Welcome to new thinking in governance and beyond, by Frauke de Weijer

Welcome, to the Governance Practitioners Notebook! Incredibly, this group of scholars, with their diverse backgrounds, interpretations, language, and ways of making sense of the challenges of improving governance are arguing for the same thing. Problem-driven, with the problem locally defined. Iterative and adaptive, with flexibility and learning built into programme design. With less reliance on technical solutions, and more eye for the political nature of all change processes. With more humility and less ego. This is the new school of thought that is emerging, currently still under the banner of ‘Alternative Ideas and Approaches’, but moving fast into the mainstream. I am thrilled.

Bringing us back to the larger questions; why do we need a revised model for assessing fragility and what would it need to look like?, by Frauke de Weijer

In an earlier blog I wrote about my discomfort around the indicators used in the proposed new model for assessing fragility. In hindsight I feel that this was the easy way out, as these are much easier to comment on than the larger questions surrounding this report. Now that a series of consultations are planned, I would like to take us back to these bigger questions. Do we need a revised model for assessing fragility, and what would it need to look like?