Urban Shelter Lessons Learned from Bagdad (2013)
Compilation of lessons from NRC’s urban programmes in Baghdad using methods including the web of institutionalisation and emphasising: early questions about whether an organisation will really add anything useful; modest ambition; curiosity about the place; and thoughtful questioning.
Client
Our Task
Task:
Compilation of lessons from NRC’s urban programmes in Baghdad using methods including the web of institutionalisation and emphasising: early questions about whether an organisation will really add anything useful; modest ambition; curiosity about the place; and thoughtful questioning. Written by Fiona Kelling and Laura Heykoop, edited by Kate Crawford.
Key Lessons:
Success resulted from a complicated combination of factors:
- joining forces with people who knew people,
- changing direction when things didn’t work and
- good luck and good timing.
Skills Involved
Skills
- Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning