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Knowledge to action: evaluation for learning in a multi-organisational global partnership

01/08/2002

9 pages long

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Many organisations do not learn. There are many reasons for this, and a lack of donor support tends to be cited as one of the greatest. But this is not the primary reason for a lack of learning. We fail to learn because we are unable to see the importance of doing so. We become […]

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The learning process of the Local Capacities for Peace Project

01/08/2002

10 pages long

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If aid is found to support a war effort, should aid agencies and practitioners continue to give it? The resounding answer given by aid workers all over the world is that the needs of suffering people are too important to ignore and, further, that there can be no justification for not assisting suffering people. But […]

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Should development agencies have Official Views?

01/08/2002

13 pages long

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The major development agencies have ex cathedra ‘Official Views’ (with varying degrees of explicitness) on the complex and controversial questions of development. At the same time, knowledge is now more than ever recognised as key to development–in the idea of a ‘knowledge bank’ or knowledge-based development assistance. The author argues that these two practices are […]

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Learning leaders: the key to learning organisations

01/08/2002

11 pages long

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Learning and knowledge management are crucial capacities for many NGOs. This article attempts to answer such questions as: why is learning seen as so important for NGOs? How do successful NGOs actually learn? And what role do key individuals or leaders play in this process? The article draws heavily on the findings of a study […]

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Achieving successful academic-practitioner research collaborations

01/08/2002

8 pages long

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The potential for academic-NGO collaboration is enormous, but such collaboration is far more difficult than it appears on the surface, even when collaborators share a commitment to, and values that support, a particular cause or issue. This paper looks at some of the factors that derail academic-practitioner collaboration. It then identifies five different models of […]

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A chocolate-coated case for alternative international business models

01/08/2002

15 pages long

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Large companies have accelerated their control of the basic commodities markets in the last decade. The author describes what this means for smallholder farmers in the developing world who depend on these markets for some cash income each year. The consequences of the growing power of distributors (the grocery or supermarket chains) and dominant brand-owners […]

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Leading learning and change from the middle: reconceptualising strategy’s purpose, content, and measures

01/08/2002

15 pages long

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When implementing a transformational global vision and mission, three problems typically confront international NGOs: aligning different levels of planning and strategy; balancing global analysis and priorities against local realities; and identifying measures that both indicate progress and promote and encourage innovation. This article reports on the efforts of CARE International’s Latin America Regional Management Unit […]

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Modelling learning programmes

01/08/2002

5 pages long

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This brief paper describes one attempt to update the programme logic models to incorporate organisational learning. It begins with a brief review of learning concepts, describes the traditional Logical Framework Analysis, and concludes with a sketch of an alternative programme model, entitled the Temporal Logic Model. This article is hosted by our co-publisher Taylor & […]

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Heifer International: growing a learning organisation

01/08/2002

13 pages long

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Heifer International (HI) has been applying participatory approaches to rural development for nearly 60 years. Organisationally, HI focuses on building the capacity of its country programmes and NGO partners to work independently toward a unifying mission. An open structure allows HI to validate and incorporate the rich and diverse experience of its project holders and […]

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Making the organisation learn: demystification and management action

01/08/2002

17 pages long

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The learning organisation (LO) is both a concept and a particular methodology within the larger domain of organisational development (OD). To fully appreciate the premises of LO, it is necessary to fall back on the main premises of OD, beginning with the view of the organisation as an open system. Many of the established concepts […]

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