"This note aims to support DT Global staff and partners to: understand DT Global's adaptive management framework; assess if and what level of adaptive management is required for a program; the difference between adaptive management and good program management; and initial steps to apply adaptive management principles and practice. Adaptive management is a response to rising critiques since the early 2000s to traditional pre-determined development programming, arguing that too often simple solutions have been applied unsuccessfully to complex problems. DT Global considers adaptive management in practice as four essential elements operating together: flexibility, responsiveness, purposive learning and an empowering culture." (Page 1)