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Measurement and Complexity: Why, How, and For Whom Do We Measure? United Nations Development Programme’s Innovation Unit UNDP has set up a monitoring and evaluation sandbox to nurture and learn from new ways of doing monitoring and evaluation that are coherent … Continue reading →

HUD’s 21 Categories of Risk Federal News Network (interview with Elliott Johnson, Jr.) The Department of Housing and Urban Development’s Chief Risk Officer has created a Front-End Risk Assessment tool that has 21 different categories from compliance to systems to reputational and … Continue reading →

Denver’s Participatory Budgeting Initiative RouteFifty After months of offering ideas and refining proposals, Denver residents now have a direct say in how the city will spend $2 million in infrastructure funds. . . Earlier this week, voting opened for Denver’s first … Continue reading →

The Five A’s of Agile Government Performance Federalism.us Agile governments don’t just ask, analyze, answer, apply, and adjust within individual organizational units. They also continually communicate insights to target audiences, especially those working in the field and implementation partners eager … Continue reading →

Project Performance Reporting in New South Wales [Australia] Local Government International Journal of Public Administration (Austin Morris, et al) – Gated access This research highlights the inconsistencies in the way local government project performance is being reported and presents one measure … Continue reading →