Adaptive Management for Addressing WASH services in Yemen

As part of a strategic approach, CARE promotes continuous learning and adaptive management practice across projects/programs in all operational areas in Yemen. Following this effort, CARE’s experience in Yemen and our commitment to learning in emergency contexts pointed toward the need for an adaptive approach to programming. Lessons learned from previous assessments, evaluations, and institutional memory; as well as core commitments to humanitarian accountability and high program quality highlighted the need to intentionally collaborate, learn, and adapt, especially in contexts of constant change and needs.
   
The adaptive management practice employed by the H2O project in Yemen has had a significant impact at organizational and developmental level.  At the organizational level, adaptive management improved senior leadership buy-in towards this process which ultimately had an impact on the organization’s learning culture. Looking at the results from the approach and seeing the impact will only strengthen the team’s capacities and increase its usage across the program portfolio. Whereas related to the development impacts, adaptive management improved safe programming, delivery of effective and quality assistance, strengthened local water governance, increased accountability, improved learning culture, whilst innovations and testing new ideas have also been promoted.