{"id":5232,"date":"2022-07-06T17:58:00","date_gmt":"2022-07-06T20:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/redecomua.org.br\/?p=5232"},"modified":"2023-08-12T19:09:39","modified_gmt":"2023-08-12T22:09:39","slug":"can-money-buy-everything-resourcing-in-the-new-system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordpress-wyy8bhlsif5v8gukfr0yhxue.studio.tikovolpe.com.br\/en\/can-money-buy-everything-resourcing-in-the-new-system\/","title":{"rendered":"Can money buy everything? Resourcing in the new system"},"content":{"rendered":"

This piece is part of a series of articles exploring the topic of civil society resourcing, and why this needs to be rethought \u2013 particularly in terms of placing more value on civil society's \u201cintangible\u201d assets. See other posts: Rethinking civil society resourcing<\/a> and Moving from the old to the new: Why it's time to rethink civil society resourcing.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

When we think capital or resources (I will use those terms inter-changeably) we often tend to automatically think money, finances, cash, funds. Yes, of course it is a kind of resource. But is it the only kind that makes things happen \u2013 to bring drinking water to a community, establish a network of health care posts, put together an urban neighborhood's waste management system?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Think about it \u2013 what really are the different types of resources that come together to create something of value for a community, that changes their lives?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Every system \u2013 a village, a school, a self-help group, a local football team \u2013 tends to run on multiple forms of resources. AND various parts of each of those systems bring with them various kinds of resources for those systems to function. Singles<\/em> in the village or on a football team might have time, skill and experience \u2013 human and intellectual capital. Communities<\/em> tend to have a common history, values, commitment, labor force, relationships and networks \u2013 social and cultural capital. Institutions<\/em>, like the village committee, the district education department, the water and sanitation department have equipment, buildings, infrastructure AND their respective leadership mandate \u2013 social, political and physical capital. In any system, if you look, you will find there exists a wealth of resources, which are very much part of the \u201cresource pool\u201d but are not always as visible to us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Also, while looking at any system we might consider looking at it having both refinement<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0sources<\/em>\u00a0of various kinds of capital.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So if we were to replace the image in our mind of a pot of money and instead look at it as a round bread with many slices what would our \u201cresource bread\u201d look like? Remember each slice makes that round bread round. The bread is incomplete without each of the slices. Just having one slice of financial capital will never be sufficient to create the change we need.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While creating a new system, we might consider thinking with a mind that lives<\/em> in the new system. What I mean is, we may not succeed in building the system we want if we continue with our old system thinking, where, for instance, financial capital is the only<\/em> resources. We might need to shift our imagination from the single pot of money to the round bread with many slices.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While thinking in new-system terms the round bread opens up to us the broader palette of resources that exist as part of any system.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The opportunity here with the new-system thinking<\/em> is we can begin to influence and negotiate new ways of appreciation, collaboration, partnership with<\/em> mutual respect, dignity, integrity and a redistribution of power \u2013 the real foundation of collaboration<\/em>. It also might hold the key that brings us together (ie the current demand and the supply sides of the system) to collectively create integrated resources<\/em> strategies<\/em> \u2013 strategies that replace the single pot with the round bread, while making change happen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the process we might discover what<\/em> each of us brings to the table and how<\/em> we actually begin to negotiate our way forward with new, reimagined collective and cohesive<\/em> thinking and action.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Having worked with development, climate and human rights globally over three decades, Tara is stimulated by living life as a systems change designer, serving diverse communities. She began her professional life as an architect and now combines her skills and experiences in exciting on-the-ground action, like #ShiftThePower.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

By: Tara Rao<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Originally posted at: https:\/\/shiftthepower.org\/2022\/06\/10\/can-money-buy-everything-resourcing-in-the-new-system\/<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This piece is part of a series of articles exploring the topic of civil society resourcing, and why this needs to be rethought \u2013 particularly in terms of placing more value on civil society's \u201cintangible\u201d assets. See other posts: Rethinking civil society resourcing and Moving from the old to the new: Why it's time to rethink civil society resourcing.<\/p>\n

When we think capital or resources (I will use those terms inter-changeably) we often tend to automatically think money, finances, cash, funds. Yes, of course it is a kind of resource. But is it the only kind that makes things happen \u2013 to bring drinking water to a community, establish a network of health care posts, put together an urban neighborhood's waste management system?<\/p>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4929,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[120,102,124],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5232","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-englishversion","category-shiftthepower","category-filantropia-comunitaria"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress-wyy8bhlsif5v8gukfr0yhxue.studio.tikovolpe.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5232","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress-wyy8bhlsif5v8gukfr0yhxue.studio.tikovolpe.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress-wyy8bhlsif5v8gukfr0yhxue.studio.tikovolpe.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress-wyy8bhlsif5v8gukfr0yhxue.studio.tikovolpe.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress-wyy8bhlsif5v8gukfr0yhxue.studio.tikovolpe.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5232"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress-wyy8bhlsif5v8gukfr0yhxue.studio.tikovolpe.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5232\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress-wyy8bhlsif5v8gukfr0yhxue.studio.tikovolpe.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4929"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress-wyy8bhlsif5v8gukfr0yhxue.studio.tikovolpe.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress-wyy8bhlsif5v8gukfr0yhxue.studio.tikovolpe.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress-wyy8bhlsif5v8gukfr0yhxue.studio.tikovolpe.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}