System and portfolio approaches toolkit
System and Portfolios Landscape
Portfolios in Action
UNDP teams with their partners in over 50 countries are designing portfolios to tackle emerging policy domains (as opposed to sector specific challenges) that range from urban transformation & social contract to just and circular transitions to gender justice.
Networks & organisations that inspire us
This is our effort to maintain one degree of separation from those who are breaking new grounds – from rethinking how development is financed and reconfiguring power relationships, to creating new institutions and leveraging digital technologies for shaping new markets & ushering new norms. Check out some of these conversations that inspire and change the way we think about systems & deep transitions.
MEL* Sandbox (*Monitoring, Evaluation & Learning)
How do we keep a finger on the pulse of intermediate changes & emerging risks and opportunities en route to pursuing long term structural transformations? Our MEL Sandbox is exploring ways for public & development sector to work with emergence, investing in concrete demonstration work in the field & evolving understanding about how change is changing with over 180 partners around the world.
System Change: A Guidebook for Adopting Portfolio Approaches
This guidebook is designed to help a broad range of development practitioners prepare for, engage in, and manage systems transformation by using a portfolio approach in complex development spaces.
We developed this guidebook as a way to formalise our process and learnings to date, and leverage them to support others as they initially contemplate — and eventually work towards – the implementation of a portfolio-based approach for addressing complex development challenges in their own context.
It captures the on-the-ground applied learning from a United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) sponsored project, conducted throughout Asia-Pacific from October 2019 to September 2021.
READ MORESensemaking Protocol Process
Based on first-hand experience from running Sensemaking workshops for UNDP offices and government partners, the Asia-Pacific Regional Innovation Centre developed the Sensemaking Preparation Guide and Facilitator Guide to share its knowledge with teams and organisations that are interested in using the Sensemaking process.
The Preparation Guide helps teams decide if they should run a Sensemaking workshop, and how to prepare for it. It contains handy checklists, definitions, event formats and templates that you can use to run your own Sensemaking sessions.
The Facilitator Guide walks teams through the process of running a Sensemaking workshop. It contains detailed guidance on each step of the workshop: the agenda, how to run and guide participants through exercises, useful tools, etc.
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