Andre Head
@andrehead.bsky.social
Fixer of things, applier of appropriate technology and creator of digital tools for better lives
wgicouncil.org resiliencebrokers.org
wgicouncil.org resiliencebrokers.org
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Systemic change: an evolving practice with 45+ guides…so what? medium.com/@emilyfrance...
Systemic Change: An Evolving Practice with 45+ Guides…So What?
Over the past decade, systemic change has evolved from a buzzword to a practice. In philanthropy, government, development, non-profits, and…
medium.com
November 13, 2025 at 7:01 AM
Systemic change: an evolving practice with 45+ guides…so what? medium.com/@emilyfrance...
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"So let me check in: raise your hand if you listened to this definition of systemic investing and thought “that sounds great, but unrealistic”? medium.com/inanna-globa...
Systemic Investing For Agrifood System Transformation
This was originally written as an introductory presentation for a panel on “Systemic investing in agrifood systems — Responding to complex…
medium.com
November 3, 2025 at 4:50 AM
"So let me check in: raise your hand if you listened to this definition of systemic investing and thought “that sounds great, but unrealistic”? medium.com/inanna-globa...
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"Successful standards evolve from small, functioning systems rather than grand designs. They remain lightweight and adaptable. Their creators are practitioners who understand real constraints" tial.org/publications...
White paper #003: Emergent standards: Enabling collaborations across institutions – TIAL
Instead of designing top-down systems, institutions should create conditions in which small groups can build minimal, working standards that others can adopt.
tial.org
November 3, 2025 at 9:19 AM
"Successful standards evolve from small, functioning systems rather than grand designs. They remain lightweight and adaptable. Their creators are practitioners who understand real constraints" tial.org/publications...
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Supporting practical integration of systems thinking in monitoring, evaluation and learning 360systemsguide.com
360 Systems Guide
MEL 360: Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning for Systems Change
360systemsguide.com
November 2, 2025 at 12:55 PM
Supporting practical integration of systems thinking in monitoring, evaluation and learning 360systemsguide.com
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[We need more of this] Who would pay for a cross-cutting service in a government structured around departmental silos? Lessons in the politics of digital transformation www.ucl.ac.uk/bartlett/pub...
Scaling Digital Infrastructure in a Siloed State
Authored by Hannah White and David Eaves
www.ucl.ac.uk
October 16, 2025 at 5:03 AM
[We need more of this] Who would pay for a cross-cutting service in a government structured around departmental silos? Lessons in the politics of digital transformation www.ucl.ac.uk/bartlett/pub...
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Systems Change: insights and reflections for development practitioners policy-practice.oxfam.org/resources/sy...
policy-practice.oxfam.org
October 6, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Systems Change: insights and reflections for development practitioners policy-practice.oxfam.org/resources/sy...
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15 case studies that highlight women-led innovations and inclusive approaches,within agricultural systems across Africa aaspace.org/items/15e5e6...
August 31, 2025 at 1:35 PM
15 case studies that highlight women-led innovations and inclusive approaches,within agricultural systems across Africa aaspace.org/items/15e5e6...
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"For innovation portfolios to succeed—for founders, investors, and users—the innovation ecosystem needs measurement systems that treat learning as a central outcome" caribou.global/publications...
Measuring Innovation: Why Learning is the Real Engine of Innovation Funds | Caribou
Redefining impact measurement in innovation—treating learning as the real engine that drives adaptive funds and ecosystem impact.
caribou.global
September 11, 2025 at 4:51 AM
"For innovation portfolios to succeed—for founders, investors, and users—the innovation ecosystem needs measurement systems that treat learning as a central outcome" caribou.global/publications...
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"What if there was an AI-powered tool that allowed policymakers to rapidly identify the most effective policies to tackle any given social challenge, based on the latest evidence available from academic and grey literature?" www.nesta.org.uk/project-upda...
Harnessing AI to positively disrupt policymaking
Lessons learned from our user research
www.nesta.org.uk
September 11, 2025 at 4:43 AM
"What if there was an AI-powered tool that allowed policymakers to rapidly identify the most effective policies to tackle any given social challenge, based on the latest evidence available from academic and grey literature?" www.nesta.org.uk/project-upda...
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The Renca Innovation Factory: a model of public innovation for sustainable development centreforpublicimpact.org/resource-hub...
The Renca Innovation Factory: A model of public innovation for sustainable development - Centre for Public Impact
Renca, Santiago, gains global recognition for empowering marginalised communities through sustainable development, led by La Fábrica de Renca.
centreforpublicimpact.org
September 10, 2025 at 6:33 AM
The Renca Innovation Factory: a model of public innovation for sustainable development centreforpublicimpact.org/resource-hub...
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Systemic investing for social change: a starter kit papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
September 7, 2025 at 9:18 AM
Systemic investing for social change: a starter kit papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
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Mapping grassroots agricultural innovation in Africa sdg-innovation-commons.org/next-practic...
Grassroots agricultural innovation in Africa
This collection looks at the dataset of grassroots innovation (also called "solutions") mapped by the Accelerator Labs on the African continent and related to food and agriculture. Its goal is to prov...
sdg-innovation-commons.org
August 21, 2025 at 4:57 AM
Mapping grassroots agricultural innovation in Africa sdg-innovation-commons.org/next-practic...
