This discussion will focus on a growing body of tools and tactics that practitioners are employing to manage what can be a tricky landscape of donor needs, organizational expectations, as well as emerging best practices of systems thinking approaches that demand effective adaptation. Expect to hear about a number of ways in which projects and clients have succeeded in fostering improved adaptive capacity, which will seed further discussion at the Symposium in April and lead to a robust set of recommendations and tools available to the industry.
The session will cover the following topics:
Adapting indicators and targets
Adapting procurements and partnerships
Adapting teams
The session will be facilitated by Liz Eckert, RTI International, and Mike Field, EcoVentures International. They will be joined by Ken Smarzik, of USAID/Haiti's Leveraging Value Chain Enhancement (LEVE) project, amongst others, to contextualize the discussion with on-the-ground insights and strategies.