Navigating Complexity in Impact Assessment: Systems Thinking and Participatory Modeling
Navigating Complexity in Impact Assessment: Systems Thinking and Participatory Modeling
Move from recognizing the need for systems thinking to applying it in IA. Gain a practical skill set and a participatory modeling method to build shared understanding of complex issues and support more effective, efficient and robust assessments.
Additional Details
What You'll Learn
How to move from recognizing complex systems to actually mapping and modeling them; how participatory modeling can create shared understanding and improve impact assessment.
Why This Matters
Many social and environmental problems persist because organizations address individual symptoms instead of the relationships between them.
Action Level - BUILD
What You'll Leave With
A practical systems-thinking skill set and participatory modeling method.
Best For - Community Leaders, Systems Designers, Educators, Businesses, Investors / Funders, Local Governments, Policymakers, NGOs / Civil Society, Technology Professionals
Languages - English
Recording / Replay Available? - Unknown
Practical Next Step - Select one complex challenge and create a stakeholder-and-system map showing causes, relationships and feedback loops.