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What is Sector Transformation?

Sector transformation reshapes industries to achieve equity, sustainability, and systemic impact by aligning actors, reforming structures, and scaling innovations for lasting social and environmental progress.
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Social Innovation

Definitions focused on work to improve life for people and planet.

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Non-Experimental Research

Non-experimental research offers insights into real-world relationships and patterns without manipulating variables, supporting social innovation and informing policy where experiments are not feasible.
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Shared (Lived) Experience

Shared lived experience centers the perspectives of those directly affected by social issues, fostering authentic, trusted, and effective solutions in nonprofits and social innovation.
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Systems Leadership

Systems leadership enables collaboration across sectors to address complex social challenges by mobilizing diverse stakeholders for systemic change and long-term impact.
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Sustainable Development

Terms associated with development policy, funding, and delivery systems.

Compliance Monitoring

Compliance monitoring ensures adherence to standards and regulations, safeguarding credibility and trust in development and...

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Outsourced / Contracted Delivery

Outsourced delivery enables organizations to extend services by engaging external providers, allowing focus on core...

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Collaboration between organizations and external delivery partners

Collaborative Leadership

Collaborative leadership fosters partnership and shared decision-making to address complex challenges, build trust, and drive...

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Logic Model

Logic models visually link resources, activities, outputs, outcomes, and impact to simplify complex strategies, enhance...

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Proximatepedia List of Concepts

Action Research Adaptive Leadership Adaptive Management Advocacy Agile Execution Applied Research Balanced Score Card Basic Research Beneficiary / Community Monitoring Business Entrepreneurship Capacity Building Causal Loop Mapping Change Agent Co-Creation Coalition Building Collaborative Leadership Collective Impact Collective Leadership Communities of Practice Community Champions Community Organizing Community-Based Delivery Community-Based Leadership Compliance Monitoring Context Monitoring Cost-Effectiveness / Economic Evaluation Cross-Subsidization Demonstration Model Diffusion of Innovations Digital Platforms Direct Service Disruptive Innovation Ecosystem Mapping Ecosystem Strengthening Evidence Building Experimental Research External / Independent Monitoring Fee-for-Service Field Building Field Catalyst Field Mapping / Field Scans Formative Evaluation Franchise Model Government Adoption Grassroots Agency Growth Trajectory Hub-and-Spoke Model Impact at Scale Impact Evaluation Insider-Outsider Leadership Institution Building Institutional Leadership Institutionalization Internal Monitoring International Development Last-Mile Distribution Networks Launch Process Localization / Localization 2.0 LogFrame Logic Model Long-Term Sustainability Longitudinal Research Mainstreaming Market-Based Solutions Mixed-Methods Research Movement Building Multi-Stakeholder Delivery Narrative Change Network Mapping Non-Experimental Research OKRs (Objectives and Key Results) Outcome Evaluation Outsourced / Contracted Delivery Paradigm Shift Participatory Action Research Participatory Leadership Participatory Monitoring Performance Dashboards / KPIs Philanthropic Stewardship Pilot Projects Policy Leadership Policy Reform Power Mapping Problem Discovery Problem Tree / Solution Tree Mapping Process / Implementation Evaluation Process Monitoring Proximate Leadership Public Provision Public-Private Partnerships Qualitative Research Quantitative Research Quasi-Experimental Research Real-Time Monitoring Replication Resilience Results Monitoring Results-Based Management Scaling Pathways Scenerio Planning Sector Mapping Sector Transformation Servant Leadership Shared (Lived) Experience Shared Proximity Shared Trust Shared Value Six Conditions of Systems Change Social Advantage Social Enterprise Delivery Social Entrepreneurship Social Goods Social Impact Social Innovation Social Return on Investment Social Systems Stakeholder Mapping Summative Evaluation Sustainability at Scale Sustainable Development Systems Change Systems Leadership Systems Mapping Theory of Change Thought Leadership Transactional Research Transformational Leadership Transformative Scale Triple Bottom Line Validation Cycle Value Chain Mapping Volunteer-Led Models Voucher / Subsidy Models
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