Can you help shape our future priorities? Take a five minute survey now. Survey closes on 8 July.

Book

Going Against the Flow: Making Organisational Systems Part of the Solution Rather Than Part of the Problem.

Published on 1 January 2004

Organisational learning, in which leaders and managers give priority to learning as integral to practice, is increasingly recognized as critical to improved performance. ActionAid, DFID and Sida collaborated with the Participation Group at the Institute of Development Studies to explore understandings of learning and to document innovative approaches.

Learning with ActionAid centred on institutionalising a radical organization-wide approach to accountability, learning and planning. The new system prioritises accountability to poor people and partners and so revolutionizes the way the organization does business. The paper by David and Mancini documents the struggle to institutionalize the new system and the extraordinary changes that it has engendered.

These collaborations resulted from a workshop held at IDS in May 2001 on ‘Power, Procedures and Relationships’ which highlighted learning as a way to achieve consistency between personal behaviour, institutional norms and the new development agenda (IDS Policy Briefing, Issue 15). At IDS, a group was formed to pursue this subject, including Robert Chambers, Andrea Cornwall, Rosalind Eyben, Kath Pasteur Garett Pratt and Patta Scott-Villiers.

Publication details

published by
IDS
authors
David, R. and Mancini, A.
isbn
1 85864 821 1

Share

About this publication

Related content

Working Paper

Mining Legitimacy: Governing the Politics of Resource-Based Green Industrial Policy

IDS Working Paper 623

3 July 2025

Opinion

The power of communities during civic space closure in Central America

Rocío Elizabeth Ramírez Argueta, Oficial de programas y proyectos, COMCAVIS TRANS

& 3 others

24 June 2025

Opinion

El poder de las comunidades frente al cierre del espacio cívico en Centroamérica

Rocío Elizabeth Ramírez Argueta, Oficial de programas y proyectos, COMCAVIS TRANS

& 3 others

24 June 2025

Opinion

Shaping the future of AI: The role of non-binding agreements

23 June 2025

Privacy Overview

This website uses cookies so that we can provide you with the best user experience possible. Cookie information is stored in your browser and performs functions such as recognising you when you return to our website and helping our team to understand which sections of the website you find most interesting and useful.