This blog provides a summary of an experiment funded by a TIPC member, the Department for Science, Technology and Innovation in South Africa. It describes how the Living Catchments Project was used to test Transformative Innovation Policy (TIP) approaches to water governance. For original material from the collaboration, browse all Living Catchments project resources. Water … from Overview: Rethinking collaborative water governance in South Africa
This tool was developed for the ‘Living Catchments’ experimental policy engagement, to facilitate the definition of indicators and support reflection on the transformative potential of the project’s theory of change. Practitioners from the South African National Biodiversity Institute and TIPC researchers worked together over several months to add a transformative layer to the project. They … from Tool: Definition of indicators to monitor evaluation of transformative outcomes
This report provides an overview of the process and analysis of the learning associated with the TIP Experimental Policy engagement in TIPC member country, South Africa. … from Project Report for TIP Experimental Policy Engagements: Living Catchments, South Africa
These slides provide a snapshot of the process of implementing the Living Catchments experiment, addressing the context, actions, aim, stakeholders and set up, reflections and perspectives of practitioners. It illustrates the importance of an experimental mindset to managing an experiment – one that takes interventions as provisional – and how the experience helped the team … from Implementing the Living Catchments experiment
This resource gives a detailed snapshot of the South Africa project chosen as a TIP Experimental Policy Engagement. … from The Living Catchments Project: Information sheet
This blog/news piece gives a topline introduction to the South African TIP experiment involving the country’s Water Research Council and the SANBI, the South Africa National Biodiversity Institute. The project was identified and  selected by TIPC member, the South Africa Department for Science & Technology to integrate the TIP methodology into this Living Catchments Water … from Introduction to the TIP EPE: Ecological water and sanitation experiment in South Africa
In this short video extract, Mahlodi Tau, former Director for Biodiversity Mainstreaming at the South Africa National Biodiversity Institute (SANBI), answers questions from researchers and practitioners on the Living Catchments experimental policy engagement, which involved the application of Transformative Innovation Policy principles to water security and governance challenges in water catchment areas. … from Questions on the Transformative Theory of Change in the Living Catchments Project
Video on the process of building a Theory of Change for the Living Catchments project, explaining the main change pathways and transformative outcomes, presented by the South Africa Water Research Council’s Shanna Nienaber, lead practitioner for the experimental policy engagement. … from Video introducing the theory of change for the Living Catchments project
The graphical representation of the Living catchments Theory of Change in South Africa explains the connections between impacts for SDG 6, activities, outputs and transformative outcomes. … from Graphic representation of the Living Catchments Transformative Theory of Change
