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Adaptive Management in Practice: A Market Systems Application in Bangladesh

This webinar discusses the practical adaptations in operational and technical approaches implemented in USAID's Agricultural Value Chain (AVC) activity in Bangladesh to support the application of market systems facilitation. Speakers ...

Adapting to complex markets

Do you want to learn about systems thinking and how to apply adaptive management? Then come join us on this online course that is a guided and grounded learning experience ...

Putting adaptive management into practice

Practitioners trying to create systems change in dynamic environments recognise the need to continually learn, experiment, and change their strategies to maximise impact.

New evidence! What difference does collaborating, learning, and adapting make to development?

Results of a literature review on the evidence base for collaborating, learning and adapting!

BEAM webinar: Hiring managers for adaptive management - from recruitment to retainment

The development community continues to recognise the need for managing programmes adaptively, particularly when pursuing systemic change. Managing in this way involves experimentation amidst ambiguity, changing plans, and extensive knowledge ...

Design thinking, empathy and adaptive management

What do design thinking and empathy have to do with adaptive management? How do these concepts inform our use of qualitative data? And how does all of this improve our ...

Rapid experiments with a purpose

How Global Integrity use theories of change to make small bets, learn, and adapt.

Right-sizing MRM for adaptive management experimentation

Good monitoring and results measurement is possible when running adaptive management experiments.

Structured experimentation: getting at the core of adaptive management

Adding structure to experimentation can help us manage unknowability and complexity much better.

Creating an adaptive culture and speeding up the time it takes to adapt

How human-centered design helped CARE's social enterprise become more adaptive.

When contracts are not enough: adaptive management and private sector engagement

5 ways the team at iDE practice adaptive management when they partner with the private sector.

Theories for change or theories of change?

Theories of change are important, but are they a necessity? Read how the GRO programme embraced uncertainty and risk-taking, without a ToC.

BEAM webinar: Hiring managers for adaptive management

BEAM Exchange

The development community continues to recognise the need for managing programmes adaptively, particularly when pursuing systemic change. Managing in this way involves experimentation amidst ambiguity, changing plans, and extensive knowledge ...

How to! Develop adaptive partnerships with private sector firms without breaking the rules of compliance

DAI

USAID Bangladesh AVC project, implemented by DAI, has a mandate to work with the private sector through a market systems approach. This How To! note describes an innovative grant and ...

Adaptive programming in practice: Implementing structured hypothesis-testing and experimentation

BEAM Exchange

The international development community has acknowledged the usefulness of adaptive management in navigating the uncertainty inherent in complex problems such as poverty and inequality. This is particularly true in market ...

Four ways to increase experimentation in your theory of change

Forget static TOCs, these four evolving management practices can spark ideas for experimentation in your TOC and in turn make your analysis and strategies dynamic.

Demigods in charge

What's so special about team leaders of market systems development programmes?

Nothin' but attitude: correcting the failure of leadership recruitment to get more effective and adaptive leaders

How can we change a broken recruitment system to get more effective and adaptive leaders?

How implementers can help donors be adaptive

Donor institutions are packed full of passionate professionals who want to support positive system change. But they need help! Here, Ian Randall shares practical strategies to help donors be adaptive.

Making the donor-implementer relationship more than a marriage of convenience

To get better at adaptive management, we need to change the nature of the donor-implementer relationship.