Implementing Adaptive Approaches in Real World Scenarios : A Nigeria Case Study, with Lessons for Theory and Practice

How does adaptive implementation work in practice? Drawing on extensive interviews and observations, this paper contrasts the ways in which an adaptive component of a major health care project was implemented in three program and three matched comp...

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Main Authors:	Bridges, Kate, Woolcock, Michael
Format:	Working Paper
Language:	English
Published:	World Bank, Washington, DC 2019
Subjects:	INSTITUTION BUILDING DEVELOPMENT EFFECTIVENESS PUBLIC SECTOR REFORM LEGITIMACY PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION
Online Access:	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/300301560883977057/Implementing-Adaptive-Approaches-in-Real-World-Scenarios-A-Nigeria-Case-Study-with-Lessons-for-Theory-and-Practice http://hdl.handle.net/10986/31907

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spelling	okr-10986-319072022-09-20T00:15:12Z Implementing Adaptive Approaches in Real World Scenarios : A Nigeria Case Study, with Lessons for Theory and Practice Bridges, Kate Woolcock, Michael INSTITUTION BUILDING DEVELOPMENT EFFECTIVENESS PUBLIC SECTOR REFORM LEGITIMACY PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION How does adaptive implementation work in practice? Drawing on extensive interviews and observations, this paper contrasts the ways in which an adaptive component of a major health care project was implemented in three program and three matched comparison states in Nigeria. The paper examines the bases on which claims and counterclaims about the effectiveness of these approaches were made by different actors, concluding that resolution requires any such claims to be grounded in a fit-for-purpose theory of change and evaluation strategy. The principles of adaptive development may be gaining broad acceptance, but a complex array of skills, expectations, political support, empirical measures, and administrative structures needs to be deftly integrated if demonstrably positive operational results are to be obtained, especially when undertaken within institutional systems, administrative logics, and political imperatives that are predisposed to serve rather different purposes. 2019-06-19T17:13:53Z 2019-06-19T17:13:53Z 2019-06 Working Paper http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/300301560883977057/Implementing-Adaptive-Approaches-in-Real-World-Scenarios-A-Nigeria-Case-Study-with-Lessons-for-Theory-and-Practice http://hdl.handle.net/10986/31907 English Policy Research Working Paper;No. 8904 CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo World Bank World Bank, Washington, DC Publications & Research Publications & Research :: Policy Research Working Paper Africa Nigeria
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description	How does adaptive implementation work in practice? Drawing on extensive interviews and observations, this paper contrasts the ways in which an adaptive component of a major health care project was implemented in three program and three matched comparison states in Nigeria. The paper examines the bases on which claims and counterclaims about the effectiveness of these approaches were made by different actors, concluding that resolution requires any such claims to be grounded in a fit-for-purpose theory of change and evaluation strategy. The principles of adaptive development may be gaining broad acceptance, but a complex array of skills, expectations, political support, empirical measures, and administrative structures needs to be deftly integrated if demonstrably positive operational results are to be obtained, especially when undertaken within institutional systems, administrative logics, and political imperatives that are predisposed to serve rather different purposes.
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author	Bridges, Kate Woolcock, Michael
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title	Implementing Adaptive Approaches in Real World Scenarios : A Nigeria Case Study, with Lessons for Theory and Practice
title_short	Implementing Adaptive Approaches in Real World Scenarios : A Nigeria Case Study, with Lessons for Theory and Practice
title_full	Implementing Adaptive Approaches in Real World Scenarios : A Nigeria Case Study, with Lessons for Theory and Practice
title_fullStr	Implementing Adaptive Approaches in Real World Scenarios : A Nigeria Case Study, with Lessons for Theory and Practice
title_full_unstemmed	Implementing Adaptive Approaches in Real World Scenarios : A Nigeria Case Study, with Lessons for Theory and Practice
title_sort	implementing adaptive approaches in real world scenarios : a nigeria case study, with lessons for theory and practice
publisher	World Bank, Washington, DC
publishDate	2019
url	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/300301560883977057/Implementing-Adaptive-Approaches-in-Real-World-Scenarios-A-Nigeria-Case-Study-with-Lessons-for-Theory-and-Practice http://hdl.handle.net/10986/31907
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Implementing Adaptive Approaches in Real World Scenarios : A Nigeria Case Study, with Lessons for Theory and Practice

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