System-wide damage to higher education in Somalia caused by conflict can only be addressed through systems thinking and collective effort.
War crashes higher education systems – countries like Somalia need a system-wide reboot Read More »
I am reading Draper Kauffman Systems one: An Introduction to Systems Thinking. Here some things I am learning. A system is “a collection of parts which interact with each other to function as a whole.” A system cannot be split into separate parts and still be useful. Similarly, you can’t add one system to another
Systems: very brief rules of thumb Read More »
Last October I was in Islamabad and was interview at the Sustainable Development Policy Institute. We discussed the changes that new digital technologies bring and will continue to bring to evidence informed policy processes and systems. Click on sdpi.tv to watch the interview.
Digital technologies and evidence informed policy systems Read More »
UNDP teams continue to publish interesting blog posts about their attempts to move to a system approach which include managing portfolio of projects or experiments.
UNDP and its systems journey Read More »
As I reread Duncan Green’s blog about an interesting conversation we had over a coffee few weeks ago in Brixton (How might a systems approach change the way aid supports the knowledge sector in Indonesia?), it occurred to me that I could add something. ‘Systems’, he writes, ‘evolve through the endless churn of variation, selection
The three components that can help system thinking in development programmes Read More »