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Evaluating complex interventions: principles and recommendations derived from experience

This article summarizes a paper written by John Mayne, Cynthia McDougall, Rodrigo Paz-Ybarnegaray and myself recently published in the journal Evaluation. There is a growing recognition that programs that seek to change people’s lives are intervening in complex systems, which puts a particular set of requirements on program monitoring and evaluation (M&E). Developing complexity-aware M&E systems within some …

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Do systems fight back? Some lessons from agricultural research in development

Do long-established systems have an immune system that helps them resist transformational change? If so, how does it work? These are important questions for anyone trying to change their organizations. If the system is going to strike back then knowing how and when that might happen can help save your initiative from being killed off. …

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