What do we do?
The Innovation & Change programme lies at the heart of the Centre for Development Innovation’s mandate. We enable people and organisations to be strategic in the face of complexity. We do this by helping to create the understanding and skills needed to work together, innovate, deal with differences, and bring about positive change. Innovation & Change is our core expertise and is embedded in all our programmes.
We facilitate innovation
Bringing about positive social change requires strategic and creative approaches. We facilitate innovation, broker knowledge and develop capacities with a focus on food systems, rural development, agri-business and the management of natural resources. Our work links Wageningen UR’s knowledge and expertise with processes of society-wide learning and innovation.
We devise learning strategies
The social, political and institutional changes needed to overcome poverty, inequalities and to protect the environment lag far behind mankind’s technological progress. New strategies for learning and governance are critical; strategies that enable a greater understanding of the complexity and conflicts around fundamental economic, political and cultural changes in society.
We address issues of complexity and change
Communities, networks and different organisations need strategies to cope with complexity, uncertainty and rapid change as they strive to create an equitable and sustainable future. Reinforcing and developing capacities on governance issues in areas of conflicting interests are increasingly becoming the core of our portfolio. Dealing with power differences is another core focus.
Our cross-cutting theme
The Innovation & Change theme underpins and crosscuts all our work by providing participatory and learning oriented approaches for facilitating innovation, understanding institutions and enabling social change.
Projects
Support Programme for Institutional and Capacity Development read
Global Consultation on Palm Oil Strategy read
Making markets work for smallholder producers in Niger read |
Publications
Chain-Wide Learning for Inclusive Agrifood Market Development: A guide to multi-stakeholder processes (9Mb) read
Facilitating MSPs – a sustainable way of changing power relations? read
The dynamics of change: Dealing with power – the key to successful multi-stakeholder processes? read
Participants’ Kit: Harmonisation, Decentralisation and Local Governance. read
Evaluation Revisited: Improving the Quality of Evaluative Practice by Embracing Complexity. read
Realist Evaluation: an overview. Report from an Expert Seminar with Dr. Gill Westhorp read
Strengthening Managing for Impact in Eastern and Southern Africa. read
Managing for Impact: A Comprehensive and People Oriented Approach to Results Based Management. read
Critical success factors in capacity development support. An exploration in the context of international development. read
Promouvoir la Bonne Gouvernance des Entités Territoriales Décentralisés et Provinciales Atelier d’écriture des expériences phares dans les provinces du Sud Kivu et Orientale. read
Harmonisation, Decentralisation and Local Governance: Enhancing Aid Effectiveness. read
Support to capacity development: An exploration of the lessons learnt in projects of the DGIS-Wageningen UR Partnership Programme ‘Globalization and Sustainable Development’. read
Making Sense of Capacity Development: Discussion paper for the seminar on International Capacity Building – Recipes for Success read
Social Learning and Networking: How multiple actors can learn through joint analysis, dialogue and co-creation. read
Science and Policy Interfaces In Multi-Stakeholder processes : Exploring how Multi-Stakeholder Processes use Science for Policy Development and Innovation within the Life Sciences read
Innovation Dialogue Being strategic in the face of complexity, Conference report read
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