Why Adaptive Management is more important than ever. Lessons from an Indonesian Governance program. Maliki, Graham Teskey, Anna Winoto, and Michael Woolcock. In recent years, the term ‘adaptive management’ has lost some of its gravitas. As can often happen in the development sector, terminology can come in and out of fashion. However, adaptive management in …
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By Duncan Green of Oxfam and the brains behind From Poverty to Power Spent yesterday at a Washington workshop on ‘From Thinking Politically to Working Politically’, organized by Abt Associates, whose Graham Teskey is one of the TWP gurus. What struck me most was the combination of the spreading acceptance of TWP approaches within the aid …
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I have always been interested in institutions[1], although I haven’t always been aware of it. As a child I remember wondering about the logic which underlay the admonition to keep one’s elbows off the dining table. I never dared ask, as my father was somewhat authoritarian. I remember thinking to myself, well, who says so? …
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