Growing Interest in Agency of the Future Project
Regional settlement umbrella organizations, CISSA-ACSEI, CIC officials and P2P researchers are meeting on September 16th to discuss the Agency of the Future initiative. This follows an earlier meeting in June that confirmed the viability of basic project concepts with sector and government leaders. To set the stage for September’s meeting and to respond to participant comments, a revised paper was developed adding detail about the proposed innovation machinery and how it would be managed. This paper is attached.
The Agency of the Future initiative aims to equip settlement agencies and their umbrella associations with an ability to respond to the environmental and policy changes that are profoundly affecting their opportunity landscape. This will require the sector to re-conceptualize its ‘business model’ and to bolster its collective capacity to identify, analyze and build on promising and innovative practices and partnerships developed by its members. The way forward implicates both individual agencies and umbrella associations. It also implicates governments that have a shared interest in bolstering the capacity of the settlement sector in areas where it enjoys a comparative advantage over other organizations. Lastly, it implicates the Pathways to Prosperity Partnership which is committed to the necessary intellectual investments that will be required to drive the innovation machinery.
