Opinion pieces by Tessa

The year of systems change: 3 things we need to do before we start

Tessa de Geus

Government in transition, Social innovation

Last summer Tessa's article on how our obsession with measuring social impact prevents us from tackling societal problems hit a nerve in the social innovation community. Following the responses to this piece, Tessa is convinced that systems thinking is the way forward for social innovation. However, to make this the year of systems change, Tessa calls for 3 important preconditions to bear in mind.
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Forget about impact: let’s be honest about systems change

Participants of Amsterdammers, Make your City! during a session on partnerships.

Social innovation

The obsession with mapping social impact distracts us from the discussion that we should be having: that social innovation does not evidently equate systems change. We need to urgently invest in a comprehensive understanding of systems if we want to forge social change.
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Don’t help newcomers, empower them instead

Government in transition, Social innovation

The organising team of the European Social Innovation Competition recently visited Berlin to prepare for the Social Innovation Academy in July. Read on to find out about their four main takeaways from Berlin’s refugee and migrant social innovation scene.
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