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Development and the Learning Organisation

 

Contents (49K)

Contributors (41K)

Preface (pdf 78K)
Deborah Eade

Development and the Learning Organisation: an introduction (pdf 197 K)
Laura Roper and Jethro Pettit

Section 1:
Power, culture, and gender: challenges to organisational learning

Operationalising bottom-up learning in international NGOs: barriers and alternatives (pdf 72K)
Grant Power, Matthew Maury, and Susan Maury

Should development agencies have Official Views? (pdf 73K)
David Ellerman

Engendering organisational practice in NGOs: the case of Utthan (pdf 154K)
Sara Ahmed

Organisational learning: a borrowed toolbox? (pdf 108K)
David Kelleher and the Gender at Work Collective

Making the organisation learn: demystification and management action (pdf 160K)
Vijay Padaki

Section 2:
Learning together: multi-institutional initiatives

Achieving successful academic-practitioner research collaborations (pdf 120K)
Laura Roper

Knowledge to action: evaluation for learning in a multi-organisational global partnership (pdf 120K)
Marla J. Solomon and A. Mushtaque R. Chowdhury

Guest learning and adaptation in the field: a Navajo case study (pdf 147K)
Gelaye Debebe

Can bilateral programmes become learning organisations? Experiences from institutionalising participation in Keiyo Marakwet in Kenya (pdf 136K)
Samuel Musyoki

Section 3:
Levels of learning: organisational case studies

A chocolate-coated case for alternative international business models (pdf 149K)
Pauline Tiffen

Learning leaders: the key to learning organisations (pdf 130K)
John Hailey and Rick James

Leading learning and change from the middle: reconceptualising strategy’s purpose, content, and measures (pdf 146K)
Colin Beckwith, Kent Glenzer, and Alan Fowler

The struggle for organisational change – how the ActionAid Accountability, Learning and Planning System emerged (pdf 148K)
Patta Scott-Villiers

Heifer International: growing a learning organisation (pdf 139K)
Thomas S. Dierolf, Rienzzie Kern, Tim Ogborn, Mark Protti, and Marvin Schwartz

‘New learning in old organisations’: children’s participation in a school-based nutrition project in western Kenya (pdf 136K)
Charles Ogoye-Ndegwa, Domnic Abudho, and Jens Aagard-Hansen

Organisational learning in NGOs: an example of an intervention based on the work of Chris Argyris (pdf 138K)
Didier Bloch and Nora Borges

Section 4
Learning from humanitarian action

Mainstreaming disaster mitigation: challenges to organisational learning in NGOs (pdf 115K)
John Twigg and Diana Steiner

The learning process of the Local Capacities for Peace Project (pdf 113k)
Marshall Wallace

Humanitarian principles and organisational culture: everyday practice in Médecins Sans Frontières-Holland (pdf 117K)
Dorothea Hilhorst and Nadja Schmiemann

Perceptions and practices of monitoring and evaluation: international NGO experiences in Ethiopia (pdf 157K)
Esther Mebrahtu

Section 5:
Ways and means: tools and methods for learning and change

Learning from complexity: the International Development Research Centre’s experience with Outcome Mapping (pdf 99K)
Sarah Earl and Fred Carden

Modelling learning programmes (pdf 93K)
Molly den Heyer

Learning for change: the art of assessing the impact of advocacy work (pdf 131K)
Barry Coates and Rosalind David

Resources (pdf 190K)

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