At the Center for Disaster Preparedness (CDP) in The Philippines, we have always dreamed of contributing to system change in development. But we were also conscious that persuading and encouraging those in the status quo will always be difficult as they wittingly or unwittingly contribute to perpetuating the system we seek to transform. We believed that only in planting a new system through prototyping new ways of doing things such as grantmaking, transforming revolutionary concepts into practice, that new praxis and models will gradually and ultimately make the existing system obsolete thereby giving birth to a new system. This is definitely a lonely battle, but it’s...
At the Center for Disaster Preparedness (CDP) in The Philippines, we have always dreamed of contributing to system change in development. But we were also conscious that persuading and encouraging those in the status quo will always be difficult as they wittingly or unwittingly contribute...