Systems & complexity
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Taking responsibility for complexity (section 3.3.6): Sense making for common ground
It is a high priority to ensure that framing and conceptualising a problem is an inclusive, communicative process.
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Taking responsibility for complexity (section 3.3.5): Broadening dialogues
Implementation should look to build and work with critical voices, rather than avoiding them.
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The importance of knowing how: A pluralistic and integrated approach to action-oriented knowledge for sustainability
A new paper introduces a systematic approach that clarifies how knowledge emerges from and simultaneously supports processes of action and…
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Taking responsibility for complexity (section 3.3.4): Peer-to-peer learning
Both formal and informal linkages between actors can provide effective channels for two-way flows of knowledge and communication between individuals…
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Where did Victoria go so wrong with contact tracing and have they fixed it?
In a pandemic, community engagement and local knowledge are vital to ring-fencing a cluster.
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Taking responsibility for complexity (section 3.3.3): Realistic foresight
Forward thinking is often preferable to crisis management, and can help make an organisation or programme more nimble when the…
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Taking responsibility for complexity (section 3.3.2): Focusing on how change happens
A 'theory of change' is an essential tool for enhancing decision-making and improving projects in an iterative way, and also…
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Taking responsibility for complexity (section 3.3.1): Decisions from deliberation
In the face of complexity, ‘deliberation’ should be a central process guiding decision-making, by mobilising and combining various perspectives and…
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Taking responsibility for complexity (section 3.3): How? A toolkit for negotiated learning
This section outlines mechanisms for linking knowledge and action in policy implementation.
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Taking responsibility for complexity (section 3.2.6): Accountability for learning
Policies need to place explicit value on knowledge and learning as an outcome of activities, with this learning channelled directly…