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 Issue  33 | April 2008

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  • Barry Kibel has designed and implemented evaluations for complex programmes. Here he explains journey mapping, its use in monitoring and evaluation, and how it can contribute to capacity development.
     

  • The Ceja Andina project has shown that with Outcome Mapping it is possible to engage a wide range of stakeholders in monitoring and evaluation that can satisfy the need for accountability as well as learning about the process of change.
     

  • The members of REDL, a network of development actors working in the field of decentralisation and local government in West Africa, are documenting, analysing and sharing their methods and lessons learned. Now no one has to reinvent the wheel.
     

  • There are increasing calls for new M&E approaches that encourage learning and participation. The authors explain how the managing for impact approach places M&E at the centre of learning and management processes.
     

  • PSO is an association of 45 Dutch development NGOs that are working to strengthen the capacities of civil society organisations in developing countries. In this article two learning facilitators of PSO Knowledge and Learning Centre discuss their...
     

  • Based on two pilot leadership development programmes in Mali and Niger, the authors believe that the combination of training workshops and on-the-job coaching can be effective in encouraging leaders to learn and to change.
     

  • Like other democracies in transition, Moldova needs leaders who can give a new impetus to the process of achieving a democratic and just society. Serghei Ostaf explains how CReDO’s civic leadership programme is responding to that need.
     

  • In just five years, the ICT projects launched by the TICBolivia network have benefited many marginalised communities throughout the country. This article explains how the network has effectively fed those experiences into the process of preparin...
     

  • We all agree that harmonisation is necessary. But it is often far from easy to achieve in practice. This article argues that it can be helpful to co-design flexible frameworks in order to ensure cooperation among partners with very different int...
     

  • This article considers the collective capabilities of networks in relation to their use of ICTs, information and knowledge management. ICTs can enable networks and their members to achieve their aims more effectively, and are often part of the ‘...