Adaptive Management: Responding to the evolving needs of PRIME’s complex systems

Pages
5pp
Date published
01 Jan 2015
Type
Research, reports and studies
Keywords
Livelihoods, Organisational Learning and Change
Organisations
Mercy Corps, USAID Bureau for Humanitarian Assistance (BHA)

Mercy Corps decided to follow the principles of adaptive management to ensure that activities are responsive to the evolving needs of the complex systems it seeks to strengthen.

Adaptive management has been defined as “a structured, iterative process of robust decision making in the face of uncertainty, with an aim to reducing uncertainty over time via system monitoring…a tool which should be used not only to change a system, but also to learn about the system."