The IDEMS Principle

David and Lily discuss the principle Sustainable Development: “This principle touches on the desire for longevity. It forces the company to think beyond any given intervention and to always plan for continued development post-intervention.” They emphasise the importance of creating long-lasting solutions beyond initial interventions and highlight how IDEMS’ focus on sustainable development involve...

David and Santiago discuss the principle Viral Scaling: “This principle relates to how the company aims to achieve impact at scale. It can be interpreted as focusing on initiatives that have the potential spread naturally.” They emphasise how initiatives can achieve exponential growth by spreading organically and illustrate this with examples from their work with African universities.

David and Santiago discuss the principle Scalable Impact: “This principle is central to the company vision. It pushes thinking to go beyond just finding individual solutions towards understanding how those solutions can be replicated.” They explain how IDEMS strives to design solutions that are not only effective locally but can also be adapted and implemented in other contexts.

Danny and David discuss the first set of principles: Scalable Impact. They present all the principles in this set, and discuss how they relate to each other, their motivation and history.

IDEMS’ 20 principles are grouped into 5 sets of 4. Lily and David explore the reasons behind these groupings and discuss how people can engage in this podcast series about our principles.

Lucie and David explore how principle focused evaluation can help monitor whether the company stays true to its ideals and evaluate whether these are useful ideals (or principles).

Santiago and David discuss David’s first experience of the principled approach and why he believes it is a useful tool.

IDEMS directors Kate, David and Danny introduce the podcast series and how it came about.