4B

Using Adaptive Management

A poster to send Implementing Partners which teaches both the idea of adaptive management, as well as a process for gathering feedback from frontline staff and using it to respond and adapt.

Source: Syntegral

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A tool to help the National Coordination Mechanism and Implementing Partners understand the changing realities of an activity on the ground—and how to adapt to keep up with those changes.

By quickly collecting anonymous, frontline observations, and inviting groups of frontline workers to explain trends over time, coordinators, managers, and supervisors can better make decisions and respond to issues as they arise. If all Implementing Partners practice adaptive management, scale up is likely to go more smoothly.

You should now have

  • A few (5-15) key statements to monitor and watch for trends over time
  • A system to consistently gather feedback on these statements from frontline workers
  • A means of understanding the shifting reality on the ground and adapting to it

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Poster (English, A4)

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