Policies Management for Participatory Planning

Effective policy management is crucial in participatory and integrated planning processes, ensuring that the strategic frameworks guiding development projects align with both local regulations and broader goals. This involves not only understanding and navigating existing policy landscapes but also actively shaping and adapting policies to support the participatory approach. By fostering collaboration between institutions, stakeholders, […]

Assessment Stage of a Participatory Workshop

Any good workshop starts with one simple question: is the workshop needed and would it be beneficial? The “Enabling Inclusive Cities” toolkit developed by the Asian Development Bank (ADB) provides an invaluable framework to explore the needs of specific populations or regions through two basic pillars: policy and planning, and a sectoral assessment on the […]

The Three-Horizon Theory

The Three Horizons Model is a strategic framework that aids organizations in managing the present while preparing for future opportunities and challenges. Originally developed by Mehrdad Baghai, Stephen Coley, and David White in their book The Alchemy of Growth (1999), the theory provides a structured approach to balancing short-term goals with long-term innovation and emphasizes […]

Endogenous vs. Exogenous Thinking in Organisational Improvisation

The theory of Organizational Improvisation focuses on responsive processes and how understanding them provides an alternative to the idea of an opposition between “strong” (endogenous) and “weak” (exogenous) ways of thinking about processes in human action. This dichotomy originally related to how actions are initiated and controlled and stemmed from cognitive psychology and neuroscience: Strong […]