…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…
India's slums: how change happens and the challenge of urban programming
…the greater difficulty of establishing attribution in the chaos of the slums, in our logframe-dominated world? Or do we prefer the ceremonies of rural work (the songs, garlands and even…
The Limits of Institutional Reform in Development: a big new book by Matt Andrews
…– a coming together of dissidents from numerous disciplines to reject the logframe/best practice culture and push for something more rooted in reality. Political science, complexity theorists, aid veterans, Cash…
The Rise of ‘Trust-Based Philanthropy’ – aka Unconditional Cash Transfers to NGOs
…like for-profit investment. Foundations helped craft projects for NGOs to deliver, pushing them to measure impact, whether counting mosquito nets or quantifying changed attitudes to women. The logical framework, or “logframe”,…
Six things INGOs need to fix to be fit for the future. Mark Goldring’s outgoing reflections
…this, we need to employ more of the thinkers, mavericks and pioneers who might be less adept at a logframe or donor report but really can work with and support…
Why are NGOs and Academics collaborating more?
…to seize opportunities, but on the negative a resistance to learning approaches that emphasise qualitative methodologies and responding to events (it really messes up your logframe). Some intriguing suggestions for…
How realtime evaluation can sharpen our work in fragile states
…to be agile, but the donors won’t wear it – they’ll make us stick to the logframe’. Not so. DFID, which funds the WWS project, has supported the RTE and…
What can NGOs/others learn from DFID’s shift to ‘adaptive development’?
…encourages flexible/adaptive programming: ‘Low ambition logframes’ can often lead to better relationships and partnerships than high ambition ones. In the latter, the moment something ‘goes red’ (i.e. targets are missed),…
So is ‘Doing Development Differently’ a movement now? And if so, where’s it going?
…designed to do both, delving into some specific issues that practitioners are grappling with. These were: Taking DDD approaches to scale through replication and diffusion; From ‘logframe’ to ‘search-frame’: iterative…
Are we suffering from obsessive measurement disorder?
…sound familiar to you? as an M&E manager, you worry that there’s a crucial aspect of your project that the current logframe doesn’t cover as a programme manager, most of…
My (current) default suggestions when asked about almost anything to do with ‘strategy’
…about how to identify, analyse and respond to critical junctures and the opportunities and threats they create. Adaptive Management, Doing Development Differently and Alternatives to the Logframe: Traditional aid projects…
What happens when 20 Middle East decision makers discuss Theories of Change?
…spending much time on systems and complexity. Wheel out the logframe and get stuck in. Iteration and Feedback: The key is not to abandon planning, but to treat all plans…