Envisioning future development

Reframing development process
Enabling effective future visioning
Anticipating future development

Description

Envisioning future development involves systematically identifying long-term goals and potential scenarios to guide decision-making and resource allocation. This strategy enables organizations and communities to anticipate emerging challenges, adapt to changing conditions, and proactively address risks such as resource scarcity, technological disruption, or social inequality. By fostering collaborative foresight and strategic planning, it remedies short-termism and fragmented efforts, ensuring sustainable progress and resilience in the face of uncertainty.

Claim

A fresh vision of development is vital. The current crisis in development approaches raises the question of the connections between world economic trends and the values and behaviour of individuals and societies. The uncertainties hanging over the future of developing and industrialized countries alike are not only economic. They are to an equal, if not greater, extent ethical and cultural.