Monday, January 9th, 2012
by Scott Page, 2011. Available on Google Books Princeton University Press, 14/07/2011 - 296 pages
Abstract: This book provides an introduction to the role of diversity in complex adaptive systems. A complex system--such as an economy or a tropical ecosystem--consists of interacting adaptive entities that produce dynamic patterns and structures. Diversity ...
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Thursday, October 27th, 2011
October 26, 2011 by Chris Roche.
On 19 October 2011, Oxfam Australia hosted a ‘Big Push Forward‘ event in Melbourne with the co-conveners of this initiative – Rosalind Eyben and Irene Guijt. Sixty development practitioners, including AusAid staff and academics came together to discuss whether the concerns voiced by the Big ...
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Monday, September 19th, 2011
Michael Quinn Patton, August 2011. Sage publications
Publisher's description:
"Based on Michael Quinn Patton's best-selling Utilization-Focused Evaluation, this briefer book provides an overall framework and essential checklist steps for designing and conducting evaluations that actually get used. The new material and innovative graphics present the utilization-focused evaluation process as a complex adaptive system, ...
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Monday, September 19th, 2011
Date: 17-18 October 2011
Venue: ANU, Canberra, Australia
Concept Note, Chris Roche & Linda Kelly, 4 August 2011
The Developmental Leadership Program (DLP)[1] addresses an important gap in international thinking and policy about the critical role played by leaders, elites and coalitions in the politics of development. At the core of DLP thinking ...
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Wednesday, August 31st, 2011
Kim Forss, Mita Marra and Robert Schwartz, editors. Transaction Publishers, New Brunswick. May 2011. Available via Amazon
"Problem-solving by policy initiative has come to stay. Overarching policy intiatives are now standard modus operandi for governmental and non-governmental organisations. But complex policy initiatives are not only reserved for the big challenges of ...
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Thursday, May 26th, 2011
Marc Maxson, Irene Guijt, and others, 2010. GlobalGiving Foundation (supported by Rockefeller Foundation). Available as pdf. See also the related website.
["Real Book" = The Real Book is a central part of the culture of playing music where improvisation is essential. Real books are not for beginners: the reader interprets scant ...
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Sunday, May 22nd, 2011
Iñigo Retolaza Eguren, HIVOS/DD/UNDP, May 2011 Available as pdf.
"This guide has been jointly published by Hivos and UNDP, and is aimed at the rich constellation of actors linked to processes of social development and change: bilateral donors, community leaders, political and social leaders, NGO’s representatives, community-base ...
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Thursday, May 19th, 2011
(via Bob Williams on EvalSys)
Systemic Approaches in Evaluation
Documentation of the Conference on 25-26 January 2011
"Development programs promote complex reforms and change processes. Such processes are often characterized by insecurity and unpredictability, posing a big challenge to the evaluation of development projects. In order to understand which ...
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Thursday, April 21st, 2011
Utrecht Conference Report. Irene Guijt, Jan Brouwers, Cecile Kusters, Ester Prins and Bayaz Zeynalova. March 2011. Available as pdf
This report summarises the outline and outputs of the Conference ‘Evaluation Revisited: Improving the Quality of Evaluative Practice by Embracing Complexity’’, which took place on May 20-21, 2010. It also adds additional ...
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Monday, April 4th, 2011
[from the IDS Virtual Bulletin, March 2011]
Introduction
In this virtual Bulletin we bring together ten articles dating from across three decades. They all address Impact. From the outset, we ...
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