complexity
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Systems & complexity
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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Systems & complexity
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…
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Systems & complexity
Taking responsibility for complexity (section 3.2.5): Creating short, cost-effective feedback loops
Putting monitoring information in the hands of those who stand to benefit from the intervention ensures feedback loops are short…
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Systems & complexity
Taking responsibility for complexity (section 3.2.4): Implementation as an evolutionary learning process
As well as taking advantage of opportunities for learning that arise naturally, learning through intervention can be done in an…
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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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Systems & complexity
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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Systems & complexity
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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Brain power
Identifying the “right” interventions in the wicked complexity of the COVID-19 pandemic
COVID-19 is a wicked problem as its complexity transcends health, environment, social, and economic boundaries. Causal loop diagrams can assist…
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Systems & complexity
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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Systems & complexity
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…