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Developing Social Entrepreneurs in Egypt

Mia Eisenstadt
Apr 30, 2013
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Reos Partners is working with Bamyan Media, a small media company currently based in Cairo, Egypt on the following challenge:

How does a startup with no track record in Egypt, make and sell a Reality-TV show that supports and develops social entrepreneurs in Egypt on a massive scale?

Following the Egyptian Revolution of 2011 and the broader Arab Spring, Egypt is in the midst of an enormous social change and faces fundamental questions about its future. The iconic Tahrir Square continues to buzz with protest and political activity. It's a time of instability, uncertainty and opportunity for change.

In this context, Reos Partners was approached by Bamyan media who had previously produced a successful TV show in Afghanistan about social entrepreneurship.

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Changing education at scale: Lessons from Camp Snowball

LeAnne Grillo
Apr 29, 2013
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Changing education at scale: lessons from Camp Snowball

Camp Snowball, a program supported by Reos Partners, is building students and educators’ capacity for systems thinking to better navigate the complexity of the world they are inheriting.

For the past two summers, Reos Partners has joined with the Waters Foundation Systems Thinking in Schools Project, SoL Education Partnership, Cloud Institute for Education for Sustainability, and Creative Learning Exchange to co-create a multi-faceted camp program designed to build students’ and educators’ capacity in systems thinking, education for sustainability, youth engagement, and organisational learning while building a learning community to support them after camp is over. By embedding these toolsets system-wide – in classrooms, schools, school districts, and communities – we hope to create better student outcomes. 

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A Continuous Learning Process for Scenario Planning

Gerald Harris
Dec 5, 2012
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A fundamental tenet of scenario-based planning is that the future is uncertain and unpredictable. To help planners and decision-makers sensitize themselves to the unfolding events that are most relevant to their challenges and questions, many scenario projects include a “learning-forward” component defined by specific tools. Reos is currently leading the Western Electric Coordinating Council’s (WECC) scenario project, focused on long-term investments in electricity transmission systems in the western regions of Canada and the United States. 

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World Bank Institute: Open Contracting

Joe McCarron
Dec 5, 2012
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October 24, 2012 saw the launch of a major multi-year global initiative that Reos Partners has been designing and developing with the World Bank, German Society for International Cooperation (GIZ), and other partners. The “Open Contracting” initiative is based on the idea that citizens should be able to scrutinize and debate both the contracts that their governments enter into with the private sector and the ways these agreements are awarded and implemented (www.open-contracting.org). 

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A New Strategy for Aboriginal Health in New South Wales, Australia

Leigh Gassner
Stephen Atkinson
Oct 10, 2012
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In 2011 the Centre for Aboriginal Health (CAH), a unit of the Ministry of Health in Sydney, Australia, was struggling to develop a 10-year Aboriginal health plan for New South Wales. To develop the report, CAH partnered with the Aboriginal Health and Medical Research Council, which represents the Aboriginal community–controlled health sector. In particular CAH wanted the 10-year plan to challenge orthodox planning approaches and generate creative thinking that would lead to new action and energy in addressing Aboriginal health issues. 

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Transformative Scenario Planning

Adam Kahane
Sep 10, 2012
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Each of us must choose, in each situation, how we will approach the future. Sometimes we choose to accept what is happening around us and try to adapt ourselves to it. Other times we choose to challenge what is happening and try to change it. This is the choice that Reinhold Niebuhr pointed to in his much-loved maxim: “Lord grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.”

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The Southern Africa Food Lab

Colleen Magner
May 4, 2012
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Researchers have documented that South Africa is afflicted by widespread food insecurity and hunger in both urban and rural areas. While, in aggregate, the country has enough resources to feed all of its inhabitants, one out of two households is at risk of hunger; almost 16% of South Africans consume less than adequate energy to meet their needs; and about 22% of children under nine years of age are stunted. These statistics indicate that many South Africans live in a state of chronic malnutrition. 

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The Global Climate Change and Energy Initiative (GCEI)

Mia Eisenstadt
May 4, 2012
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Two and half years ago, Reos Partners was asked to facilitate a global meeting for an international team at the World Wildlife Fund for Nature (WWF) in preparation for the Conference of Parties in Copenhagen, the gathering of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). At this annual event, heads of state discuss and form agreements on combating climate change, including plans to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and to adapt to an unpredictable world of increased global temperatures.
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The Change Lab with Instituto EcoSocial in Brazil

Christel Scholten
Dec 13, 2011
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Instituto EcoSocial (www.ecosocial.com.br) was created in 2002 to promote human, organisational, and social development. In late 2010, a new leadership team approached the Reos Partners São Paulo office to facilitate a Change Lab process for the organisation’s 50 members. The members wanted to broaden their perception of the opportunities and challenges currently facing Brazil, revisit their organisational vision, and expand the role they can play in the sustainable development of the country.

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North Star Scenarios: Community Activation in South Africa

Colleen Magner
Dec 13, 2011
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Reos Johannesburg is facilitating a community activation project in what is known as the “Northern Areas” of Port Elizabeth, an industrial city in the south of the country. Communities in this area have been hard-hit by a shrinking economy, job losses, and political infighting, resulting in increasing gang and drug activity, xenophobic attacks, and other social challenges.

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