Incubating Development Impact
Source: Nesta
Source: Nesta
1. Research and analysis- Micro-narratives
- Ethnography- Big data: smoke signals
- Evidence mapping- Horizon scanning- Market intelligence- Systems mapping- Service safaris
2. Ideation and fostering creative thinking
- Crowdsourcing- Challenges- Design tools
- Creativity methods- Open innovation
3. Experiment- Rapid prototyping
- Service and process design- User-design- Co-design
- Behavioural insights- Light-touch evaluation
- Randomised Control Trials- Cost-benefit modelling
4. Business case development- Market sizing and validation
- Business case analysis- Independent replication of
evaluation
5. Replication of impact- Policy design
- Programme design- Business modelling
- Organisational design
6. Scale-up- Organisational growth
- Spreading ideas- Transferring practice
- Legislation- Licensing
- Franchising
7. Systemic impact- Changing behaviour
- Changing laws and regulations- Calibrating markets
- Understanding interaction of technologies
Source: Nesta
Source: Nesta
Ideas Prototype Alpha Beta
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Challenges Experiments Small Real-World Evaluations
Theory of change
Correlation
Causation
Graduation
GovernmentEnterprise
NGOUNDP Project
Before and after
EvidenceWho
• 3 staff• few phone calls?
• Staff• Universities• Private sector• Local Partners• Start ups • Individuals• Int. networks
Where
• Office
• Field• Local
partners
When How
Solution identified ex ante
Solution identified ex post
• 1 solution pre-identified
• Internal process
• Top-down
• Linear
• Portfolio approach
• Number of hypothesis tested concurrently
• Co-design
• Open, public process
• Continuous improvement
• Secondary research
• No precedents• No feedback
loops
• Gained through experimentation
• Precedents• Continuous
feedback loops
ANNEX
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