Comments on: What can NGOs/others learn from DFID’s shift to ‘adaptive development’? https://oxfamblogs.org/fp2p/how-are-dfid-ngos-and-others-shifting-to-adaptive-development/ How active citizens and effective states can change the world Thu, 13 Jul 2017 06:57:02 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=4.2.15 By: Matt https://oxfamblogs.org/fp2p/how-are-dfid-ngos-and-others-shifting-to-adaptive-development/#comment-198286 Mon, 07 Mar 2016 10:54:12 +0000 http://oxfamblogs.org/fp2p/?p=20868#comment-198286 there are industries which invest in learning when things go wrong – to make sure they don’t go wrong again – the aviation industry is a case in point, they see that investing in learning from what goes wrong saves them money in the long run – pilots and others are expected to report failures and mistakes, near misses etc, and when things do go wrong there are the black boxes, independent investigation teams etc to find out why… take the aid ‘industry’ it is in everyone’s interests (apart for those we are trying to support) to under report failure and over report success…. too many careers at stake. we really need to re think how we deal with failure so that we can learn and improve… oh yes and while we are at it we need to redesign the unit of delivery of change – the project makes sense administratively but I don’t think it make sense if we are talking about change…but that is for another time. thanks for posting Duncan it was both interesting and short – both of which are very often lacking these days.

]]> By: Søren https://oxfamblogs.org/fp2p/how-are-dfid-ngos-and-others-shifting-to-adaptive-development/#comment-34050 Mon, 17 Aug 2015 22:17:33 +0000 http://oxfamblogs.org/fp2p/?p=20868#comment-34050 Cheers – quick responding! Will check it out.

]]> By: Dom Winter https://oxfamblogs.org/fp2p/how-are-dfid-ngos-and-others-shifting-to-adaptive-development/#comment-34045 Mon, 17 Aug 2015 22:03:27 +0000 http://oxfamblogs.org/fp2p/?p=20868#comment-34045 Hiya, not my work so can’t help with a peek but it’s coming partly with The Converging World:
http://www.theconvergingworld.org/what_we_do

]]> By: Søren https://oxfamblogs.org/fp2p/how-are-dfid-ngos-and-others-shifting-to-adaptive-development/#comment-33935 Mon, 17 Aug 2015 19:47:47 +0000 http://oxfamblogs.org/fp2p/?p=20868#comment-33935 *peek

]]> By: Søren https://oxfamblogs.org/fp2p/how-are-dfid-ngos-and-others-shifting-to-adaptive-development/#comment-33934 Mon, 17 Aug 2015 19:46:50 +0000 http://oxfamblogs.org/fp2p/?p=20868#comment-33934 Sounds interesting Dom. Any chance of getting a peak you think? Possibly via twitter or gmail. My prefix is [sjarnvig] in both places.

]]> By: Dom Winter https://oxfamblogs.org/fp2p/how-are-dfid-ngos-and-others-shifting-to-adaptive-development/#comment-26588 Wed, 05 Aug 2015 14:20:52 +0000 http://oxfamblogs.org/fp2p/?p=20868#comment-26588 I agree. There’s some theoretical/academic work ongoing at the University of Bristol’s Systems Centre on this area, not published quite yet though.

]]> By: Kate https://oxfamblogs.org/fp2p/how-are-dfid-ngos-and-others-shifting-to-adaptive-development/#comment-23743 Thu, 30 Jul 2015 05:56:34 +0000 http://oxfamblogs.org/fp2p/?p=20868#comment-23743 Also, on identifying adaptive outliers – a USAID competition to identify good examples of programmes that are ‘collaborating, learning and adapting’ just popped into my inbox. Impressive influence, Duncan. Only open to organisations linked to USAID (and so focused on aid programmes not countries), but may come up with some interesting examples. http://usaidlearninglab.org/cla-case-competition

]]> By: Kate https://oxfamblogs.org/fp2p/how-are-dfid-ngos-and-others-shifting-to-adaptive-development/#comment-23741 Wed, 29 Jul 2015 19:41:46 +0000 http://oxfamblogs.org/fp2p/?p=20868#comment-23741 I thought this was a great meeting. On the adaptive management among NGOs vs TWG/DDD among academics and donors divide – there are probably divides between disciplines as well as sectors eg there’s been talk for years about adaptive management among academics working on sustainable development/environmental issues, involving some similar ideas to the politics and governance thinking.

On the lack of crossover – one potential obstacle is that discussions hosted by membership networks may not be open to others(eg group meetings and online workspaces that aren’t accessible to non-members – which doesn’t help all this intersectoral collaboration and NGO-academic partnership we like to talk about). One of the great things about the learning partnership meeting was that it was open to anyone. It would be great to host future physical or online discussions in a way that allows anyone to participate (donors, academics, NGOs). (I don’t know if this is an actual barrier to joint discussion or just my personal grudge as an ex-BOND member who now can’t access their activities :))

]]> By: Søren https://oxfamblogs.org/fp2p/how-are-dfid-ngos-and-others-shifting-to-adaptive-development/#comment-23733 Wed, 29 Jul 2015 07:21:46 +0000 http://oxfamblogs.org/fp2p/?p=20868#comment-23733 My answer, of course, in is my comment above. Can I recommend reading up on Community-based/driven Development though. The reminiscence is striking. It was embraced from all over and build on the idea that the ‘target of intervention’ was endlessly resourceful if you just got a bit out of the way.

]]> By: Duncan Green https://oxfamblogs.org/fp2p/how-are-dfid-ngos-and-others-shifting-to-adaptive-development/#comment-23707 Fri, 24 Jul 2015 11:53:56 +0000 http://oxfamblogs.org/fp2p/?p=20868#comment-23707 Yep, we have a fuzzword on our hands, with all the pluses and minuses that go with that. Pluses – lots of conversations within a fuzzy boundary of a new approach. Downsides: people rebranding other things as this thing, saying they are doing it already and generally diluting the idea. Any answers?

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