Facilitating Multi Stakeholder Processes and Social Learning - 2010

Herman Brouwer/ Karèn Verhoosel

Centre for Development Innovation

Institutional analysis

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Process Model for MSP interventions

Initiating phase: Situational and context analysis

Collaborative Action

Adaptive PlanningInitiating

Reflective Monitoring

Institutions

Understood as the ‘rules of the game’ that make ordered social life possible.

Examples of institutions: Language Currency Marriage Religion

Education system Laws Policies

Institutions

By definition, institutions are the more stable and permanent aspects of human systems.

Many institutions have evolved without much conscious design, and they interrelate with each other in a complex network.

Our lives are embedded in this highly complex web of social institutions, and we take many of them for granted, often not questioning their origin or the underlying assumptions and beliefs on which they are based.

Difference Organisations - Institutions

Organisations: structures that have been created to

implement institutions such as laws, regulations, religion, markets etc.

Institutions: the rules, organisations and social norms that

facilitate human and organisational action.

Institutions

Group work

Institutional analysis: The group work is facilitated by one

participant At the end the other provide feedback on the

facilitation

Institutional analysis

What are the key institutions influencing (positive or negative) your MSP? Values, norms; laws, policies; organisations,

structures, networks; services, citizens demands, actions etc.

Make an institutional map using 4 aspects of institutions (meaning, control, association, action)

Meaning – Control – Association – Action

Implications for MSPs

What are the key constraining institutions for our MSP? How can we change them, reduce them?

What are the key supportive institutions? How can we build on them? Strengthen them?

What is the scope of our MSP, which institutions can we influence, which can’t we?

What other stakeholders do we need to bring on board to make the MSP work in light of this institutional context?

Thank you!

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