Foresight and futures thinking for international development co‐operation: Promises and pitfalls
Fraser Reilly‐King,
Colleen Duggan,
Alex Wilner
Abstract:MotivationStrategic foresight is gaining traction for anticipating changes in a volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous (VUCA) world—one which will require different mindsets and approaches. Yet international development co‐operation practitioners have been slow to adopt foresight.PurposeWhat promises and pitfalls should development practitioners consider in order to integrate strategic foresight into their work?Methods and approachWe review the literature on strategic foresight applied to development. We … Show more
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