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Michel Maietta

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Michel is a strategic foresight professional, with expertise in strategy and organisational design and two decades of experience in the humanitarian and development sector. Former Director of Strategy at Save the Children International and Action Against Hunger, Michel founded and facilitates the Interagency Research and Analysis Network.

In addition to his work for aid organisations, Michel has been designing ad hoc training courses for humanitarian and development leaders for over a decade, teaching at Science Po, Deakin, Federico II Universities and in the Futuribles and IRIS Think Tanks, and training the humanitarian workers of tomorrow. When Michel is not conducting bespoke pieces of foresight work, he leads strategic and transformational projects.

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Unleashing Local Potential: Advancing Aid Localization in Ukraine
Unleashing Local Potential: Advancing Aid Localization in Ukraine

"Unleashing Local Potential: Advancing Aid Localization in Ukraine" delves into the critical importance of bringing power and resources closer to the communities in need. The article highlights the crisis in Ukraine as a turning point for advancing the localization agenda in humanitarian aid. By recognizing the capabilities of local actors and addressing the challenges they face, the article advocates for a transformative approach that empowers Ukrainian civil society and fosters effective localization of aid.

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Navigating the Resistance: Cultural Transformation in Humanitarian Organizations
Strategy, Change and Transformation, Foresight
Navigating the Resistance: Cultural Transformation in Humanitarian Organizations
Strategy, Change and Transformation, Foresight

Innovation in the humanitarian sector is a challenging journey, often hindered by cultural resistance. However, with a transformation strategy, leadership support, and a culture open to change, these obstacles can be overcome. Strategic foresight, which anticipates future trends and proactively develops solutions, can greatly enhance this process. External pressures, like the COVID-19 pandemic, can also catalyze cultural transformation, prompting organizations to rethink traditional ways and embrace innovation.

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Strategy, Change and Transformation, Foresight
Breaking the Short-Termism Trap
Strategy, Change and Transformation, Foresight
Breaking the Short-Termism Trap
Strategy, Change and Transformation, Foresight

The humanitarian ecosystem is failing to adapt to global transformations and new types of crises. This failure is rooted in the opportunistic nature of ODA flow governance and the entrenched value chain of formal humanitarian actors. To break free from this short-termism trap, the humanitarian ecosystem must shift its approach and values, prioritizing the needs and voices of those affected by humanitarian crises. Only then can it fulfill its potential to provide effective and lasting assistance.

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Strategy, Change and Transformation, Foresight
El dilema recurrente del COVID-19 y la trampa de la ultra-solución
Ecosystemic Crisis, Foresight, Strategy
El dilema recurrente del COVID-19 y la trampa de la ultra-solución
Ecosystemic Crisis, Foresight, Strategy

Acabar con los encierros es, como lo define Paul Watzlawick, “una ultra-solución”: un intento de arreglar un problema deshaciéndose de todo lo que tenga que ver con el mismo. Al caer en esta trampa, los gobiernos están utilizando la ultra-solución, arriesgándose a destruir tanto la economía, como la vida de las personas al final del túnel.


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Ecosystemic Crisis, Foresight, Strategy
The recurring COVID-19 dilemma and the ultra-solution trap
Ecosystemic Crisis, Foresight, Change and Transformation
The recurring COVID-19 dilemma and the ultra-solution trap
Ecosystemic Crisis, Foresight, Change and Transformation

Lockdowns are what Paul Watzlawick defines as “an ultra-solution”: an attempt to fix a problem by getting rid of it and everything that goes with it. Falling into this trap, governments are at risk of destroying both the economy and peoples lives.

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Ecosystemic Crisis, Foresight, Change and Transformation
Géopolitique de l'Homophobie
LGBTI, Change and Transformation, Localisation
Géopolitique de l'Homophobie
LGBTI, Change and Transformation, Localisation

L’homophobie est entendue comme les discriminations de tous ordres à l’encontre des personnes LGBT (lesbiennes, gays, bisexuelles et transgenres). Si «l’homophobie politique» est déjà connue en tant qu’outil de duplicité en politique intérieure, Michel Maietta explore davantage son pouvoir de manipulation, jusqu’à sa dimension géopolitique. L’auteur nous rappelle à quel point la protection des droits des personnes LGBT revêt une importance stratégique dans la défense plus large des droits de l’homme.

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LGBTI, Change and Transformation, Localisation
Using foresight to challenge the geopolitics of homophobia
LGBTI, Foresight, Strategy
Using foresight to challenge the geopolitics of homophobia
LGBTI, Foresight, Strategy

Is it possible to use foresight analysis to tackle the geopolitics of homophobia? Michel Maietta discusses the progress made so far and how the futures technique could be beneficial to decriminalizing homosexuality everywhere

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LGBTI, Foresight, Strategy
The barriers to transforming LGBTI social exclusion towards 2030
LGBTI, Research
The barriers to transforming LGBTI social exclusion towards 2030
LGBTI, Research

For many across the world, May 17th takes a pertinent and personal meaning since becoming accustomed, and widely accepted, as the International Day against Homophobia, Biphobia and Transphobia, or more commonly known, and such referred to in this blog, as IDAHOBIT. 

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LGBTI, Research
A chance to engage in frank dialogue with LGBTI
LGBTI, Localisation, Collective Intelligence
A chance to engage in frank dialogue with LGBTI
LGBTI, Localisation, Collective Intelligence

We give a retrospective analysis of the level of global LGBTI social exclusion following the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) in April.

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LGBTI, Localisation, Collective Intelligence
Shifting the Power: A Few Hard Truths on Localisation
Strategy, Collective Intelligence, Change and Transformation, Localisation
Shifting the Power: A Few Hard Truths on Localisation
Strategy, Collective Intelligence, Change and Transformation, Localisation

Many have said it before: localisation needs to stop being a talking point and start being a reality. But we have been saying this since the advent of capacity building. So do we really mean it? If so, how can we bring about localised change effectively, and swiftly?

Why localisation is no longer an 'if', but firmly, a 'when'.

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Strategy, Collective Intelligence, Change and Transformation, Localisation

The future awaits.