THE ROLE OF NGOs IN THE FUTURE Miquel de Paladella Institut d’Innovació Social, ESADE, April 2013
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§ INCOME § PROBLEM grows faster than our SOLUTION
§ LACK OF EVIDENCE of our RESULTS § CLIENTELISM took us to the WRONG
ROUTE § OTHERS ARE MORE EFFICIENT ...
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SOCIAL INNOVATION GAVE BIRTH TO MOST NGOs.
A novel solution to a social problem that is more effective, efficient, sustainable, or just than existing solutions and for which the value created accrues primarily to society as a whole rather than private individuals. Phills et al. 2008
SOCIAL INNOVATION
§ Rural schools cover their own expenses through business units operating in the market.
§ Education methodology manages to offer better results than traditional schools.
➔ Revised goals ➔ Different means
FUNDACIÓN PARAGUAYA
§ Pay-for-success mechanism to fund prevention. § Government agrees to pay if an outcome that decreases its
expenses is reached. NGOs/companies reach out to investors who fund their activities to achieve the outcomes.
§ Investors get their money back and a return if outcomes are achieved thanks to Government payment.
➔ Different goals ➔ Different means
SOCIAL IMPACT BONDS HUMAN CAPITAL PERFORMANCE BONDS (Minnesota, USA)
§ Prison as similar to society as possible: rights and responsibilities… managed by interns, focused on rehabilitation.
§ Recidivism reduced from 60% to 25%. § Social movement to promote model.
➔ Same goals ➔ Different means
UTE VILLABONA & GRUP33 BASTOY PRISON, NORWAY
WHAT ROLES? PAST FUTURE § Service delivery; § Service delivery; § Emergency response; § Emergency response; § Advocacy, Accountability &
Mobilisation; § Advocacy, Accountability &
Mobilisation; § Research, assessment,
dissemination. § Research, assessment,
dissemination. § Social R&D
§ Innovation in sustainability models to scale! ⤑ Pay-for-success models can generate the necessary resources
to scale-up prevention (Recidivism in prisons, child protection, active aging, health…).
⤑ The challenge is to develop a business model to solve a social need, so that you can scale up the service.
§ Evidence-based interventions are essential to ensure effectiveness and scale.
§ Social clauses in public procurement as vehicle for change.
SERVICE-DELIVERY
§ Aim at systemic change to ensure power, opportunities and income are well distributed;
§ Facilitate social movements to engage critical mass of people around our causes.
§ Lead in getting the deep systemic change in the agenda of social movements.
§ Funding coming from private sources only (AI, Greenpeace model).
ADVOCACY & ACCOUNTABILITY
§ Aversion to risk is too high in public institutions: R&D funds! § Evidence-based essay-error exercises to understand what
works and what doesn’t. Test new solutions like alternative currencies to self-funded communities.
§ Research and facilitate the implementation of proven social innovations that have succeeded in other countries: JUMP Math, Fundación Paraguaya, DiscoveringHands…).
R&D (I+D+i)
§ Turn users into producers, beneficiaries into designers: everyone matters! The intersect of disciplines and perspectives = collective intelligence.
§ Cultivate a sense of belonging: to a community that is actively searching for solutions to the problems we all care about. Cultivate trust, as the most important agent of change.
§ No barriers to participation: Most participation barriers today no longer exist. People can participate in rewarding ways. Even tiny units of engagement (“Like”) contribute to finding better solutions.
OPEN INNOVATION
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§ Same goals § Improved means
§ Revised goals
§ Different means
§ Same goals § Mixed of means
§ Different goals
§ Different means
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