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Volume 12, Numbers 3&4

• Editorial
  • Editorial 12(3&4)
    Eade, Deborah
• Guest Editorial
  • Guest Editorial 12(3&4)
    Roper, Laura; Pettit, Jethro
• Articles
  • Operationalising bottom-up learning in international NGOs: barriers and alternatives
    Power, Grant; Maury, Matthew; Maury, Susan
  • Should development agencies have Official Views?
    Ellerman, David
  • Engendering organisational practice in NGOs: the case of Utthan
    Ahmed, Sara
  • Organisational Learning: a borrowed toolbox?
    Kelleher, David; The Gender at Work Collaborative
  • Making the organisation learn: demystification and management action
    Padaki, Vijay
  • Achieving successful academic-practitioner research collaborations
    Roper, Laura
  • Knowledge to action: evaluation for learning in a multi-organisational global partnership
    Solomon, Marla J.; Chowdhury, A. Mushtaque R.
  • Guest learning and adaptation in the field: a Navajo case study
    Debebe, Gelaye
  • Can bilateral programmes become learning organisations? Experiences from institutionalising participation in Keiyo Marakwet in Kenya
    Musyoki, Samuel
  • A chocolate-coated case for alternative international business models
    Tiffen, Pauline
  • Learning leaders: the key to learning organisations
    Hailey, John; James, Rick
  • Leading learning and change from the middle: re-conceptualising strategys purpose, content, and measures
    Beckwith, Colin; Glenzer, Kent; Fowler, Alan
  • The struggle for organisational change: how the ActionAid Accountability, Learning and Planning System emerged
    Scott-Villiers, Patta
  • Heifer International: growing a learning organisation
    Dierolf, Thomas S.; Kern, Rienzzi; Ogborn, Tim; Protti, Mark; Schwartz, Marvin
  • New learning in old organisations: childrens participation in a school-based nutrition project in western Kenya
    Ogoye-Ndegwa, Charles; Abudho, Domnic; Aagaard-Hansen, Jens
  • Organisational learning in NGOs: an example of an intervention based on the work of Chris Argyris
    Bloch, Didier; Borges, Nora
  • Mainstreaming disaster mitigation: challenges to organisational learning in NGOs
    Twigg, John; Steiner, Diane
  • The learning process of the Local Capacities for Peace Project
    Wallace, Marshall
  • Humanitarian principles and organisational culture: everyday practice in Médecins Sans Frontières-Holland
    Hilhorst, Dorothea; Schmiemann, Nadja
  • Perceptions and practices of monitoring and evaluation: international NGO experiences in Ethiopia
    Mebrahtu, Esther
  • Learning from complexity: the International Development Research Centres experience with Outcome Mapping
    Earl, Sarah; Carden, Fred
  • Modelling learning programmes
    den Heyer, Molly
  • Learning for change: the art of assessing the impact of advocacy work
    Coates, Barry; David, Rosalind
• Book Reviews

Learning from complexity: the International Development Research Centres experience with Outcome Mapping

Earl, Sarah; Carden, Fred

This paper introduces the major concepts of Outcome Mapping and discusses the International Development Research Centres experience in developing and implementing Outcome Mapping with Northern and Southern research organisations. It explores how the fundamental principles of Outcome Mapping relate to organisational learning principles and the challenges associated with applying theory to practice. It presents cases where planning, monitoring, and evaluation processes have been used to encourage learning and improvement, and discusses the potential of Outcome Mapping as a tool for evaluative thinking to build learning into development programmes.

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Keywords: Aid; Civil society; Methods; North America

   

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