Submit Your Failure Story

This is an invitation to confess by identifying and articulating developmental impact stories from the lens of failure. Dig deep into the apparent and not-so-apparent failures within successful interventions and successes within failed interventions.

Talk about your own (individual/organisational) failures. This exercise is to identify how one has failed with out assigning blame to a third party.
The three main failures that we are trying to identify are :
- Operational failures: Lack or inadequacy of human, time, financial or other resources
- Process failures: Breakdown of smaller internal processes within a program
- Model or Strategic failures: Inadequate understanding of the nature complexity of the problem
Begin with articulating the failure and then tracing it back. Asking yourself “why did this happen” at every stage.
Lets focus on accepting failure. Thereby we look at what happened, how it happened, and how the individual/organisation contributed or responded to it.
There are no right or wrong answers.

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1. Was the intervention an outright success or failure? What kind of failure was it?
(Operational failures, Process failures, Model or Strategic failures)

2. What worked in this intervention?

3. What failed in this intervention?

4. What was the overall objective of the intervention? What was the need gap/problem being addressed by the intervention? How was your intervention going to address the need gap/problem?

5. Why did this failure happen? Respond by asking asking yourself “why did this happen” at every stage of the answer

6. Who did this failure affect ultimately?

7. How would you conduct this intervention differently now that you have outlined the failure and the causes?

Submit Your Failure Story

This is an invitation to confess by identifying and articulating developmental impact stories from the lens of failure. Dig deep into the apparent and not-so-apparent failures within successful interventions and successes within failed interventions.

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