A recent report from the Outcome Mapping Learning Community highlights that ‘insights from community members have shown that the underlying principles of Outcome Mapping acknowledge and resonate very well with complexity theory.” This is because Outcome Mapping explicitly recognises: that social systems are made up of large numbers of independent agents who interact in interdependent [...]
Archive for November, 2009
Latest Outcome Mapping report highlights central role of complexity sciences in improving aid planning, monitoring and evaluation
Posted in Evaluation, Knowledge and learning, Reports and Studies on November 3, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Easterly team discovers power law in international trade – what are the implications?
Posted in Economics, Public Policy, Reports and Studies, Trade on November 1, 2009 | 2 Comments »
A new study by William Easterly and colleagues at NYU may be a significant breakthrough for the use of complexity science concepts in international development. In the growing community of complexity thinkers in the aid sector, those with a qualitative mindset have been rather more prominent than those taking a quantitative approach. Published papers on complexity and aid to date [...]
