On the Salience Podcast today, we are exploring feedback and feedforward in the complex space of international development. Joining us in this episode is Milica Begovic, the Head of Strategic Innovation at the United Nations Development Program

Millie and her colleagues are pioneering new ways of doing development that build countries’ capacity to deliver change at scale. She has been involved in a number of bold initiatives such as the Accelerator Labs (which recently grew to 90 countries globally).  And this on top of a number of ongoing activities at the corporate and the regional level. 

Today we will be learning more about what strategic innovation means, and the feedback and feedforward loops, as well as innovative monitoring, evaluation and learning approaches and critical competencies that are important for organisations who want to adopt this bold approach to social innovation and change that matters.

We learn from UNDP’s decade-long journey of strategic innovation that has been tested and scaled across 51 countries, whilst prioritising local impact, and transforming the organisation to create the right conditions to support beneficial impact for all partners involved.

UNDP Strategic Innovation Medium site

https://medium.com/@undp.innovation

Books mentioned in this podcast

Innovation in real places

https://global.oup.com/academic/product/innovation-in-real-places-9780197508114

Seeing like a State

https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300078152/seeing-like-a-state/

The Uncertainty Mindset

https://uncertaintymindset.org/

Organisations who inspired UNDP’s journey

https://www.climate-kic.org/

https://marianamazzucato.com/

https://www.ucl.ac.uk/bartlett/public-purpose/ucl-institute-innovation-and-public-purpose

http://www.corafoundation.org/

https://ddc.dk/

https://www.agirrecenter.eus/way/

https://rodingenoff.com/

https://www.vinnova.se/

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