…and possibilities At a global level, RHV staff were required by DFID to revise each country logframe and indicators in line with the ToC Quite independently of any suggestions from…
Building State Capability: Review of an important (and practical) new book
…bosses and funders, they propose a ‘searchframe’ to replace the much-denounced logframe. This establishes a firm and rapid timetable of ‘iteration check-ins’ where progress is assessed and new ideas or…
Why building ‘resilience’ matters, and needs to confront injustice and inequality
…a logframe and then ignoring them) and then scale up and down as appropriate. The newly fashionable focus on resilience can help communities not only to cope but to thrive…
Is Trust the missing piece in a lot of development thinking?
…especially if the result is core funding that allows organizations to experiment, innovate, adapt and if necessary, fail, without suffering death by logframe. Another way they get over the trust…
What could Foundations add to the aid mix? A conversation with the Children’s Investment Fund Foundation
…more like the rest of the aid biz (logframes, insistence on illusory levels of certainty on impact etc etc). It’s a curious phenomenon: in government aid ministries, politicians who in…
When/how does aid help Africa’s public services work better?
…boil down to stubborn individuals in the aid sector, willing to ride the two horses of satisfying the demands of logframe/results-based aid, while operating in the real world of messy,…
Adaptive Management in large programmes: Great new Practical Guide
…logframe outcomes and indicators to demonstrate attribution / contribution. External evaluation, generally only at mid-point and end. Guided by program logic with some space to reflect on deviations. Identifies system level…
Of Sasquatches and Flexible Programming: A genuine sighting
…difference, for instance, between changing some inputs in your logframe once or twice, to regularly revising your theory of change (and thus also your programme activities) to reflect changing dynamics….
Seven Rules of Thumb for Adaptive Management – what do you think?
…while the pointy-headed might prefer ‘heuristics’) because the last thing we wanted to come up with was a new prescriptive toolkit/future logframe. Here’s what we came up with – not…
Rules of Thumb – good idea or double-edged sword?
…write them down, won’t they lose their authentic, instinctive quality, as institutional culture becomes just another page in the logframe/theory of change? Won’t donors start trying to lobby to change…
Take-up and Doubt: where have we got to on Thinking and Working Politically?
…direction of travel for the next 6 months –Matt Andrews’ ‘searchframe’ (right) alternative to the logframe is already in operation. An Advocacy Strategy for TWP? If we can resolve the…
Can we demonstrate effectiveness without bankrupting our NGO and/or becoming a randomista?
…entirely absent. But what of the fact that donors have been encouraging us to pursue outcome indicator tracking for decades now through instruments such as the logframe, as part of…