Complexity Aware Monitoring (CAM)  

This collection includes resources, links and videos on the topic of CAM, mostly from USAID publications. It also includes subfolders for each of the five approaches that USAID considers for implementing CAM.

When performance monitoring stops working

Other | English | Performance Monitoring

This article illustrates how complexity-aware monitoring approaches overcome the three blind spots of performance monitoring.

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Issued on 2014.
Uploaded about 7 years ago
Last updated about 7 years ago

What are the implications opportunities for development practice video 3

Other | English | Performance Monitoring

his is Part 3 of a three part series of video lectures conducted by USAID on complexity. This lecture features Richard Tyson who focuses on the implications and opportunities for development practi...

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Issued on 2011.
Uploaded about 7 years ago
Last updated about 7 years ago

What is a complex system and how is it different Video 1

Other | English | Performance Monitoring

This video presentation from Chris Wood, Michael Quinn Patton and Ben Ramalingam for USAID looks at complex systems and how they are different from the norm. The presentation begins by focusing on ...

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Issued on 2011.
Uploaded about 7 years ago
Last updated about 7 years ago

Systemic monitoring Attending to Interrelationships perspectives and Bo...

Other | English | Performance Monitoring

Attending to interrelationships, multiple perspectives, and boundaries is one of three key principles underlying complexity-aware monitoring. This principle emphasizes the importance of using syste...

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Issued on 2014.
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Synchronizing Monitoring with the Pace of Change in Complexity

Other | English | Performance Monitoring

Synchronizing monitoring with the pace of change is one of three key principles underlying complexity-aware monitoring.This principle emphasizes the importance of attending to the time dimension of...

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Issued on 2014.
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Six simple questions worksheet for CAM (Complexity Aware Monitoring)

Other | English | Performance Monitoring

Six Simple Questions to Identify Your Complexity-Aware Monitoring Need

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Complexity aware informed theory of change

PDF | English | Performance Monitoring

The "complexity aware" theory of change approach can help managers develop appropriate strategies for interventions and focus their attention

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Issued on 2016.
Uploaded about 7 years ago
Last updated about 7 years ago

Learning LAB CAM ( Complexity Aware Monitoring) page

Other | English | Performance Monitoring

USAID’s Complexity-Aware M&E Team is championing five approaches to complexity-aware monitoring, which the Team is supporting through trials. The resources to your right are authored by industry le...

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How do these conceptions of complexity help us think and act video2

Other | English | Performance Monitoring

This is Part 2 of a three part series of video lectures conducted by USAID on complexity. This lecture focus on the question 'How do these conceptions of complexity help us think and act?' The lect...

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Issued on 2011.
Uploaded about 7 years ago
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Discussion Paper Innovations in Monitoring and Evaluation

Other | English | Civil society  Development program and activity evaluation  Performance Monitoring

Countries are increasingly taking innovative approaches to monitor and evaluate the performance of public policies, programs
and service delivery. There are a number of reasons why this is happeni...

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Issued on 2013.
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ADS 201 CAM discussion note reference

Other | English | Guidelines and Procedures  Policy Documents  Performance Monitoring

COMPLEXITY-AWARE MONITORING

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Issued on 2016.
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Stakeholder feedback Learning Lab screencast

Other | English | Performance Monitoring

Stakeholders feedback

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Issued on 2013.
Uploaded about 7 years ago
Last updated about 7 years ago

Briefing on USAID’s Discussion Note CAM

PDF | English | Performance Monitoring

Briefing on USAID’s Discussion Note

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Process Monitoring Impacts

Other | English | Performance Monitoring

Keeping Track in Complicated and Complex Situations

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Issued on 2013.
Uploaded about 7 years ago
Last updated about 7 years ago

Process Monitoring for impacts structural funds

Other | English | Performance Monitoring

A new approach to monitor the implementation of Structural Fund Programmes

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Issued on 2005.
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Last updated about 7 years ago

Interact Study Process Monitoring of Impacts

Other | English | Performance Monitoring

Proposal for a new approach to monitor the implementationof ‘Territorial Cooperation’ programmes

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Issued on 2006.
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Last updated about 7 years ago

Results from a Meta-analysis of Sentinel Indicators in USAID-funded Pr...

PDF | English | Performance Monitoring

Sentinel Indicators which are Systems-Based Approach to Monitoring and Evaluation

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Issued on 2015.
Uploaded about 7 years ago
Last updated about 7 years ago

Outcome Mapping Master- class

Other | English | Development program and activity evaluation  Performance Monitoring

Outcome Harvesting: a tool for identifying and understanding results in complex circumstances

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Issued on 2013.
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Retrospective outcome harvesting

Other | English | Development program and activity evaluation  Performance Monitoring

Generating robust insights about a global voluntary environmental network

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Issued on 2013.
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Outcome Harvesting Brief_Nov 2013

Other | English | Development program and activity evaluation  Performance Monitoring

Outcome Harvesting is a method that enables evaluators, grant makers, and managers to identify, formulate, verify, and make sense of outcomes. The method was inspired by the definition of outcome a...

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Issued on 2013.
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Outcome Mapping Learning Community

Other | English | Development program and activity evaluation  Performance Monitoring

Outcome Harvesting is a utilization-focused, highly participatory tool that enables evaluators , grant makers, and managers to identify, formulate, verify, and make sense of outcomes they have infl...

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Issued on 2012.
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Outcome Harvesting for OM Lab

Other | English | Development program and activity evaluation  Performance Monitoring

Introduce you to the principles of Outcome Harvesting as a monitoring and evaluation tool for Outcome Mapping.

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Issued on 2012.
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Last updated about 7 years ago

Learning Lab Outcome Harvesting

Other | English | Development program and activity evaluation  Performance Monitoring

Outcome Harvesting is one of five complexity-aware monitoring approaches promoted by USAID’s Complexity-Aware M&E Team. Outcome Harvesting works backwards to identify, describe and verify contribu...

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Issued on 2013.
Uploaded about 7 years ago
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Better Evaluation Outcome Harvesting

Other | English | Development program and activity evaluation  Assessment  Performance Monitoring

Outcome Harvesting has proven to be especially useful in complex situations when it is not possible to define concretely most of what an intervention aims to achieve, or even, what specific actions...

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Issued on 2013.
Uploaded about 7 years ago
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MSC-(Most Significant change) manual

Other | English | Manual  Technical Document  Performance Monitoring

A manual for monitorying and evaluation (ME) staff and others at Equal Access

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Issued on 2011.
Uploaded about 7 years ago
Last updated about 7 years ago

MSC-(Most Significant change) quick start guide

Other | English | Guidelines and Procedures  Performance Monitoring

A self-help guide for implementing the Most Significant Change technique (MSC- Most significant change)

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Issued on 2003.
Uploaded about 7 years ago
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MSC-(Most Significant change) Health in 4 countries

Other | English | Health research  Performance Monitoring

Using most significant change methodology to evaluate impact of a health innovation in Four Countries

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Issued on 2013.
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The Most Significant Change(MSC) guide

Other | English | Agricultural research  Educational development  Health care ...more

This publication is aimed at organisations, community groups, students and academics who wish to use MSC to help monitor and evaluate their social change programs and projects, or to learn more abo...

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Issued on 2005.
Uploaded about 7 years ago
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Better Evaluation MSC- Most Significant Change

Other | English | Performance Monitoring

The Most Significant Change (MSC) approach involves generating and analyzing personal accounts of change and deciding which of these accounts is the most significant – and why.

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