Monitoring and learning for country-level portfolio decision-making and adaptation Briefing papers | May 2019 | Anne Buffardi, Paige Mason, Claire Hutchings and Samuel Sharp This 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 programming Briefing papers | April 2019 | Samuel Sharp, Craig Valters and Brendan Whitty This 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 monitoring Insight | 12 April 2019 | Tiina Pasanen How 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 Buffardi Adaptive programmes can be accountable, rigorous and high quality in how they use evidence by taking an 'adaptive rigour' approach. Downloads
Outcome monitoring and learning in large multi-stakeholder research programmes: lessons from the PRISE consortium Research reports and studies | December 2018 | Tiina Pasanen, Kaia Ambrose, Samavia Batool, Lancelot Ehode Soumelong, Robina Abuya, Helen Mountfort and Nathalie Nathe This 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 will Working and discussion papers | November 2018 | Helen Tilley, George Sagoe-Addy, Josephine Tsui, Hannah Caddick and Jessica Mackenzie This 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 start Insight | 2 August 2018 | Tiina Pasanen Learning 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
Policy, change and paradox in Indonesia: implications for the use of knowledge Working and discussion papers | February 2018 | Ajoy Datta, Rachma Nurbani, Gema Satria, Hans Antlov, Ishkak Fatonie and Rudy Sabri This paper explores the specific factors and actors that shape policy processes in Indonesia. Downloads
Communications monitoring, evaluation and learning toolkit Toolkits | January 2018 | Caroline Cassidy and Louise Ball A toolkit to measure and learn from your communications work. Downloads
2018: time to update the DAC evaluation criteria? Insight | 17 January 2018 | Tiina Pasanen Have we stopped seeing the criteria as a useful tool to support our thinking, and started using it instead of thinking? Read and comment
