Adaptive management

The Safe Programming booklet outlines the safe programming approach, which exists to prevent harm in our work as Oxfam, centring the needs of communities and partners to be safe to participate. The simple risk assessment (Safe Programming Risk Assessment) is a suggested tool to complete the mandatory process of identifying and acknowledging risks in every […]

This companion guide complements Oxfam’s Framework for Resilient Development, The Future is a Choice. It provides practical guidance on how to design and implement resilience-sensitive monitoring, evaluation, accountability and learning (MEAL) systems in interventions that aim to strengthen resilience. The guide focuses on how to assess progress on enhancing resilience capacities and resilient development. It provides practitioners […]

Adaptive management is at the heart of ‘Doing Development Differently’. It emerges from stakeholders’ calls for development programmes to be more flexible and responsive to their contexts. Whether it becomes a mainstreamed practice depends on how much it is embraced by donors and implementers alike, especially in funding, design, monitoring, evaluation, and learning cycles. This […]