Thank you to Adam Kremeia for sharing with me this Guardian Long Read about the failing food systems in the UK and for pointing me to the experience from Northern Karelia in Finland. The article is titled We need to break the junk food cycle’: how… Read More
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‘Make it Happen’ in Development: Sensemaking and Portfolios of Options in the Governance Space. In conversation with Emilia Lischke
The design and implementation of development initiatives in support of policy and governance reforms often contends with systems of interlinked problems and non-linear and unpredictable change processes (Harry Jones 2011).
A shift in perception: exploring ways to work with complexity in international development
I really enjoyed to go back this week to this paper from 2016 by ODI’s Anne Buffardi: When Theory Meets Reality. I went back to Anne’s paper because I am doing some work on defining some principle the can help design and set up monitoring,… Read More
From Cold Data to Warm Data
Warm Data are contextual and relational information about complex systems.In other words, warm data involve transcontextual information about the interrelationships that integrate a complex system, as well as interwoven complex systems.Warm Data Lab I wrote to a colleague yesterday. During a meeting he had asked about… Read More
Solving problems versus changing systems
Problems emerge from systems interacting with each other. Solving problems requires changing systems.