Case Study: A New Approach to Risk Sharing and Compliance Management

This inno­va­tion explores ways to re-imag­ine the approach to risk and com­pli­ance man­age­ment, by test­ing the val­ue and impact of well-designed and facil­i­tat­ed ‘brave encoun­ters’ between impor­tant yet under- or un-con­nect­ed parts of the val­ue chain with­in risk and com­pli­ance. This involves bring­ing togeth­er actors from donor organ­i­sa­tions, inter­me­di­ary INGOs and local CSOs that might not usu­al­ly engage with each oth­er to engage in a facil­i­tat­ed dis­cus­sion where they can talk open­ly and hon­est­ly about the real moti­va­tions, needs and impacts of the sys­tem in place. For INGOs, this would include finance offi­cers, com­pli­ance offi­cers or pro­gramme offi­cers who are more like­ly to impose con­trols or bureau­crat­ic bur­dens on recip­i­ent organ­i­sa­tions. The pro­to­type test­ed whether and how good con­ver­sa­tions between pro­fes­sion­als who do not nor­mal­ly con­nect could build new rela­tion­ships and thus a dif­fer­ent work­ing atmos­phere, so that the exist­ing sys­tems designed to man­age and mit­i­gate risk, and to han­dle account­abil­i­ty, could be built in a more fair, rea­son­able and effec­tive way.

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