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When farmer Chris Conder dug her own fibreoptic cables on her property in Lancashire, she set out “to prove that ordinary people could do it … it wasn’t rocket science” www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Enough of the billionaires and their big tech. ‘Frugal tech’ will build us all a better world | Eleanor Drage
Titans like Musk would love us to believe innovation means top-down solutions that only enrich the wealthy. In fact, we all have the power, says Eleanor Drage, research fellow at Cambridge University
www.theguardian.com
August 3, 2025 at 5:50 AM
When farmer Chris Conder dug her own fibreoptic cables on her property in Lancashire, she set out “to prove that ordinary people could do it … it wasn’t rocket science” www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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"Open Source Nest is an initiative to localise open source and make it more relatable and accessible to Africans" opensourcenest.org
Open Source Nest
A beginner-friendly open source initiative promoting inclusion, collaboration, and digital empowerment through learning and advocacy.
opensourcenest.org
August 3, 2025 at 5:55 AM
"Open Source Nest is an initiative to localise open source and make it more relatable and accessible to Africans" opensourcenest.org
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A framework for satellite-based national agricultural monitoring for the African context www.nature.com/articles/s44...
A framework for EO-based National Agricultural Monitoring (EO-NAM) for the African Context - npj Sustainable Agriculture
Effective agriculture monitoring is vital for food security and achieving UN Sustainable Development Goal 2: Zero Hunger. Earth-observations (EO) offer unparalleled potential for scalable data, yet ma...
www.nature.com
August 4, 2025 at 4:04 PM
A framework for satellite-based national agricultural monitoring for the African context www.nature.com/articles/s44...
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MijiBora is a collaborative platform supporting African cities to unlock bold, people-centered digital solutions for urban transformation mijibora.africa
About MijiBora
MijiBora is a collaborative platform supporting African cities to unlock bold, people-centered digital solutions for urban transformation.
mijibora.africa
August 19, 2025 at 5:28 AM
MijiBora is a collaborative platform supporting African cities to unlock bold, people-centered digital solutions for urban transformation mijibora.africa
“Collaboration is the new currency”
"Dynamic portfolio management" sounds great in theory, but it's hard to practice in a world of siloed projects and logframes. Insights from the systems M&E pilot in Karamoja medium.com/@undp.innova...
Learning in the Borderlands: Early Lessons from the Systems MLE Pilot in Karamoja
Authors:
Zazie Tolmer, Carolin Schramm, Ida Uusikyla, and Suzane Muhereza
medium.com
April 29, 2025 at 10:44 PM
“Collaboration is the new currency”
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[Interesting framing] The role played by a culture of possibility for regional development www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Behavioural theory and regional development: nurturing cultures of possibility
This paper explores how regions can catalyse behavioural change and nurture cultures of possibility. ‘Possibility’ refers to emergent patterns of human behaviour resulting in alternative and improv...
www.tandfonline.com
March 21, 2025 at 6:39 AM
[Interesting framing] The role played by a culture of possibility for regional development www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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A systems map is less a tool that helps us understand a system, & more a process that can help people name their assumptions, get out of their comfort zones, & enable teams to get out of their silos. The process is more valuable than the product innovators-thegoodshift.medium.com/learning-tow...
Learning Towards Zero: A Context for Learning about Systems Innovation
Picture a world where homelessness is not something that is ‘managed’ but where we actively strive to reduce, prevent and ultimately move…
innovators-thegoodshift.medium.com
March 19, 2025 at 3:33 PM
A systems map is less a tool that helps us understand a system, & more a process that can help people name their assumptions, get out of their comfort zones, & enable teams to get out of their silos. The process is more valuable than the product innovators-thegoodshift.medium.com/learning-tow...
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Casual loop diagram of tree planting in Freetown
February 15, 2025 at 5:22 PM
Casual loop diagram of tree planting in Freetown
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Really interesting report on Freetown the Treetown campaign: "for every USD 1 invested in this project, the societal return is USD 2.94" nbi.iisd.org/report/tree-...
Tree planting for Climate Resilience in Freetown, Sierra Leone - Nature-Based Infrastructure Global Resource Centre
Rapid population growth and urban expansion is resulting in the loss of half a million trees each year in Freetown, Sierra Leone.
nbi.iisd.org
February 15, 2025 at 5:22 PM
Really interesting report on Freetown the Treetown campaign: "for every USD 1 invested in this project, the societal return is USD 2.94" nbi.iisd.org/report/tree-...
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Here’s to 2025.
We can do this.
We can do this.
December 29, 2024 at 10:49 AM
Here’s to 2025.
We can do this.
We can do this.
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Two South London galleries on the same day, both showing one of my pieces of art 🎨🙌🏼 SouthwarkPark gallery closing party and IsolationArt in Surrey Quays thanks to all
December 15, 2024 at 12:48 PM
Two South London galleries on the same day, both showing one of my pieces of art 🎨🙌🏼 SouthwarkPark gallery closing party and IsolationArt in Surrey Quays thanks to all
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As part of their efforts to m̴a̴k̴e̴ ̴m̴o̴n̴e̴y̴…sorry…expose the truth, Y̴o̴u̴t̴u̴b̴e̴ ̴g̴r̴i̴f̴t̴e̴r̴s̴…sorry…freedom fighters have begun focusing on this strange symbol worn by the likes of Bill Gates and, err, me.
What could it mean, and why is it actually pretty cool?
This big 🧵is for you...👇
What could it mean, and why is it actually pretty cool?
This big 🧵is for you...👇
November 14, 2024 at 12:12 PM
As part of their efforts to m̴a̴k̴e̴ ̴m̴o̴n̴e̴y̴…sorry…expose the truth, Y̴o̴u̴t̴u̴b̴e̴ ̴g̴r̴i̴f̴t̴e̴r̴s̴…sorry…freedom fighters have begun focusing on this strange symbol worn by the likes of Bill Gates and, err, me.
What could it mean, and why is it actually pretty cool?
This big 🧵is for you...👇
What could it mean, and why is it actually pretty cool?
This big 🧵is for you...👇