When the farmer stood on the chair

How SDC collaborated with partners to develop a Call for Proposals and used constellation to generate shared insight and ideas

Oct 23 • 

Christina Tewes-Gradl

September 2025

After the summer

Oh, summer!

Sep 30 • 

Christina Tewes-Gradl

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August 2025

Why do we need system innovations?

Imagine waking up one morning finding that some of the social problems you care about most have been solved overnight:

Aug 25 • 

Jan Schröder

Cultivating change - how we set sails towards system innovation

Creating better conditions for solar energy in rural areas in Senegal required just a dozen actors around the table - and a solid process.

Aug 14 • 

Christina Tewes-Gradl

Ask the Expert: How to map the Actor Ecosystem?

In all of our work, curating a productive set of actors for the system innovation process is key to success.

Aug 6 • 

Christina Tewes-Gradl

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July 2025

Catalyzing Access to Energy in Senegal: How System Innovation fueled the Solar Revolution

“Development in today’s world requires a new kind of partnership and leadership,” Tomas Sales tells me when I ask what inspired him and UNDP to take a…

Jul 30 • 

Christina Tewes-Gradl

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Who can change systems?

Are you working for a foundation, public agency, or NGO seeking transformative change? Or are you facilitating system innovation processes? Then join…

Jul 22 • 

Christina Tewes-Gradl

From complexity to possibility

How system change becomes doable

Jul 18 • 

Christina Tewes-Gradl

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System Innovation

Where is utopia? System innovation defined

I often ask myself: why don’t we just do it?

Jul 16 • 

Christina Tewes-Gradl

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System Innovation

Join us on our system innovation book journey!

For those who want to be part of the journey towards our system innovation book, we will outline our expected travel plan.

Jul 2 • 

Christina Tewes-Gradl

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System Innovation

June 2025

Exploring system innovation

When we started on our journey to facilitate innovation at system level in 2017, the name "system innovation" hardly existed.

Jun 25 • 

Christina Tewes-Gradl

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System Innovation