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Strategy Testing: An Innovative Approach to Monitoring Highly Flexible Aid Programs
Submitted by lguinee on Fri, 10/23/2015 - 08:57
The attached new Asia Foundation paper describes an exciting new monitoring system developed by The Asia Foundation called Strategy Testing (ST). "ST was developed to track programs that are addressing complex development problems through a highly iterative, adaptive ‘searching’ approach. Traditional monitoring methods are designed to track progress in linear, largely pre-planned projects where the result and the path to achieving it are known from the outset. Such methods are poorly suited to contexts where specific results emerge over time in the course of implementation, and where there is a need to track shifts in program strategy and action. ST is designed to fill this gap. The paper provides a detailed description of the ST approach and the tools developed to facilitate the process.