Design for development: a review of emerging methodologies

Simpson, Robert W.; Gill, Roderic

doi:10.1080/09614520701195964

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“…In the development sector, a number of commentators (Roche, 1994;Mosse, 1998;Davies, 2004Davies, , 2005Hamdi, 2004;Eyben, 2006;Simpson and Gill, 2007) have argued for a more complex understanding of how change comes about and the role of INGOs in this process, often drawing on the complexity sciences, for example, complex adaptive systems theory (Gell-Mann, 1994;Holland, 1998). Whilst appreciative of the unexpected, and more tolerant of ambiguity, paradox and power, what is common to all of these authors is the tendency to understand insights from the complexity sciences as being something which can be harnessed or accommodated within existing systemic ways of understanding development management.…”

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What contribution can insights from the complexity sciences make to the theory and practice of development management?

Mowles

Stacey

Griffin

2008

J of Intl Development

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???The definitive version is available at www3.interscience.wiley.com '. Copyright Wiley [Full text of this article is not available in the UHRA]This paper offers a critique of existing ways of understanding management practice in International Non-Government Organisations (INGOs) and compares and contrasts these with insights drawn from the complexity sciences. The authors put forward a more radical interpretation of complexity theory as it might be taken up in organisations rather than suggesting that it can be accommodated with existing theories based in systems thinking. They suggest that understanding the process of organising as contingent, paradoxical and experiential could profoundly refocus the attention of managers and practitioners alike and lead to an intensifying of practice as more consciously political. In being more open to others, including their partners and beneficiaries, staff in INGOs may be more ready to change themselves and their ideas. At the same time, the authors point out the existing dynamics of current practice and the way it perpetuates itself, no matter how problematic. Copyright#2008 JohnWiley & Sons, Ltd

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Section: Insights From the Complexity Sciencesmentioning

confidence: 98%

What contribution can insights from the complexity sciences make to the theory and practice of development management?

Mowles

Stacey

Griffin

2008

J of Intl Development

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“…In the past decade, many RCTs of innovative interventions informed by behavioral insights have been funded and fielded, generating policy-relevant evidence to inform future investments in global health programs. Finally, the “design for development” movement has expanded the global health practitioner’s toolkit with new ways to think about innovation, idea generation, user-defined needs, and user experience [13–15].…”

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A behavioral design approach to improving a Chagas disease vector control campaign in Peru

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Background Individual behavior change is a critical ingredient in efforts to improve global health. Central to the focus on behavior has been a growing understanding of how the human brain makes decisions, from motivations and mindsets to unconscious biases and cognitive shortcuts. Recent work in the field of behavioral economics and related fields has contributed to a rich menu of insights and principles that can be engineered into global health programs to increase impact and reach. However, there is little research on the process of designing and testing interventions informed by behavioral insights. Methods In a study focused on increasing household participation in a Chagas disease vector control campaign in Arequipa, Peru, we applied Datta and Mullainathan’s “behavioral design” approach to formulate and test specific interventions. In this Technical Advance article we describe the behavioral design approach in detail, including the Define, Diagnosis, Design, and Test phases. We also show how the interventions designed through the behavioral design process were adapted for a pragmatic randomized controlled field trial. Results The behavioral design framework provided a systematic methodology for defining the behavior of interest, diagnosing reasons for household reluctance or refusal to participate, designing interventions to address actionable bottlenecks, and then testing those interventions in a rigorous counterfactual context. Behavioral design offered us a broader range of strategies and approaches than are typically used in vector control campaigns. Conclusions Careful attention to how behavioral design may affect internal and external validity of evaluations and the scalability of interventions is needed going forward. We recommend behavioral design as a useful complement to other intervention design and evaluation approaches in global health programs.

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“…This requires political engagement, taking a position—a position that is always problematic—on processes of contestation and commitment to partners with whom we share the goal of social transformation (Eyben, ). This entails discovering and challenging power together while we build confidence and consistent relationships with the people we work with (Eyben, ), and we constantly redefine what we do and the sense of what we do together (Simpson and Gill, , Mowles et al ., ). All this is not aimed at more ‘effective’ planning, but at repoliticisation of all aspects of DM (Gulrajani, ).…”

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Rethinking Capacity Development for Critical Development Practice. Inquiry Into a Postgraduate Programme

Belda

Aristizábal

Peris

et al. 2012

J of Intl Development

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Our proposal focuses on a theoretical framework intended to characterise and understand capacity development processes oriented towards the promotion of a critical development practice, an approach that faces the tensions between reformist and critical views of development management. This is what we call capacity development for emancipatory social change. From this viewpoint, we explore a postgraduate university programme in development management offered by the Universidad Politécnica de Valencia (Spain), with a twofold aim: first, to carry out an inquiry of the programme as a capacity development process in the training of critical development practitioners and second, to discuss the suitability of the framework for understanding similar capacity development processes. Copyright © 2012 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

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Design for development: a review of emerging methodologies

Cited by 10 publications

References 11 publications

What contribution can insights from the complexity sciences make to the theory and practice of development management?

What contribution can insights from the complexity sciences make to the theory and practice of development management?

A behavioral design approach to improving a Chagas disease vector control campaign in Peru

Rethinking Capacity Development for Critical Development Practice. Inquiry Into a Postgraduate Programme

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