Development and the Learning Organisation: Essays from Development in Practice

by Pettit,Jethro

• ISBN13: 9780855984700
• ISBN10: 0855984708
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 2003-03-01
• Publisher: Oxfam Pubns

Summary

As development NGOs and aid agencies embrace the idea of "becoming learning organizations," they are increasingly concerned with knowledge generation and organizational learning. In this volume, development scholars and practitioners introduce new approaches and models, illustrating individual and group learning practices across cultures and organizational efforts to put theory into practice.

Table of Contents

Contributors	x
Preface	xv
Deborah Eade
Development and the Learning Organisation: an introduction	1	(21)
Laura Roper and Jethro Pettit
Section I: Power, culture, and gender: challenges to organisational learning
Operationalising bottom-up learning in international NGOs: barriers and alternatives	22	(18)
Grant Power, Matthew Maury, and Susan Maury
Should development agencies have Official Views?	40	(18)
David Ellerman
Engendering organisational practice in NGOs: the case of Utthan	58	(18)
Sara Ahmed
Organisational learning: a borrowed toolbox?	76	(13)
David Kelleher and the Gender at Work Collective
Making the organisation learn: demystification and management action	89	(21)
Vijay Padaki
Section 2: Learning together: multi-institutional initiatives
Achieving successful academic-practitioner research collaborations	110	(11)
Laura Roper
Knowledge to action: evaluation for learning in a multi-organisational global partnership	121	(11)
Marla J. Solomon and A. Mushtaque R. Chowdhury
Guest learning and adaptation in the field: a Navajo case study	132	(20)
Gelaye Debebe
Can bilateral programmes become learning organisations? Experiences from institutionalising participation in Keiyo Marakwet in Kenya	152	(17)
Samuel Musyoki
Section 3: Levels of learning: organisational case studies
A chocolate-coated case for alternative international business models	169	(21)
Pauline Tiffen
Learning leaders: the key to learning organisations	190	(15)
John Hailey and Rick James
Leading learning and change from the middle: reconceptualising strategy's purpose, content, and measures	205	(20)
Colin Beckwith, Kent Glenzer, and Alan Fowler
The struggle for organisational change-how the ActionAid Accountability, Learning and Planning system emerged	225	(17)
Patta Scott-Villiers
Heifer International: growing a learning organisation	242	(19)
Thomas S. Dierolf, Rienzzie Kern, Tim Ogborn, Mark Protti, and Marvin Schwartz
'New learning in old organisations': children's participation in a school-based nutrition project in western Kenya	261	(16)
Charles Ogoye-Ndegwa, Domnic Abudho, and Jens Aagard-Hansen
Organisational learning in NGOs: an example of an intervention based on the work of Chris Argyris	277	(17)
Didier Bloch and Nora Borges
Section 4: Learning from humanitarian action
Mainstreaming disaster mitigation: challenges to organisational learning in NGOs	294	(9)
John Twigg and Diana Steiner
The learning process of the Local Capacities for Peace Project	303	(13)
Marshall Wallace
Humanitarian principles and organisational culture: everyday practice in Médecins sans Frontières-Holland	316	(16)
Dorothea Hilhorst and Nadja Schmiemann
Section 5: Ways and means: tools and methods for learning and change
Perceptions and practices of monitoring and evaluation: international NGO experiences in Ethiopia	332	(24)
Esther Mebrahtu
Learning from complexity: the International Development Research Centre's experience with Outcome Mapping	356	(10)
Sarah Earl and Fred Carden
Modelling learning programmes	366	(7)
Molly den Heyer
Learning for change: the art of assessing the impact of advocacy work	373	(15)
Barry Coates and Rosalind David
Resources	388	(24)
Leading experts in the field	388	(3)
Books	391	(12)
Journals	403	(2)
Organisations, networks, and websites	405	(5)
Addresses of publishers	410	(2)
Index	412