This simple tool is designed to be printed and used by a workshop facilitator, to help participants in a group map/assess the quality of transformative outcomes and constraints across a variety of case studies.
TIPC has identified 12 transformative outcomes across three transformation macro processes. However, a key issue is assessing the quality of the outcomes and the associated constraints in achieving transformative outcomes (irrespective of quality).
The tool can be used as a learning aid to review case studies. It can also be used to assess transformative outcomes in actual policy experiments. For an examples, see Case study analysis through the lens of transformative outcomes.
Acknowledgements
Editing by Paloma Bernal Hernandez and Victoria Shaw, and design by Naz Costante.
Facilitators Instructions
This tool is designed to be used by a facilitator to help a small group of participants in a workshop critically reflect on a case study (such as a TIPC policy experiment as part of an engagement process) or actual policy experiment.
Cases should be pre-selected on the basis of the criteria that:
1) they are about a socio-technical system change and
2) they narrate the dynamics of the change processes.
TIPC has previously used this tool to engage with the following cases from Africa, Latin America and Asia:
- Informal settlements in Nairobi
- Wetlands in Bogota. Networking
- Mobility in Kolkata
To engage fully with the exercise, it will help if participants have a prior understanding of the transformative outcomes.
Reflections on TIPC use
An earlier version of this tool was used for to create a exercise at a workshop on Transformative Innovation Policy in the Global South on 17 June 2020, working with the following cases from Africa, Latin America and Asia:
- Informal settlements in Nairobi
- Wetlands in Bogota
- Mobility in Kolkata
For more information on the case studies and learnings, see Case study analysis through the lens of transformative outcomes.
This tool was introduced and tested (very briefly) at a meeting of the network of coaches for the Lab in Nov 2022. Comments on the process included:
– That the tool provides an interesting opportunity to relate transformative outcomes to a case
– It might help users for the instructions / score sheet to be adapted to the case
– In most groups, the focus was less on the score itself, but around the issues that the process of using the tool throws up – in a discussion about shielding, for example, the tool helped to prompt interesting conversations around how shielding can add value and facilitate emerging leadership, and the flexible finance and decentralisation of control needed to shield experiments successfully