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Systems & complexity
Taking responsibility for complexity (section 3.2.3): Stimulating autonomous learning
In complex problems, improved links between knowledge and policy come from enhanced personal links between knowledge producers and users, in…
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Taking responsibility for complexity (section 3.2.2): Iterative impact-oriented monitoring
Instead of asking whether an intervention is doing the right thing, or is being done in the right way, it…
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Taking responsibility for complexity (section 3.2.1): Appropriate planning
It is crucial to ensure that levels of uncertainty and ambiguity are accepted as a de facto part of the…
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Taking responsibility for complexity (section 3.2): When? Building adaptive and emergent responses
In complex problems, a greater burden of the generation and use of knowledge for implementation needs to be shifted to…
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Taking responsibility for complexity (section 3.1.8): Incremental intervention
Capacity building should not be carried out as part of a ‘deficit-based’ or blueprint-based approach. Rather, it should be approached…
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Taking responsibility for complexity (section 3.1.7): Leadership and facilitation
In the face of complex problems leadership must rely more on facilitation and empowerment, promoting ownership and catalysing self-organisation.
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Taking responsibility for complexity (section 3.1.6): Supporting networked governance
Governance by network involves agencies working with a variety of institutions, engaging service providers and other organisations, and collaborating with…
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Taking responsibility for complexity (section 3.1.4): Building adaptive capacity
Adaptive capacity is the property of a system to adjust its characteristics or behaviour, in order to expand its coping…
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Taking responsibility for complexity (section 3.1.3): Convening and boundary management
One priority for intervention is to facilitate processes that build trust and collaboration between key actors.