Step 4: Identify domains of change
Now the current situation has been explored and mapped, we need to identify the domains where important changes have to take place in order to achieve the overall desired change.
Identifying the domains of change helps to make the complexity more manageable, and to determine what matters for the desired change, and for the people who we hope will benefit from that change. It enables us to decide where best to intervene.
To make the desired change possible, changes usually need to happen simultaneously in many different domains and amongst different groups of stakeholders. For example, changes may be needed in formal institutions and the behaviours and relationships of actors involved in those, like the legal system; changes in the behaviour and relationships that shape people’s participation in political processes; changes in the norms and values people have about sexuality; changes in the attitudes of service providers, etc. These changes are substantial, beyond the control of any single actor, and often need to happen in parallel in order to reach the desired change.
