"The How-to Note is a brief, user-friendly guide that helps program design teams understand and prioritize the Digital Principles most relevant to their work. Through a series of leading questions and worksheets, this digital activity design checklist provides actionable guidance for each Digital Pr
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inciple and shares additional resources for ensuring that programs are well-designed and effective." (Publisher description)
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"Outcome Mapping was developed 20 years ago by the International Development Research Centre and for many in the development sector it has become a staple in planning, monitoring and evaluation toolkits. Countless organisations across the world have applied and adapted Outcome Mapping for their own
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projects and programmes, tailored to their needs and contexts. Every now and then we hear about these applications and, as a community of practitioners, we get to learn from them and improve our own understanding and practice. AGIAMONDO is one such organisation, and Managing Outcomes is its generous contribution to our community, building on over ten years of experience with Outcome Mapping. AGIAMONDO have taken the tools and principles of Outcome Mapping and adapted them to their institutional context, using the elements that work best for them, and offering a number of different tools to complement the original OM tools. While AGIAMONDO have developed this approach for their own projects and those of their partner organisations, Managing Outcomes offers an opportunity for learning and discussion for the Outcome Mapping Learning Community. In particular, Managing Outcomes includes a section on situation analysis which helps lay a clear foundation for project planning and it provides a detailed guide for monitoring, reflection and self-evaluation. Through these additions, AGIAMONDO has distilled many practices and innovations in planning, monitoring and evaluation that have arisen since OM was first developed [...]" (Foreword, page iv)
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"The Design Thinking Toolbox explains the most important tools and methods to put Design Thinking into action. Based on the largest international survey on the use of design thinking, the most popular methods are described in four pages each by an expert from the global Design Thinking community. If
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you are involved in innovation, leadership, or design, these are tools you need. Simple instructions, expert tips, templates, and images help you implement each tool or method: quickly and comprehensively familiarize yourself with the best design thinking tools; select the appropriate warm-ups, tools, and methods; explore new avenues of thinking; plan the agenda for different design thinking workshops; get practical application tips." (Publisher description)
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"A theory of change is a concise, explicit explanation of: "If we do X, and Y holds true, then we'll achieve Z because a, b, and c." With this structure, the TOC makes clear how (if-then) and why (because) the project team expects or assumes that certain actions will produce desired changes for indi
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viduals, groups, communities or institutions in the environment where the project will be implemented. TOCs can be developed for different levels of the objectives hierarchy. A "high level" TOC articulates how successful achievement of the project's end-of-project objectives or outcomes (SOs) will be contributing to longer-term, broader, lasting change (project's goal). However, often TOCs are developed to describe the whole causal chain - from activities to outputs, from outputs to IRs, from IRs to SOs, and SOs to goal. In this case, the TOC typically splits into complementary "if-then-because" statements that focus on the changes that the design team is least certain about - where assumptions are greater, or evidence is less strong. Presenting a more comprehensive, multi-level TOC enables the design team to investigate and explain the interaction between various activities or strategies; in other words, it helps describe pathways of change. Pathways of change identify the connections between different preconditions, and how they relate to or mutually reinforce each other, and describe the sequence in which they are to be achieved." (Page 3)
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"The first chapter is devoted to the project development phase. It includes advice and guidance to anyone considering using participatory video (within the context of anti-corruption work) together with recommendations for key elements in the planning stage. Subsequent chapters explore critical tech
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niques for facilitating corruption-focussed projects; from the workshop stages through to fieldwork and audience engagement. A collection of detailed case studies conclude the guidebook. These describe the participatory video projects implemented by Transparency International and InsightShare, together with an extra case study from a project that addressed corruption in the school system implemented by the India-based organisation Video Volunteers. The basic techniques and approaches of participatory video are not included in this guide. The guide does not include exercises for participants to learn technical skills, develop story structures, undertake group-based filmmaking, or ice-breakers and other complimentary workshop activities [...] Instead, this guide presents specific considerations for those designing corruption-focussed projects and provides a range of exercises for the facilitators. While the focus is on addressing issues of corruption, many of the ideas and approaches will be useful to practitioners in general. The sections on Choosing Participatory Video, Participant Selection, Project Structure, and Free, Prior and Informed Consent are likely to be relevant to a wide-range of projects." (Page 9)
