Adaptive management involves making decisions about how to use resources based on data that are often incomplete or uncertain. Adaptive management focuses on learning from previously performed ...

Formal development of adaptive management as an approach for natural resources management can be traced back to the 1970s and to research conducted at the International Institute for Systems Analysis ...

Achieving the 2030 sustainable development agenda requires development organizations to move beyond the “one-size-fits-all” model of development and the standardized approach typical of the industrial ...

A growing body of evidence indicates that aid agencies are most successful when able to operate flexibly, particularly in fragile environments. Yet our systems and tools are often too rigid to ...

Development actors increasing agree that managing programs adaptively – especially complex interventions – can improve their effectiveness. A growing body of evidence supports this claim. But what ...

Let us delve into whether more adaptive leadership could assist organizations, the kinds of organizational cultures that support it and examples of successful organizations that employ adaptive ...

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has constructed much of the nation’s inland navigation, flood management, port and harbor, and coastal protection infrastructure. For much of the Corps’ history, the ...