Le guide des PMP

Le monde complexe et interconnecté d’aujourd’hui a clairement besoin de collaboration et de partenariat entre des groupes d’intérêt décloisonnés issus du milieu des affaires, des pouvoirs publics, de la société civile et du monde des sciences. Mais il n’est pas si simple d’engendrer cette collaboration. Cela nécessite de bien comprendre ce qui permet aux gens de travailler ensemble ou au contraire ce qui les en empêche. Il faut de la patience, du temps et un engagement de la part des dirigeants. Toutefois, sous réserve de l’état d’esprit qui convient et en utilisant les étapes et les outils pratiques proposés dans ce guide, on peut accomplir bien des choses pour libérer le potentiel de collaboration et d’innovation des gens au service du progrès social et environnemental. Le guide intègre des connaissances pratiques et des fondements et principes théoriques. Si des méthodes et outils pratiques de facilitation sont essentiels, il est encore plus important de pouvoir concevoir des processus autour de la dynamique qui sous-tend les systèmes humains, les apports de force, les conflits et le travail d’équipe. Nous nous inspirons de divers courants de pensée pour offrir aux facilitateurs et aux parties prenantes des partenariats une série de principes et de modèles conceptuels pour les aider à engendrer des processus de changement créatifs et critiques

Making Evaluations Matter: A Practical Guide for Evaluators

This guide is primarily for evaluators working in the international development sector. However, if you are a commissioner of an evaluation, an evaluation manager or a monitoring and evaluation (M&E) officer, you too will find it useful.Too often evaluations are shelved, with very little being done to bring about change within organisations that requested the evaluation in the first place. This guide will explain how you can make your evaluations more useful. It will help you to better understand some conceptual issues and appreciate how evaluations can contribute to changing mindsets and empowering stakeholders. On a practical level, the guide presents core guiding principles and pointers on how to design and facilitate evaluations that matter. Furthermore, it shows you how you can get your primary intended users and other key stakeholders to contribute effectively to the evaluation process

Capacities for Institutional Innovation: A Complexity Perspective

Many capacity development interventions have been driven by the needs of technological innovation rather than the needs of institutional innovation. However, this article argues that the global challenges of the twenty?first century call for institutional innovation that entails a very different dynamic of the relations within society. Changing institutions, be it related to societal norms and values, government policies, market incentives, political systems or organisational processes, requires the ‘soft’ capacities of communication, trust building, diplomacy, networking, making sense of messy social situations, political advocacy and leadership. The article concludes by outlining four specific capabilities required for institutional innovation: navigating complexity, learning collaboratively, engaging politically and being self?reflective

Institutional innovation for energy, food and water security in South Asia: the Sustainable Development Investment Portfolio (SDIP) Programme

Rising populations, rapid urbanisation, industrial expansion and economic growth are projected to significantly increase the demand for water, energy and food in South Asia over the next two decades. Energy demand alone is projected to more than double by 2040. Water availability per capita is expected to continue its long-term decline, particularly in Pakistan and parts of India where, within 20 years, it could reach crisis levels in some subregions. Arable land per capita will also continue to shrink and increases in food supply will need to come from intensified agricultural production systems and/or increased food imports. Climate change is expected to exacerbate these emerging issues of resource scarcity. Rising temperatures, changes to water resource availability – resulting from melting glaciers and changed precipitation regimes – and increases in the intensity and frequency of extreme weather events (droughts, floods and heat waves) are all projected to adversely impact on economic activity, especially in the agriculture and energy sectors. Maintaining water, energy and food security will be a significant challenge for South Asian countries. Competition for land and water resources is set to intensify, driven by increased demand from agriculture, the energy sector and industry. Emerging resource constraints may involve difficult resource allocation trade-off decisions across sectors. Balancing the competing demands will be essential to sustaining future economic growth, poverty alleviation (especially achieving Sustainable Development Goals) and in maintaining national and regional political security. The extent to which South Asian countries can effectively manage these emerging issues will largely determine the region’s future economic development trajectory. Adopting a more integrated ‘nexus’-based approach to natural resource management and development planning offers much potential for improved water, energy and food (WEF) security and enhanced climate change resilience. Australia, through the Sustainable Development Investment Portfolio (SDIP), is supporting countries to better manage these emerging WEF security constraints, through targeted aid program investments and public/economic diplomacy. This paper highlights some of the innovative approaches that have been supported through SDIP and how they are contributing to improved development outcomes in the agriculture and energy sectors in South Asia