The learning tools and exercises in this guidebook encourage users to think deeply about capacity development strategies. There are at least three fundamentals of the process that will be reiterated throughout:
- Use learning facilitators when appropriate. Expert individuals and teams can encourage discussion, reflection, and co-creation, ultimately helping to drive an innovation systems approach to capacity development.
- Create broad ownership of the process. Involving local stakeholders in a meaningful and substantive manner can lead to pathways, routines, and solutions that might have not been obvious at the outset.
- Embrace both complexity and flexibility. Innovation systems thinking is inherently complex, and its contribution to capacity development requires a flexible understanding of when, where, and how to use it.
