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Moving Beyond Projects: Portfolios and Systems MEL Authors: Suzane Muhereza & Zazie Tolmer Contributor: Simone Uriartt & Bianca Tejada

Systems MEL is a continuous rhythm of reflection, sense-making, and adaptation that enables portfolios to learn and adjust in real time medium.com/@undp.innova...

“Instant House” Offers Security and Comfort to Disaster Evacuees | The Government of Japan - JapanGov - The innovative “Instant House” allows those in evacuation sites or disaster struck areas the comfort and security of a rapidly deployable home.

Had to find a link that worked www.japan.go.jp/kizuna/2025/...

Systemic Change: An Evolving Practice with 45+ Guides…So What? Over the past decade, systemic change has evolved from a buzzword to a practice. In philanthropy, government, development, non-profits, and…

Systemic change: an evolving practice with 45+ guides…so what? medium.com/@emilyfrance...

Systemic Investing For Agrifood System Transformation This was originally written as an introductory presentation for a panel on “Systemic investing in agrifood systems — Responding to complex…

"So let me check in: raise your hand if you listened to this definition of systemic investing and thought “that sounds great, but unrealistic”? medium.com/inanna-globa...

White paper #003: Emergent standards: Enabling collaborations across institutions – TIAL Instead of designing top-down systems, institutions should create conditions in which small groups can build minimal, working standards that others can adopt.

"Successful standards evolve from small, functioning systems rather than grand designs. They remain lightweight and adaptable. Their creators are practitioners who understand real constraints" tial.org/publications...

Supporting practical integration of systems thinking in monitoring, evaluation and learning 360systemsguide.com

Scaling Digital Infrastructure in a Siloed State Authored by Hannah White and David Eaves

[We need more of this] Who would pay for a cross-cutting service in a government structured around departmental silos? Lessons in the politics of digital transformation www.ucl.ac.uk/bartlett/pub...

Systems Change: insights and reflections for development practitioners policy-practice.oxfam.org/resources/sy...

15 case studies that highlight women-led innovations and inclusive approaches,within agricultural systems across Africa aaspace.org/items/15e5e6...

Measuring Innovation: Why Learning is the Real Engine of Innovation Funds | Caribou Redefining impact measurement in innovation—treating learning as the real engine that drives adaptive funds and ecosystem impact.

"For innovation portfolios to succeed—for founders, investors, and users—the innovation ecosystem needs measurement systems that treat learning as a central outcome" caribou.global/publications...

Harnessing AI to positively disrupt policymaking Lessons learned from our user research

"What if there was an AI-powered tool that allowed policymakers to rapidly identify the most effective policies to tackle any given social challenge, based on the latest evidence available from academic and grey literature?" www.nesta.org.uk/project-upda...

The Renca Innovation Factory: A model of public innovation for sustainable development - Centre for Public Impact Renca, Santiago, gains global recognition for empowering marginalised communities through sustainable development, led by La Fábrica de Renca.

The Renca Innovation Factory: a model of public innovation for sustainable development centreforpublicimpact.org/resource-hub...

Systemic investing for social change: a starter kit papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

Grassroots agricultural innovation in Africa This collection looks at the dataset of grassroots innovation (also called "solutions") mapped by the Accelerator Labs on the African continent and related to food and agriculture. Its goal is to prov...

Mapping grassroots agricultural innovation in Africa sdg-innovation-commons.org/next-practic...

Enough of the billionaires and their big tech. ‘Frugal tech’ will build us all a better world | Eleanor Drage Titans like Musk would love us to believe innovation means top-down solutions that only enrich the wealthy. In fact, we all have the power, says Eleanor Drage, research fellow at Cambridge University

When farmer Chris Conder dug her own fibreoptic cables on her property in Lancashire, she set out “to prove that ordinary people could do it … it wasn’t rocket science” www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Open Source Nest A beginner-friendly open source initiative promoting inclusion, collaboration, and digital empowerment through learning and advocacy.

"Open Source Nest is an initiative to localise open source and make it more relatable and accessible to Africans" opensourcenest.org

A framework for EO-based National Agricultural Monitoring (EO-NAM) for the African Context - npj Sustainable Agriculture Effective agriculture monitoring is vital for food security and achieving UN Sustainable Development Goal 2: Zero Hunger. Earth-observations (EO) offer unparalleled potential for scalable data, yet ma...

A framework for satellite-based national agricultural monitoring for the African context www.nature.com/articles/s44...

About MijiBora MijiBora is a collaborative platform supporting African cities to unlock bold, people-centered digital solutions for urban transformation.

MijiBora is a collaborative platform supporting African cities to unlock bold, people-centered digital solutions for urban transformation mijibora.africa

“Collaboration is the new currency”

Behavioural theory and regional development: nurturing cultures of possibility This paper explores how regions can catalyse behavioural change and nurture cultures of possibility. ‘Possibility’ refers to emergent patterns of human behaviour resulting in alternative and improv...

[Interesting framing] The role played by a culture of possibility for regional development www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Learning Towards Zero: A Context for Learning about Systems Innovation Picture a world where homelessness is not something that is ‘managed’ but where we actively strive to reduce, prevent and ultimately move…

A systems map is less a tool that helps us understand a system, & more a process that can help people name their assumptions, get out of their comfort zones, & enable teams to get out of their silos. The process is more valuable than the product innovators-thegoodshift.medium.com/learning-tow...

Casual loop diagram of tree planting in Freetown

Tree planting for Climate Resilience in Freetown, Sierra Leone - Nature-Based Infrastructure Global Resource Centre Rapid population growth and urban expansion is resulting in the loss of half a million trees each year in Freetown, Sierra Leone.

Really interesting report on Freetown the Treetown campaign: "for every USD 1 invested in this project, the societal return is USD 2.94" nbi.iisd.org/report/tree-...

Here’s to 2025.

We can do this.

Proud artist smiling in front of a wall of paintings at an art gallery

Woman in pink performing in front of a packed audience in an art gallery

Woman with a bag walking into an art gallery with paintings displayed in the window

Woman looking at an amazing work of art on the wall

Two South London galleries on the same day, both showing one of my pieces of art 🎨🙌🏼 SouthwarkPark gallery closing party and IsolationArt in Surrey Quays thanks to all

United Nations Sustainable Development Goals lapel badge.

As part of their efforts to m̴a̴k̴e̴ ̴m̴o̴n̴e̴y̴…sorry…expose the truth, Y̴o̴u̴t̴u̴b̴e̴ ̴g̴r̴i̴f̴t̴e̴r̴s̴…sorry…freedom fighters have begun focusing on this strange symbol worn by the likes of Bill Gates and, err, me.

What could it mean, and why is it actually pretty cool?

This big 🧵is for you...👇