OECD: Creating sustainable global impact in international development orgs / Intersection 23

with Tomomi Sasaki and Angela Hanson.
International development organizations create and implement aid programs and initiatives, totaling around $186 billion in 2021, that foster economic, social, and environmental progress in low and middle-income countries. These organisations must innovate and evolve to adapt their investment portfolios to the changing needs of aid recipients and to support achievement of Sustainable Development Goals. These organisations must also adapt and redesign themselves to deliver assistance in entirely new ways.
The Innovation for Development Facility at the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) developed an innovation portfolio analysis service to enable development organisations to rethink their portfolio of innovation investments and take action to evolve their portfolios. The talk will include insights and practical lessons based on experiences in Iceland and Belgium on how the approach can interrogate misalignment between an organisation’s stated agenda and its actions, design new organisational capabilities and processes, avoid stagnation and obsolescence, and activate development partners and ecosystems in the process.