The world of international development is fantastic at planning solutions to the challenges we face. Roadmaps, work plans, impact frameworks, and models exist in abundance. Development professionals spend many hours—and considerable money—building, announcing, promoting, and implementing these planning frameworks.
And yet, underlying challenges of unproductive behaviors, stakeholder resistance, or overmatched capacities persist year after year, program after program. What’s going on here?
This session will explore the difference between the execution work needed to solve technical problems and the learning work required to achieve deeper systems change.
In this workshop, you will:
Get in touch with the pressure present in your system to fix and problem-solve – and how that can produce unproductive responses to complex challenges
Gain new insights into your system change challenges by distinguishing between routine, technical challenges and complex, adaptive challenges that require learning
Meet like-minded practitioners in the international development space
This workshop is best suited for:
Executives and managers who have been tasked with implementing programs that depend on political work to shift stakeholders’ perspectives or behaviors
Development Agency and organizational leaders who sense that pathways to greater scale or deeper impact require engaging complex systems
Donors who support organizations or initiatives working to achieve systemic change
This workshop is offered by Dalberg and KONU.
All workshop times are in Eastern Time.