Our Enablers

Why Our Approach Works

Our ecosystem building success and impact stems from focussing both on what we do - our core work - and being intentional about who we do it with, and how we do it. We call this our "Secret Sauce", made up of the following ingredients: 

• We focus on people and relationships first, then technology.
• We build on the existing, investing in partnerships and collaborations.
• We advocate for local leadership and global support.
• We build for replication and scale, for solutions to move from local to global.
• We invest into storytelling to shift mindsets and narratives.
• We document our work and learnings, and create models, blueprints and frameworks.

Our secret sauce comes to life through models and cross-cutting enablers we build in parallel to our core work.

Our Glocalization Model

The model, co-created over the past 10 years, provides the underlying infrastructures to guide the “locally led, globally supported” direction. It connects all parts of our core work, allowing them to work together like a living system, each one strengthening the others.

Frameworks and Blueprints

Through our collaborations and solutions, we co-create frameworks and blueprints that translate experiences made into practical approaches. This allows for learning to circulate freely, and solutions and collaborations to scale and replicate across different contexts, without imposing rigid models.

Storytelling

Giving local experts a voice and visibility, telling the stories of their solutions is an essential part of our work. This supports the much needed mindset and narrative change to shift how technology, leadership, and collaboration are understood, making locally led approaches more visible, credible, and widely recognized.