By: Charles Dhewa; with Wendy Quarry, Dal Brodhead & Ricardo Ramírez, DECI-AM. What is meant by adaptive management? Designing Evaluation and Communication for Impact & Adaptive Management (DECI-AM) is an action research project that mentors IDRC-funded projects in evaluation and communication. As project needs evolve so have the DECI-AM support service which are increasingly supporting [...]
By Sawsan Al Zatari, Ricardo Ramírez and Dal Brodhead, DECI-4. Selecting the right Primary Intended Users (PIUs) can be a challenge (Ramírez, 2021). How can we be sure that we are selecting the right users who will commit to both the journey and the learning process? “The selection of PIUs is part art, part strategy, [...]
By Ricardo Ramirez and Dal Brodhead, DECI-4. Our newly released publication provides guidance in capacity development in evaluation and communication that enhances adaptive management. It is the result of several years of action-research provided by the DECI project supporting IDRC-funded researchers in the Global South. This guide is meant for facilitators of capacity building and [...]
By Ricardo Ramirez and Dal Brodhead, DECI-4. DECI’s raison d’être is to provide evaluation and communication capacity development. How do we know to what extent we have achieved our training objectives? We work directly with individuals who are charged with evaluation design and communication planning in their respective organizations. As they build on their experience [...]
By Ricardo Ramirez and Dal Brodhead, DECI-4. Among the outcomes at the organizational level demonstrated by DECI partners there was an increase in adaptive capacity. Adaptation is evidence of applied learning. Organizational learning is “…knowledge that guides and misguides decision-making, and knowledge that informs and misinforms organizations…” (Levin-Rozalis & Rosenstein, 2005: 86). In the DECI [...]