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The Open University

Global challenges in practice: designing a development intervention

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This free short course addresses the key elements of designing a development intervention. Its approach to ‘doing development’ will be value led rather than technical. There is a wealth of material teaching a technical approach to development intervention. This course seeks to shift the balance back to a value based approach to doing development. It will be rich with the voices of the poor and advocate for a particular approach to development, namely adaptive management. The course will be open to all with the only prerequisite an interest in how to do development differently.

Syllabus

  • Week 1: What is a development intervention?
  • Week 2: Designing an intervention
  • Week 3: Introducing monitoring and evaluation
  • Week 4: Evaluating development interventions

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