Resources
rssDynamics of Rural Innovation - a primer for emerging professionals
Authors: Pyburn, R. & Woodhill, J. (eds.)
Publication date: 2014
Dynamics of Rural Innovation – a primer for emerging professionals is a co-publication of KIT and Wageningen University’s Centre for Development Innovation (CDI) that brings together the experiences of over 40 conceptual thinkers and development practitioners to articulate lessons on agricultural innovation processes and social learning.
Inclusion, Resilience, Change: ADB’s Strategy 2020 at Mid-Term
Author: Asian Development Bank
Publication date: 2014
The midterm review of Strategy 2020 provides the Asian Development Bank (ADB) a precious opportunity to draw on its vast experience over the first 5 years of the strategy's implementation.
The Inquiry Based Approach (IBA) - a facilitator's handbook
Authors: Westin, M., Calderon, C. & Hellquist, A. (eds.)
Publication date: 2014
The Inquiry Based Approach (IBA) has been developed to facilitate multi-stakeholder collaboration for the transformation of situations which are contested, uncertain and complex; known as “wicked situations”. Drawing on learning theory and the action research tradition, the IBA revolves around an inquiry, a question that enables collaboration among various stakeholders.
This handbook can be used as course material in training for facilitators or as a standalone guide for designing and facilitating collaboration.
Bridging and Bonding: Improving the Links Between Transparency and Accountability Actors
Authors: Wanjiku Kelbert, A.
Publication date: 2014
The first Learning and Inspiration Event hosted by Making All Voices Count brought together people with different kinds of expertise to think collaboratively about how technology can be used to enhance citizen engagement and improve government responsiveness.
Gender justice and climate justice: community-based strategies to increase women’s political agency in watershed management in times of climate change
Authors: Figueiredo, P. & ; Perkins, P.E.
Publication date: 2011
This paper discusses South-North initiatives and models for community-based environmental and climate change education which are using the democratic opening provided by watershed-based governance structures to broaden grassroots participation, especially of women, in political processes.
Dialogic Approaches to Global Challenges: Moving from “Dialogue Fatigue” to Dialogic Change Processes
Authors: Pruitt, B. & Waddell, S.
Publication date: 2005
This working paper of the Generative Dialogue Project looks at dialogic change processes, which involve people coming together seeking to make positive change through conversation and agreement as an answer to the challenges of globalization.
It zooms in on the case of climate change, followed by an analysis of global change initiatives. It concludes that this new model of organizing will not supplant the existing international system but it is an essential complement to it.
Women’s participation in green growth – a potential fully realised?
Author: von Hagen, M. & Willems, J.
Publication date: 2012
This study analyses opportunities and challenges for women’s participation in green growth in developing countries. The purpose of the study is threefold:
- to shed more light on the gender dimension of green growth, especially in the context of private sector development and thus fill a knowledge gap in the green growth discourse
- to validate women’s contributions to green growth and sustainable private sector development
- to promote women’s empowerment and gender equality
Capacity, complexity and consulting: lessons from managing capacity development projects
Author: Datta, A., Shaxson, L. & Pellini, A.
Publication date: 2012
In the past few years, the ODI’s Research and Policy in Development Programme has increasingly collaborated with or managed large multiyear projects where it has been responsible for helping local institutions and organisations to build their capacity to use knowledge to improve policies and practices.
Setting aside the issue of knowledge-to-policy links, this paper serves to 1) reflect on what capacity is and how it develops; 2) identify implications of this for approaches used to promote capacity improvement processes; and 3) assess what this means for funding
practices.
Dynamic systems and the challenge of sustainability
Author: Scoones, I. et alii. (for STEPS Centre)
Publication date: 2007
Dynamism, uncertainty and complexity dominate today’s world. Yet many policy interventions ignore this, and so often fail. What is missing is a rigorous and systematic approach to addressing dynamics, one that encompasses an understanding of complex system dynamics and provides a useable guide to action. This paper is a first attempt by the STEPS Centre to address this challenge.
A Guide to Multistakeholder Work: Lessons from the Water Dialogues
Author: Coulby, H.
Publication date: 2009
This guide summarises the tools and methods used and the lessons learned from The Water Dialogues – a project that brings together a wide range of stakeholders to address a highly controversial issue around the privatisation of water supply and sanitation services with the aim of improving policy and practice.
Although its contents are rooted in the experience of The Water Dialogues project, the guide should be useful to anyone who is planning to develop their own form of multistakeholder work.
