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Needs
- Lack of direction
- Conflicts
- Ecosystem approach
Solution
What is Foresight?
Foresight is a systematic, participatory, future-intelligence-gathering and medium-to-long-term vision-building process aimed at enabling present-day decisions and mobilizing joint actions. It can be envisaged as a triangle combining “Thinking the Future”, “Debating the Future” and “Shaping the Future”.
Foresight is neither prophecy nor prediction. It does not aim to predict the future – to unveil it as if it were predetermined – but to help us build it. It invites us to consider the future as something that we can create or shape, rather than as something already decided.
Foresight enhances existing policy and planning methods:
- by broadening our horizon;
- by opening up space for other stakeholders in the future and
- by offering a platform to start negotiating values, perspectives and vested interests right from the beginning of our response to or initiation of change.
How to use
www.undp.org – manual
Amy Webb 20 Books and Articles to Get You Started in Strategic Foresight – books