Journal: Policy Brief

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ETH Zurich, Center for Development and Cooperation

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2021 - 20222
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  • Past and future of Project Cycle Management (PCM)
    Item type: Report
    Schneider, Kimon (2022)
    Policy Brief
    Development projects have to be managed professionally, but decades of experience has highlighted the challenges of project cycle management (PCM). Development organizations have increasingly searched for alternatives to one of the PCM standards, the logframe. The plethora of PCM instruments has overwhelmed many development practitioners. This brief questions the trend of alternative approaches to PCM, including the logframe. It argues that the crux of good PCM lies in how the instruments are used, rather than the instruments themselves. Focus should not be on further multiplying instruments, but investing more in transferable skills of practitioners such as thinking in an interdisciplinary way and acting adaptively, enabling them to use any instruments in a given context.
  • How can development organizations improve their use of evidence?
    Item type: Report
    Schneider, Kimon (2021)
    Policy Brief
    Development organizations are under pressure to learn from and use the growing body of evidence in order to deliver aid that works. Many have started fostering an evidence-orientation in their strategies, policies and operational practices. However, these commendable efforts often underestimate the institutional challenges organizations face when trying to integrate evidence into their daily business. To address these challenges, organization leadership should take full responsibility for strengthening knowledge management. A set of institutional measures, including applying evidence principles during project selection and approval, hiring cross-culturally trained knowledge translators and setting up a management approach connecting evidence mobilizers and policy-makers, can facilitate evidence use in decision-making.
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