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Scaling – from “reaching many” to sustainable systems change at scale: A critical shift in mindset
Agricultural Systems, 2019 Countless development projects have piloted solutions that could make a difference if only applied at scale. The reality is that these pilot projects hardly ever reach the intended scale to contribute significantly to achieving the UN Sustainable ...
Woltering L.a +4 more
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A strategic analysis of health behaviour change initiatives in Africa
Global Health Action, 2023 Background Changed health behaviours can contribute significantly to improved health. Consequently, significant investments have been channelled towards health behaviour change initiatives in Africa.
Ebele R.I. Mogo +17 more
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Promoting Equity in Market-Driven Education Systems: Lessons from England
Education Sciences, 2022 There is a global trend towards the use of market-driven approaches as a strategy for educational reform. However, this is creating new barriers to the promotion of equity in some countries.
Kirstin Kerr, Mel Ainscow
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Sustainable collaboration on complex problems: a “who” not a “what” challenge
Frontiers in Research Metrics and Analytics, 2023 Despite decades of collective efforts and millions of dollars of cross-sector investment, collaborations created to address wicked problems—complex issues that span industries and sectors whose root causes are unclear—have had mixed success.
Josie Gibson
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Food Policy Councils and Local Governments: Creating Effective Collaboration for Food Systems Change
Journal of Agriculture, Food Systems, and Community Development, 2018 Drawing data from comparative case studies of 10 California food policy councils (FPCs), this paper describes the nature of the relationships between local governments and FPCs and examines how these relationships support policy-related activities and ...
Clare Gupta +6 more
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Ecology and Society, 2022 Conserving biodiversity with a growing human population is a key sustainability challenge. Consequently, a vast number of development initiatives across the globe have been designed to combine social, economic, and environmental perspectives.
Benjamin L. H. Jones +5 more
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Journal of human ergology, 1997 This paper is concerned with finding practical ways of incorporating human and organizational concerns during the development and use of new information technologies (IT). It is structured in four parts. First, we outline the work of the Institute of Work Psychology at the University of Sheffield. One major interest is with the human and organizational
CLEGG, Chris +3 more
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Using system dynamics mapping to explore synergy in an equity-focused obesity prevention framework
Frontiers in Public HealthIntroductionAddressing health inequities across chronic diseases is a critical public health objective, and policy, systems, and environmental (PSE) change approaches are integral to achieving this goal. However, assumptions about mechanisms of effect or
Irene E. Headen +3 more
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Imagining transformative futures: participatory foresight for food systems change
, 2018 Transformations inherently involve systems change and because of the political nature of change, are subject to contestation. A potentially effective strategy to further transformative change that builds on interdisciplinary, multiactor, and multiscale ...
A. Hebinck +4 more
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Systems change in the context of an initiative to scale up Housing First in Canada.
Journal of Community Psychology, 2018 In this study, we examine changes in the homeless-serving system in the context of a training and technical assistance initiative to scale up Housing First (HF) in 6 Canadian communities.
G. Nelson +11 more
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