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Handy, quick reference guides to tools, methods, and approaches that propel development forward and enhance its effects.

 

November 2008
The Reframing Matrix
Everyone sees things differently--knowledge often lies in the eye of the beholder. The reframing matrix enables different perspectives to be generated and used in management processes. It expands the number of options for solving a problem. (No. 20 | November 2008)

Read the paper [ PDF: 349kb | 3 pages ]
Action Learning
Action learning is a structured method that enables small groups to work regularly and collectively on complicated problems, take action, and learn as individuals and as a team while doing so. (No. 19 | November 2008)

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Notions of Knowledge Management
Knowledge management is getting the right knowledge to the right people at the right time, and helping them (with incentives) to apply it in ways that strive to improve organizational performance. (No. 18 | November 2008)

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Outcome Mapping
Development is about people—it is about how they relate to one another and their environment, and how they learn in doing so. Outcome mapping puts people and learning first and accepts unexpected change as a source of innovation. It shifts the focus from changes in state, viz. reduced poverty, to changes in behaviors, relationships, actions, and activities. (No. 17 | November 2008)

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Focusing on Project Metrics
The need to ensure that scarce funding is applied to effective projects is a goal shared by all. Focusing on common parameters of project performance is a means to that end. (No. 16 | November 2008)

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