and Samuel SharpThis briefing aims to guide measurement and management of country-level portfolios of work, drawing on reviews of practice from DFID and USAID. Downloads
How DFID can better manage complexity in development programmingBriefing papers | April 2019 | Samuel Sharp, Craig Valters and Brendan WhittyThis briefing note explores how DFID can design and manage flexible systems to deal with complex development challenges. Downloads
Three ways to incorporate evaluative thinking in monitoringInsight | 12 April 2019 | Tiina PasanenHow tools and approaches like learning partners, self-assessment scorecards and outcome mapping can help foster evaluative thinking. Read and comment
Making adaptive rigour work: principles and practices for strengthening MEL for adaptive management Briefing papers | April 2019 | Ben Ramalingam, Leni Wild and Anne BuffardiAdaptive programmes can be accountable, rigorous and high quality in how they use evidence by taking an 'adaptive rigour' approach. Downloads
‘Learning partners’: overcoming the collective action dilemma of inter-organisational knowledge generation and sharing?Journal articles or issues | March 2019 | Anne Buffardi, Blane Harvey, Tiina PasanenThe article offers a systematic approach and questions to guide future inquiry into the roles of learning partners and their effectiveness in practice. Downloads
Measuring the hard-to-measure in development: dimensions, measurement challenges, and responsesJournal articles or issues | March 2019 | Anne Buffardi, Tiina Pasanen, Simon HearnThis article focuses on measurement challenges affecting evidence credibility and sources of information that inform development policy and practice. Downloads
Outcome monitoring and learning in large multi-stakeholder research programmes: lessons from the PRISE consortiumResearch reports and studies | December 2018 | Tiina Pasanen, Kaia Ambrose, Samavia Batool, Lancelot Ehode Soumelong, Robina Abuya, Helen Mountfort and Nathalie NatheThis paper focuses on outcome monitoring and learning in multi-stakeholder research programmes by highlighting lessons from the PRISE research consortium. Downloads
Monitoring the effect of advocacy in changing political willWorking and discussion papers | November 2018 | Helen Tilley, George Sagoe-Addy, Josephine Tsui, Hannah Caddick and Jessica MackenzieThis guidance note presents a systematic approach to monitoring the behavioural changes of policymakers against intended policy objectives. Downloads
Why we should be accountable for learning – and where to startInsight | 2 August 2018 | Tiina PasanenLearning is important and we all agree we should do more, but the reality is that we often don’t have resources to do it properly. So, what to do? Read and comment
