To assess the need for adaptation of any solution you propose to use, you will need to compare its specifications against those you have developed in your design criteria. You need to assess how well the solution fits at a more granular level...
Positive Deviance (PD) is a method that helps to identify ‘edge cases’ – people in the crisis-affected community who are tackling a problem in an unusual way. According to Positive Deviance.org, “the Positive Deviance approach is based on...
If you cannot find solutions that closely meet you design criteria, and you’re struggling in your search for ideas, the activities in this module will help you identify potential collaborators.
This activity will help you find partner organisations with the right mix of capabilities, experience and skills, as well as aligned incentives and a shared clarity of purpose.
The activities in this module will help you design a robust research agenda and facilitate a process of continuous learning and discovery, generating evidence to inform decision making.
This Guide is based on three organising principles that should inform your innovation journey.
This activity involves carrying out desk reviews, interviews and focus group discussions, and direct observations to answer the questions you have identified in the previous activity.
This activity will help you to identify and prioritise your outstanding questions – your known unknowns – and the best way to rapidly gather reliable information on each of them.
This field-based activity will help you to generate, capture and describe first-hand observations about existing services or experiences from the perspective of the user (front end) or service provider (back end).
The activities in this module will guide in quickly gathering and categorising information about the problem you have identified, in order to expand and deepen your knowledge.