Taking responsibility for complexity
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Taking responsibility for complexity (section 4.2): Implications for aid agencies
Overall, there needs to be greater recognition that development is a knowledge industry, including readjusting the skills base and organisational…
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Taking responsibility for complexity (section 4.1): What are the implications for governance and public administration?
Complexity implies that the scope of ‘governance’ needs to widen considerably, and governance work also needs to expand to take…
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Taking responsibility for complexity (section 4): Conclusion
Thoughts and questions as to what the principles and priorities for tackling complexity might mean for governance and public administration…
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Taking responsibility for complexity (section 3.3.7): Facilitation and mediation
Efforts to combine different sources of knowledge must tread carefully in order to give genuine space to different perspectives.
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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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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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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…
