Saving for Change: Case Study of Scaling & Innovation March 27, 2009 Saving for Change: Case Study of Scaling & Innovation March 27, 2009.

Saving for Change:

Case Study of Scaling

&

InnovationMarch 27, 2009

Saving for Change:

Case Study of Scaling

&

InnovationMarch 27, 2009

Leadership

TeamsOrganization

Network Weaver

Self-OrganizationPositive Deviance

RhizomaticPathways

Embedded in a Smart Network

Opportunity Group

A group that comes together to explore a particular opportunity

They ran group

“Act your way into a new way of thinking/being”

Noticing & Reflection

• Developed the process for memorizing

• Developed pictograph methodology

Innovation

Pictographic booklet with simple process for memorizing how much

people have saved and/or borrowed and how much interest they have

accumulated

New methodology

“When we have more money in the fund than demand for loans we purchase sacks of maize and rice and then we sell them during the rainy season when the price is high.”

“If you get sick, the group will go to your fields for you.”

“Before my children would cry at night. Now they sleep better, they

have full bellies.”

“Now if you don’t have your own money you can get it from the group. This creates a good atmosphere between wives and husbands.”

Opportunity Group Embedded in a Network

These patterns influence the quality of communication and the likelihood of collaboration and innovation

Networks are sets of relationships and the patterns they create

Core consists of clusters w different perspectives who know & trust each other

Periphery draws in new ideas & resources

This represents a Field of Potential

Characteristics of Smart NetworksCharacteristics of Smart Networks

Characteristics of Smart NetworksCharacteristics of Smart Networks

Action

Many people initiate experiments & collaborations

Move from small acts to larger

Breakthroughs from diversity

Successful innovations spread

Characteristics of Smart NetworksCharacteristics of Smart Networks

Much capacity building, skill building

Trust building activities

Facilitation of initial actions

Creation of support structures & communication systems

Network Weaver

Catalytic agent

Generates tremendous energy by connecting people well and encouraging

them to self-organize

Self-organization

Anyone can see something that needs to be done, can find the appropriate others and resources to help them do it, and then is willing to share what they learn with others in the network.

Project EcosystemProject Ecosystem

Twosies build relationships

SmallProjects

buildskills

Large Projectsfor impact

Micro skills & processes

• Listening• Accurate awareness of others• Self-awareness & non-attachment• Coaching• Openness to diverse perspective• Appreciation• Facilitation

Rhizomatic

NW: Support Expansion along Natural Pathways

Animators reporting that women were started other saving groups on their own -- sharing with their existing networks!

Started providing training & coaching to them from the beginning

Can increase project impact by 10 times for little cost

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5 8 , 1 6 2

9 5 , 4 0 7

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1 4 4 , 4 3 4

1 6 1 , 7 6 5

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Number of Villagers Involved in Saving for Change

NW: Unnatural Bridging for Learning, Deep Reflection and

Innovation

• Overlapping clusters • Animators from different areas meet together

regularly to share what they are noticing - stream innovations from one area to another

• Getting women in villages to bring new ideas to village elders

• Getting NGOs to work together

CommunicationSystems

Resource Flow

Mapping & Metrics

Micro-skills

Innovation Funds

How can networks in different countries share & learn?

How can NGOs work collaboratively so that a stream of new strategies are introduced

and supported?

New Leadership Roles

Catalytic agents – learning group with others

Network Weaver

Self-Organizing: Opportunity group – support for change, learning group

Specific methodology for action – loan process, postive dev

Through enactment of methodology Provide model and support for self-organizing (both individual business, and opportunity group) and reflection

Rhizomatic spreadSystem/training for spread or scaling by opp grp participants to other opportunity groups

System to transfer this methodology to other action arenas - framework for self-organizing (malaria nets, ponds)

New support system

Communication Infrastructure

Innovations: Innovation Funds, Positive Deviance, etc

Training/Coaching: Network Weaving micro processes and skills

For more information:

June Holleywww.networkweaving.com/blog

www.networkweaving.com/june.htmljune@ networkweaving.comTwitter & Skype: juneholley

Also Jeff Ashe, Oxfam.orgDirector of Saving for Change

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