CLARISSA responded to the complex challenge of child labour through a deliberate and participatory approach to adaptive management. But what does it really mean to implement such an approach in practice? And what evidence do we have of how it worked? In this webinar we will reflect on our published evaluation findings on the effectiveness of participatory adaptive management, and take you on a journey to bring to life the dynamism and complexities of working in this way.
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The field of adaptive management is gaining prominence with responding to complexity now recognised as the ‘norm’ in international development programming, and as social change initiatives seek to achieve ‘systems change’. Yet the evidence base on if and how it works remains scant. Moreover, most programmes implemented through intentional adaptive management remain problem rather than people driven, and opportunistic in their adaptiveness rather than comprehensive. The CLARISSA programme innovated with a participatory approach to adaptive management, adopting participatory action research as both its main intervention modality and its programme management approach.
The recently published evaluation of CLARISSA’s PAM approach explores how adaptive strategies were implemented and evolved throughout the programme’s life cycle. Multiple cases of adaptation and misadaptation were analysed to assess whether and how adaptive management practices were operationalised, the degree to which they led to enhanced decision-making and effectiveness, and their empowering effect on children and other programme stakeholders.
In this webinar we invite you to join a dialogue about how to move from rhetoric and promise to grappling with the real-life challenges and complexities of being people-driven and ambitious in adaptive programmes.
Speakers
- Pedro Prieto Martin, freelance consultant / Honorary Associate (IDS Digital and Technology Cluster)
- Jiniya Afroze, Head of Programmes, Terre des Hommes, Bangladesh
- Sukanta Paul, Regional Quality and Accountability Advisor, Terre des Hommes
Chair
- Marina Apgar, Research Fellow, Institute of Development Studies
How to watch
You can watch this webinar on Zoom.