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"Managing Outcomes is its generous contribution to our community, building on over ten years of experience with Outcome Mapping (OM). AGEH have taken the tools and principles of Outcome Mapping and adapted them to their institutional context, using the elements that work best for them, and offering
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a number of different tools to complement the original OM tools. While AGEH have developed this approach for their own projects and those of their partner organisations, Managing Outcomes offers an opportunity for learning and discussion for the Outcome Mapping Learning Community. In particular, Managing Outcomes includes a section on situation analysis which helps lay a clear foundation for project planning and it provides a detailed guide for monitoring, reflection and self-evaluation. Through these additions, AGEH has distilled many practices and innovations in planning, monitoring and evaluation that have arisen since Outcome Mapping was first developed." (Foreword, page iv)
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"Engagement of key stakeholder groups in operations financed by the Asian Development Bank (ADB) promotes good governance, transparency, innovation, responsiveness, and development effectiveness. Effective engagement of stakeholder groups, including civil society, project beneficiaries, and project-
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affected people, requires the understanding and effective use of participatory tools throughout the project cycle. However, while one participatory tool may work well in one context, it may not be appropriate in another. This series of explainers provides a range of tools from which practitioners can pick and choose, according to different phases of the ADB project cycle, context, and available time/resources. Some tools may be specific to particular phases in the ADB project cycle, such as monitoring and evaluation tools, while others may be used throughout the project cycle, such as participatory assessment tools." (Stakeholder analysis, page 16)
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"To understand the changes brought about by a project or programme it is first necessary to understand what the original situation was. This is known as the baseline. Baselines can range from simple data collection exercises through to large, expensive surveys. They are an important part of many M&E
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systems. Baselines are normally carried out at or near to the start of a project or programme." (Introduction)
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"With more than 500 new apps entering the market every day, what does it take to build a successful digital product? You can greatly reduce your risk of failure with design sprints, a process that enables your team to prototype and test a digital product idea within a week. This practical guide show
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s you exactly what a design sprint involves and how you can incorporate the process into your organization. Design sprints not only let you test digital product ideas before you pour too many resources into a project, they also help everyone get on board — whether they're team members, decision makers, or potential users. You'll know within days whether a particular product idea is worth pursuing." (Publisher description)
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"A Guide to Assessing Needs offers a much broader perspective than many texts on project management or evaluation. It presents needs assessment within a results framework that applies to international development projects equally as well as to a variety of other contexts. An exceptionally wide range
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of data collection and decision-making tools are presented, along with descriptions of the purpose and rationale for each tool, its strengths and weaknesses, the process through which it is implemented, and tips for success. The book is a user-friendly reference manual, offering information for selecting among the diverse approaches to achieve results. The authors bring together tools and techniques from diverse disciplines so that even experienced professionals are likely to find many new approaches for collecting information and guiding decisions." (Back cover)
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"The European Commission has begun to integrate a political economy approach throughout the project cycle. This guide tailors the political economy approach to the media development sector specifically. Using a political economy media matrix (PEMM) as its basis, it explains how to integrate the PE a
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pproach throughout the programme cycle." (Background, page 4)
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"This guide outlines a step-by-step process for developing program logic in the context of Natural Resource Management (NRM). The guide is aimed at those who are developing a program logic for the first time and may also be helpful to other users in a range of contexts. Developing a program logic is
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about establishing a framework for methodically exploring and defining the parameters of a project. Because it serves as a roadmap for a project, a program logic helps to give participants greater confidence that their efforts will be comprehensive and effective. In this guide, the term ‘program’ covers all levels of intervention, whether through a project, program, strategy or activity, as well as program design and evaluation. Through a series of exercises, templates and checklists, this guide outlines the key steps in developing a program logic." (Introduction)
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