Institute of Development Studies, Lessons for Change in Policy and Organisations no. 8
Published:
2004
Going against the Flow
Making Organizational Systems Part of the Solution rather than Part of the Problem
This paper looks at the origins of the Accountability, Learning and Planning System (ALPS), a revolutionary approach to managing the learning and relationships introduced by ActionAid, an international NGO. Starting with the origins of ALPS in the late 1990s, the paper describes the false starts and the factors that mobilised change.
