Pathways of change for achieving sustainability results: A tool to facilitate adaptive programming

Bandali, Sarah; Style, Sarah; Thiam, Lamine; Omar, Omar Ahmed; Sabino, Alice; Hukin, Eleanor

doi:10.1080/17441692.2020.1868016

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“…Under the program, rapid and applied political economy analysis and the Pathways of Change tool 18 have been cornerstones of implementation. Pathways for Change is an innovative adaptive programming tool designed for use under a payment by results contract.…”

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“…17 Health systems require contextually appropriate and politically informed approaches, with dynamic and adaptive learning critical to addressing the needs of the entirety of the population and ensuring high-quality programming. 17 Under the program, rapid and applied political economy analysis and the Pathways of Change tool 18 have been cornerstones of implementation. Pathways for Change is an innovative adaptive programming tool designed for use under a payment by results contract.…”

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“…Although there is ample literature on AP approaches, Bandali et al (2022) identified a gap in the availability of practical programming tools which implementers could tailor to their own programmes.…”

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“…Addressing this gap, the Pathways of Change (POC) tool provides a technical framework based on evidence that is broad enough to allow teams from various geographies to adapt their approaches to maximise flexibility while remaining in line with the overall programme objectives (Bandali et al, 2022). A menu of milestones, with broad annual indicators to measure progress, can be chosen or adapted according to what suits its programme, by each team (Bandali et al, 2022).…”

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“…By identifying the primary issues that need to be resolved and the best course of action to bring about change by taking the political and economic environment into account, the PoC tool supports an adaptive programming approach with the technology making it easier to adjust pathways based on experimentation, monitoring, quick evidence collection and feedback from various teams (Bandali et al, 2022). For example, an unexpected change in government priorities need not thwart a donor programme when a milestone can be changed or adapted accordingly using POC.…”

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Lessons from Adaptive Programming

Khan¹

2022

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The aim of adaptive programming (AP) is to produce adaptive, flexible, iterative, responsive, problem-driven, politically smart, locally led programmes which are effective and efficient and meet donor requirements for accountability. This is a rapid desk review of recent literature on AP including academic and grey sources. Section 2 covers the main challenges and barriers to successful implementation of AP. Key success factors are covered in Section 3. Selecting the appropriate monitoring and evaluation tools such as outcome harvesting or adapted versions of Value for Money to assist in measuring outcomes and embedding learning is key to successful AP, particularly in governance programmes, where results are usually long-term, non-linear and causality can be difficult to specifically trace back to the donor-funded intervention. Section 4 details three case studies from the governance arena as this report was requested to assist in designing adaptive governance programmes. Thus, the State Accountability and Voice Initiative (SAVI) from Nigeria, Chakua Hatua from Tanzania, and Within and Without the State (WWS) from conflict regions are included to show how flexible indicators, donor communication and negotiation, empowering teams and adopting monitoring and evaluation tools assisted in successful AP outcomes in different locations and political contexts. The challenges faced and drawbacks of certain processes were fed into efficient feedback loops fostering cross-communication, adaptation, and modification to ensure procedures and policies were changed accordingly. Sources used are primarily from the previous 5 years, as per K4D norms, unless the work is seminal, such as the ODI Report (2016) Doing Development Differently, which encouraged over 60 countries to sign up for the AP methodology. This review found a substantive body of literature on AP methodology the relative recency of academic attention on AP in the development less evidence is available on case studies of AP in the development sector, as there are not many ongoing projects and even fewer have been completed and results assessed (ICF, 2019). There is also a lack of case studies on how dynamic, empowered, innovative teams successfully apply adaptive programming ideas, particularly providing behavioural insights about such teams (Cooke, 2017) as well as little attention to precipitating and sustaining behaviour change in institutions over the longer term (Power, 2017).

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Pathways of change for achieving sustainability results: A tool to facilitate adaptive programming

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Considerations for Program Managers to Improve Sexual and Reproductive Health Services for Displaced Populations

Considerations for Program Managers to Improve Sexual and Reproductive Health Services for Displaced Populations

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