The Future of Development: ‘Make Happen’ with Portfolios of Options
“The Future of Development: ‘Make Happen’ with Portfolios of Options” presents how Portfolios of Strategic Innovation & System Transformation Options can manage complexity, resolve uncertainty and accelerate Development dynamics.
This paper was originally published by CHÔRA Foundation, March 2021.
Arising from our work with UNDP and in Development spaces, this Green Paper makes a case for bringing Portfolios of Options to Development programs and initiatives as a core feature of their intent to transform social systems. Portfolios of Options as learning, sensemaking and problem solving mechanisms are the most effective means by which human social systems can supply themselves with budgets of possibility that ensure choice, create opportunity and ‘make happen’ transformation and solutions.
Hunger, insecurity, disease, inequality, poverty, among others, are all conditions of deprivation from which it is near impossible to emerge without a breaking away on a wave of knowledge and into a space of possibility. The act of solidarity that Development must perform is to create that space and to offer that knowledge; it is to give social systems access to, and to embed in them, a capability to take decisions and design actions; this will furnish those systems with sustainable and inclusive forms to a renewed self. To make available the means by which that knowledge can be leveraged, and by which the possibility of things can be given, is the act of solidarity that Development must perform: Portfolios of Strategic Innovation and System Transformation Options in the space of Development is what we bring as our own act of solidarity.
