It's great to these approaches and helps to understand systems improvement delivery planning. Like Mary said, please train staff. You not only improve your work and staff capacity, you create a pool of experts for the entire industry to deliver better quality outputs outcomes and a more sustainable impact. It's a win - win for all in the end as you get your value for money in return.

Very well said Mary Morgan!

Until we as a field, appreciate that colleagues need access to quality capacity building in systems thinking and understanding the elements and characteristics of complex adaptive systems, understanding feedback loops and the leverage points are to focus interventions to pilot and assess if that will influence systemic change; adaptive management is a nice idea.

Very interesting depiction of MC actualizing adaptive management. What is still weak in the presentation is how you are building capacity with your staff on the ground. You do have a bubble labeled ‘Providing technical support for process’—but this is not about capacity building across the board so that all staff understands they are addressing market failure in a market system, not just facilitating an intervention! Adaptive management requires knowledge and skills- not just technical support parachuting in. One of the root causes to the inability to apply adaptive management is the lack of staff capacity in how to do a market systems analysis and understanding the basics of systems thinking-- How can we ever expect to do adaptive management if field staff have no idea what market failure is? or how to be constantly looking for feedback from the field through critical reflection, observations, dialoguing (talking with instead of talking at)?

And if you'd rather read about our journey in a blog, check out this overview on the USAID Learning Lab website https://usaidlearninglab.org/lab-notes/how-can-organizations-encourage-adaptive-management-three-insights-mercy-corps%E2%80%99-evolution