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		<title>State fragility as a wicked problem?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Feb 2012 09:37:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Ramalingam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Fragile states are growing in importance on the development and humanitarian  agenda. One of the most concrete outcomes of last years aid summit in Busan was the New Deal for fragile states. Most major donors are looking to increase their presence and effort in fragile states, and implementing agencies are having to work out what [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=aidontheedge.info&#038;blog=10132762&#038;post=2471&#038;subd=aidontheedge&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Global Resilience Requires Novelty &#8211; A Speech by Buzz Holling</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Oct 2011 08:15:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Ramalingam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the areas where complexity thinking has entered the mainstream of development policy and practice is in resilience thinking. Much of this work owes a debt to C.S. &#8216;Buzz&#8217; Holling, whose work on resilience of ecologies in the 1970s provided the intellectual underpinning to much recent work. Holling was recently awarded an honorary doctorate [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=aidontheedge.info&#038;blog=10132762&#038;post=2360&#038;subd=aidontheedge&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>USAID&#8217;s Complexity Journey</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Oct 2011 21:10:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Ramalingam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last week saw a remarkable meeting in Washington, bringing together USAID staff with scientists and practitioners working on complex systems. This post reflects on the event and outlines some of the emerging lessons. Background There have been a number of meetings on the topic of complexity and development in different locations around the world in [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=aidontheedge.info&#038;blog=10132762&#038;post=2345&#038;subd=aidontheedge&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Results 2.0: Towards a portfolio-based approach</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Jun 2011 12:37:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Ramalingam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The international development sector has been in a tug of war around the &#8216;results agenda&#8217; for the past few months. This post explores the tensions and suggests a way to bring the sides together by focusing on the relevance and appropriateness of different approaches.* I: The Results Tug of War Development results is one of many [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=aidontheedge.info&#038;blog=10132762&#038;post=2240&#038;subd=aidontheedge&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Success, failure and what lies between</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Jun 2011 09:49:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Ramalingam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Earlier this week Tim Harford, also known as the Undercover Economist, gave a fantastic talk at ODI on the topic of &#8216;Development as Trial and Error&#8217;. Drawing on his latest book, Adapt: Why Success Always Starts with Failure, Tim provided the audience with a compelling account of the need for a different way of thinking [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=aidontheedge.info&#038;blog=10132762&#038;post=2243&#038;subd=aidontheedge&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Reflections on a workshop &#8211; exploring &#8216;complexity sciences&#8217; in development</title>
		<link>http://aidontheedge.info/2011/06/15/reflections-on-a-workshop-exploring-complexity-sciences-in-development/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Jun 2011 09:00:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Ramalingam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Following on from the recent UK Collaborative on Development Sciences (UKCDS) workshop on complexity science and international development, I shared some thoughts on the day and the ways forward. This is a cross-post from the UKCDS website. Last month the UK Collaborative for Development Sciences held a workshop to explore the potential of complexity science for international [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=aidontheedge.info&#038;blog=10132762&#038;post=2235&#038;subd=aidontheedge&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Latest meeting on Complexity and International Development</title>
		<link>http://aidontheedge.info/2011/05/13/latest-meeting-on-complexity-and-international-development/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 May 2011 08:05:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Ramalingam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday saw a UKCDS meeting in London on complexity and international development, which I helped to convene and chaired. Speakers included Eric Beinhocker, Yasmin Merali, Melissa Leach and Danny Burns. Duncan Green of Oxfam has already provided an excellent write-up here - watch this space for the detailed meeting report and next steps.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=aidontheedge.info&#038;blog=10132762&#038;post=2180&#038;subd=aidontheedge&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Humanitarian Groundhog Day</title>
		<link>http://aidontheedge.info/2011/03/24/the-humanitarian-groundhog-day/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Mar 2011 15:05:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Ramalingam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Humanitarian coordination has been described in a new ODI paper as a &#8216;wicked problem&#8217; which demands new and radical solutions. This post explores the  longstanding incentive issues underlying the lack of effective coordination and suggests possible ways forward. In a paper published last year,  Michael Barnett and I argued that the humanitarian system was stuck in much the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=aidontheedge.info&#038;blog=10132762&#038;post=1879&#038;subd=aidontheedge&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Pushing back against linearity</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Sep 2010 08:52:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Ramalingam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Big Push Back was convened last week  by the Participation and Social Change team at IDS. With over 70 attendees, the theme of the day was to reflect on and develop strategies for &#8217;pushing back&#8217; against the increasingly dominant bureacratisation of the development agenda. As the meeting background note put it: Development NGOs and researchers are [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=aidontheedge.info&#038;blog=10132762&#038;post=1172&#038;subd=aidontheedge&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Towards the Twig-Frame: Update on Complex Adaptive System Conference in Arusha 31st Sept – 3rd September</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Sep 2010 06:47:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Ramalingam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Two weeks ago we blogged about a fascinating event taking place in Arusha, convened by World Vision, which aimed to explore how complex adaptive systems thinking can be used to transform approaches to rural development. Below is a round-up of the event. Special thanks are due to Miriam Booy of World Vision for  both synthesising the material [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=aidontheedge.info&#038;blog=10132762&#038;post=1156&#038;subd=aidontheedge&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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