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 The Independent Evaluation Group of the World Bank recently released a publication entitled “The Black Box of Governmental Learning, The Learning Spiral-A Concept to Organize Learning in Governments”. The publication aims to address the problem on how best to educate the government with lessons from the past.
Government is not known to be the best learner from past lessons and as a result, resources are wasted, services are undelivered, and most of all, the citizens, especially the poor, are denied of social, legal and economic protection. It is for this reason that the need to educate the government of these lessons has become more crucial than ever. WB identifies the reason why government seems to never ever learn, and this is said to be because learning in government settings is hard to execute and conceptualize, and hence, the term “black box”.
This book introduces a theory-based concept that has been applied successfully over the past decade in a number of conferences and events comprising civil servants and staff of government all over the world.
Download the book.
 Alas, after months of waiting and the uncertainty of it happening at all this year, a 5-day training on Results-focused Project Design and Management is finally scheduled on 31 May – 4 June in the Philippines. The training takes us down south to the island of Cebu and will be offered to executing agencies, implementing agencies and oversight agencies of the Philippine government. More on First Results-Focused Project Design and Management Training in 2010 Scheduled in June
Systemic change is an interesting metaphor. It shows how a small change can trigger a series of other small ones that eventually ends with a big bang. It is not only difficult, it is a really complex process. Where do you begin? In the end going to start. Or the other way around? How will you get into the big change? Use small and incremental (almost unrecognizable) changes first and then lead to the big ones. How do you select those small changes? Which is the smallest change that can trigger the big one? What would connect one small change to the rest? What connectors will you use? What are the triggers and receptors for those connectors? More on Visualizing Systemic Change
IAF Global Flipchart, the International Association of Facilitators’ official newsletter, has already released its very first issue for 2010 which includes:
- Member of the Month, Jon Jenkins, Groningen, The Netherlands,
- News from Professional Development
- Candidates for Editor of the Global Flipchart
The issue also shares a technique called Organization’s History, which is an activity that helps a facilitated group capture an organization’s history.
To read the issue, click here.
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The Independent Evaluation Group of the World Bank recently released a publication entitled “The Black Box of Governmental Learning, The Learning Spiral-A Concept to Organize Learning in Governments”. The publication aims to address the problem on how best to educate the government with lessons from the past.
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