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The Systems Innovation Learning Partnership

What we do Learning by doing The Systems Innovation Learning Partnership

A collaboration between the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (Sida) and Climate KIC, the Systems Innovation Learning Partnership (SILP) explores how systems innovation can help us rethink our responses to some of the world’s most complex challenges.

From increasing the capacity of individuals and organisations to creating novel or alternative approaches to systemic challenges, SILP aims to embrace ideas outside our knowledge and build a community of practice for like-minded innovators and pioneers in the field.

SILP’s long-term vision is to influence international development cooperations to make transformative impact that shifts global power dynamics. Ultimately, we believe that systems innovation is a way to understand and address the underlying assumptions, habits, behaviours, and models that get in the way of change.

Through our varied and collaborative learning activities, we experiment with how systems innovation can be understood in action. 

Create communities

Bringing together learning practitoners to ensure connected dialogue and the growth of collective expertise.

Share learning

We encourage the mutual exchange of ideas between organisations and individuals for the collective good.

Advance knowledge

We support the premise of complex challenges being approached using the framework of systems innovation.

Build capacity

We convene environments that allow people to strengthen their mindset and develop leadership skills.

Learning activities

A graphic recording of day one of the festival

The Learning Festival is one of the ways we explore systems innovation by bringing together diverse organisations in a participatory space to share, discuss and exchange ideas.

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The SILP Experimentation Fund

In May 2023, the SILP Experimentation Fund welcomed a cohort of seven grantees and their innovative experiments in systems change.

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Redefining Development Funding
"Funding for learning requires rethinking the foundations of grantmaking."