Date: Tuesday 31st October
Time: 12:00 – 14:30
Venue: The Knowledge Exchange, TBSI
The Development Studies Association of Ireland and the Trinity International Development Initiative are pleased to host a seminar on Adaptive Programming. Development challenges are complex and interventions often do not follow a linear path.
The results of development interventions are therefore rarely predictable. In a complex environment infl uenced by history, politics, geography, confl ict, social norms and behaviours, adaptive programming offers a way of ‘doing development differently’.
This seminar, as part of TIDI’s Development Research Week presents and discusses adaptive approaches to development programming. Researchers and practitioners with experience of an adaptive approach will explore ongoing work and current debates in this area, including through case studies. What do we understand by adaptive programming and adaptive management? What is the current international discourse and how is it relevant to our work? What are the issues that have arisen within programme management and how might a system of adaptive management better respond to these challenges?
The seminar is building on the work of a newly established study group within DSAI that aims to: facilitate discussion, debate and ongoing learning among the development community in Ireland on adaptive programming; strengthen the dissemination of knowledge, research and learning on adaptive programming in Ireland; contribute to the wider international debate; and stimulate new research initiatives on adaptive programming in Ireland in order to improve development programming funded by and implemented by Irish organisations. It will be followed by a session at the DSAI Annual Conference 23-24 November, which will build on the discussion and outcomes.
Speakers: Oliver Haas, GIZ (The German government’s development agency) Craig Valters, Overseas Development Institute Gráinne Kilcullen, Christian Aid Ireland