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TOOL
Building durable groups with low hierachies
Short description

Defining goals, structures, roles and means of decision making are all crucial parts of founding and maintaining collectives, cooperatives, and other groups. Many aspects of organisation however remain ad hoc, informal and opaque, creating the possibility of power imbalances, misunderstandings and exclusion. The link will lead you to website with key questions that any group should consider and define during its formation.

Unlock-hypothesis

Grassroot initiatives are drivers of change. Internal disagreements can weaken their position. Addressing key questions about how the group is organised can lead to more durable groups that are active over a long time.

Lock-in Layers

behavioural

Lock-in Cluster

Lack of Motivation/Intention & Habits

Tool maturity Level

TML5

Level of effort for application

low

Skill level needed for application

medium

Suitable spatial context

flexible

Spatial limitation

no

Target group

NGOs / local interest groups

Visualisation

Tool type

Vision

Languages

english