Facilitating Multi Stakeholder Processes and Social Learning - 2010
Herman Brouwer/ Karèn Verhoosel
Centre for Development Innovation
Institutional analysis
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Process Model for MSP interventions
Initiating phase: Situational and context analysis
Collaborative Action
Adaptive PlanningInitiating
Reflective Monitoring
Institutions
Understood as the ‘rules of the game’ that make ordered social life possible.
Examples of institutions: Language Currency Marriage Religion
Education system Laws Policies
Institutions
By definition, institutions are the more stable and permanent aspects of human systems.
Many institutions have evolved without much conscious design, and they interrelate with each other in a complex network.
Our lives are embedded in this highly complex web of social institutions, and we take many of them for granted, often not questioning their origin or the underlying assumptions and beliefs on which they are based.
Difference Organisations - Institutions
Organisations: structures that have been created to
implement institutions such as laws, regulations, religion, markets etc.
Institutions: the rules, organisations and social norms that
facilitate human and organisational action.
Group work
Institutional analysis: The group work is facilitated by one
participant At the end the other provide feedback on the
facilitation
Institutional analysis
What are the key institutions influencing (positive or negative) your MSP? Values, norms; laws, policies; organisations,
structures, networks; services, citizens demands, actions etc.
Make an institutional map using 4 aspects of institutions (meaning, control, association, action)
Implications for MSPs
What are the key constraining institutions for our MSP? How can we change them, reduce them?
What are the key supportive institutions? How can we build on them? Strengthen them?
What is the scope of our MSP, which institutions can we influence, which can’t we?
What other stakeholders do we need to bring on board to make the MSP work in light of this institutional context?