Trust, power and collaboration: Human Learning Systems approaches in voluntary and community organisations (July 2020)
Trust, power and collaboration shares practical suggestions for taking a ‘human learning systems’ approach to commissioning and funding relationships. The paper aimed to capture the varying experiences of those adapting their practice, and identify both what is happening and what needs to change to enable different ways of working – for both VCS organisations and funders/commissioners.
The paper asks VCS's what complexity-informed practice looks like. The responses are split into two sub-sections; process and behavioural strands. The paper then makes a number of practical suggestions. The process section contains information on topics, including: experience-led design and delivery and open and transparent commissioning and the behavioral section on devolved power and control and accessible language.
The research was carried out in partnership with Northumbria University and The Tudor Trust.
