Mobilisation
A market only endures when the local organisations expected to run it helped design it.
Our take
Development finance is shifting from funding projects to building markets.
Systemic design gives a programme team a way to see the whole field, decide where to intervene, and leave behind practice the field runs itself.
What we're seeing
For a funder or convenor, the familiar problem is that the meetings happen and the field does not move.
We align the coalition on where the system's edges sit, design the shared map and narrative with its members, and build the rhythm that keeps it meeting, then hand it over. What you keep is a coalition that moves without you.
How we can help
We help a funder or convenor mobilise a coalition around a shared picture of the system, and keep strategy in step as the system changes.
That includes mapping how your system really works, setting a direction your people will own, and handing over a rhythm the field runs itself.
Related work and articles
Catalysing new donor practices to create long-term impact
Planning a multi-stakeholder engagement with an entrepreneurial ecosystem
Stirring the sediment: the material practices of systemic design
Systemic design approaches in strategy are about more than building maps; it's about actively stirring the hidden currents of culture, relationships, and everyday materials towards long-lasting change.
While we had a broad sense of where we wanted to get to, Snowmelt worked with us iteratively to forge a path and message which is now being taken up by others. It’s been a pleasure working with Snowmelt.