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System Praxis CoP

Vision: The System Praxis CoP provides systemic support to the Tsitsa Project. Its vision is to foster an increase in ‘systemicity’ within the Tsitsa Project via improving systems thinking and modelling capability across the project and its stakeholders. In order for us to be clear on what this community of practice does, we believe it is helpful to begin with distinguishing what its activities should not be about:

  1. It should not be about everyone doing simulation modeling.
  2. It should not be about the use of any one approach to systems thinking or modelling
  3. It should not be undertaking discrete, standalone work, but rather working - as far as possible - to support integration and to facilitate collaboration across CoPs and work packages within the broader TP.

Systems thinking is a set of synergistic analytic skills used to improve the capability of identifying and  understanding systems, predicting their behaviors, and devising modifications to them in order to produce desired effects. These skills work together as a system (Arnold & Wade, 2015: 675). The System Praxis CoP has produced two models for the Tsitsa Project, the Rangelands, Markets and Livelihoods, and Soil Erosion, Infrastructure and Economic Development models.

Coordinator: Rozanne Peacock

Last Modified: Tue, 17 Nov 2020 08:44:03 SAST