Facilitating Multi Stakeholder Processes and Social Learning Herman Brouwer/ Karèn Verhoosel Centre for Development Innovation Institutional analysis Visit://portals.wi.wur.nl/msp//portals.wi.wur.nl/msp

Process Model for MSP interventions Initiating phase: Situational and context analysis Collaborative Action Adaptive Planning Initiating 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.

Institutions – ‘Rules of the game’ Institutions are the rules and regulations, mechanisms, norms and values that influence livelihood, be they formal or informal. Institutions are stable, valued, recurring patterns of behaviour that persist over time by serving collective valued purposes. Institutions can be seen as the result of a group of people to ensure their vested interests in a particular situation. In effect, institutions do determine the structure of formal and informal power arrangements.

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.

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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)

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?

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