Assessment Resource
| ID | INDIGO-ARES-0100 |
|---|---|
| Assessment Resource - Status | PUBLIC |
| Assessment Resource - Name | Oxfam Systems Thinking Introduction |
| Assessment Resource - Who? - Public Sector | NO |
| Assessment Resource - Who? - Private Sector | NO |
| Assessment Resource - Who? - Third Sector | YES |
| Assessment Resource - Output Format - Agnostic | NO |
| Assessment Resource - Output Format - Monetary Valuation | NO |
| Assessment Resource - Output Format - Non-monetary quant index | NO |
| Assessment Resource - Output Format - Ordinal | NO |
| Assessment Resource - Output Format - Qualitative only | YES |
| Assessment Resource - Output Format - Quant but no index | NO |
| Assessment Resource - Time frame? - Ongoing | YES |
| Assessment Resource - Time frame? - Prospective | YES |
| Assessment Resource - Time frame? - Retrospective | YES |
| Assessment Resource - Scale? - Agnostic | NO |
| Assessment Resource - Scale? - Micro | NO |
| Assessment Resource - Scale? - Meso | NO |
| Assessment Resource - Scale? - Macro | YES |
| Assessment Resource - Impact Goal - Agnostic | YES |
| Assessment Resource - Impact Goal - Defence | YES |
| Assessment Resource - Impact Goal - Democracy | YES |
| Assessment Resource - Impact Goal - Development/ Poverty Reduction | YES |
| Assessment Resource - Impact Goal - Education | YES |
| Assessment Resource - Impact Goal - Employment/ Financial well-being | YES |
| Assessment Resource - Impact Goal - Health | YES |
| Assessment Resource - Impact Goal - Housing | YES |
| Assessment Resource - Impact Goal - Local rejuvenation | YES |
| Assessment Resource - Impact Goal - SDG oriented | YES |
| Assessment Resource - Impact Goal - Social impact | YES |
| Assessment Resource - Impact Goal - Sustainability/ Eco | YES |
| Assessment Resource - Impact Goal - Well-being | YES |
| Assessment Resource - Type - Case Study | NO |
| Assessment Resource - Type - Classification | NO |
| Assessment Resource - Type - Consultancy | NO |
| Assessment Resource - Type - Framework | NO |
| Assessment Resource - Type - Guide | YES |
| Assessment Resource - Type - Dataset | NO |
| Assessment Resource - Type - Principles | NO |
| Assessment Resource - Type - Reporting Standards | NO |
| Assessment Resource - Type - Resource Repository or Summary | NO |
| Assessment Resource - Type - Tool | NO |
| Assessment Resource - Type - Training Programme | NO |
| Assessment Resource - Sourcing? - Agnostic | NO |
| Assessment Resource - Sourcing? - Outsource to Vendor | NO |
| Assessment Resource - Sourcing? - Paid tool | NO |
| Assessment Resource - Sourcing? - Proprietary in-house | NO |
| Assessment Resource - Sourcing? - Self-driven | YES |
| Assessment Resource - Method? - Attribution | NO |
| Assessment Resource - Method? - Diff-in-Diff statistical analysis | NO |
| Assessment Resource - Method? - Ex-ante projections | NO |
| Assessment Resource - Method? - Focus Groups | NO |
| Assessment Resource - Method? - Framework agnostic | NO |
| Assessment Resource - Method? - Interviews | NO |
| Assessment Resource - Method? - Mission Alignment | YES |
| Assessment Resource - Method? - Observation | YES |
| Assessment Resource - Method? - Operational Data | NO |
| Assessment Resource - Method? - RCTs | NO |
| Assessment Resource - Method? - Surveys | NO |
| Assessment Resource - Method? - Theory of Change | YES |
| Assessment Resource - Method? - Before and After | NO |
| Assessment Resource - Used in sectors? - Charity | YES |
| Assessment Resource - Used in sectors? - CSR | NO |
| Assessment Resource - Used in sectors? - Development | YES |
| Assessment Resource - Used in sectors? - Governance/ Policy | NO |
| Assessment Resource - Used in sectors? - Green Book | NO |
| Assessment Resource - Used in sectors? - Healthcare | NO |
| Assessment Resource - Used in sectors? - Housing | NO |
| Assessment Resource - Used in sectors? - IGOs | NO |
| Assessment Resource - Used in sectors? - Impact investing | NO |
| Assessment Resource - Used in sectors? - Microfinance | NO |
| Assessment Resource - Used in sectors? - SIBs | NO |
| Assessment Resource - Used in sectors? - Social Enterprises | NO |
| Assessment Resource - Used in sectors? - Sustainability/ Eco | NO |
| Assessment Resource - Used in sectors? - Developed Countries | NO |
| Assessment Resource - Used in sectors? - Developing Countries | NO |
| Assessment Resource - Internal / External? - Internal | YES |
| Assessment Resource - Internal / External? - External | NO |
| Assessment Resource - Leader | OxFam |
| Assessment Resource - Purpose | This report introduces systems thinking for Oxfam staff and other development practitioners. It explains how a systems approach can be integrated within programmes and ways of working and provides tools and links to a range of useful resources for further learning. In doing so it builds on the experience and thought leadership on systems thinking that Oxfam and other organizations have already shown. |
| Assessment Resource - Content | The adoption of systems thinking in practice requires a number of behaviours and practices that together provide the means to operate effectively within complex systems such as the ones we deal with. They include: a shift away from fixed, long-term planning to more iterative and adaptive planning based on learning and experimention; a focus on multistakeholder approaches and co-creation with local stakeholders; the search for context-specific solutions rather than generic ones based on good practice elswhere; a recognition that our paradigms and pre concieved ideas often limit our abilty to understand local contexts; and increased work across organizational boundaries, reducing differences in power, bringing in different ideas and perspectives and resulting in a deeper, less biased understanding of the systems we engage in. |
| Assessment Resource - Link | https://policy-practice.oxfam.org.uk/publications/systems-thinking-an-introduction-for-oxfam-programme-staff-579896 |