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I'm Allan Best. I'm the managing director of the InSource Research Group.
We're based in Vancouver,
British Columbia, Canada.
The title of the paper for this conference was, "Complexity and Lessons
Learned from the Health Sector for Country Systems Strengthening."
And, basically, what we try to do is to provide a bridge between the research
and the people that actually use it in developing programs and policy.
Increasingly, what we do is to use the lens of a complex adaptive system.
Most of the problems that our clients want to deal with
are ones that truly are complex.
They're dynamic. They're constantly changing.
They require collaboration with different kinds of intersectoral partners
and we don't know how to do that very well.
So what we did our paper was try to focus on what are some of the simple rules
for how you go about moving systems forward towards strengthening.
For example,
there needs to be a balance between top-down and bottom-up leadership, a more
distributed, more empowering kind of a leadership style than we've
typically used in the past.
If there was one take-home lesson
I would want people to
go away with it's that when we move for that kind of complexity
that kind of dynamic, constantly changing quality to the system,
we don't know how to provide the feedback and the evaluation that's really
needed to
do a good job in working with the system to strengthen it.
We need to really invest heavily in developing better tools, better systems
for helping us plan,
monitor, and evaluate the kinds of system transformation that were engaged in. Thank You.