Muza Olivia
African Centre of Excellence in Energy for Sustainable Development (ACE-ESD), College of Sciences and Technology (CST), University of Rwanda, P.O. Box 4285, Kigali, Rwanda.
Aivilo International (AI) Zimbabwe, Harare, Zimbabwe.
Heliyon. 2024 Apr 21;10(9):e29706. doi: 10.1016/j.heliyon.2024.e29706. eCollection 2024 May 15.
Learning from innovations that fail is imperative for innovations that succeed. The theoretical underpinnings for this innovative framing are reflexivity, transformative unlearning, and intelligent failure. This framework proposes a definition of "transformative governance" as governance that creates structural equities. Governments rebuilding their economies after the COVID-19 pandemic seek equitable green transformations; that are gendered, structural, and sustainable, learning from the implemented gender-sensitive responses (hereafter referred to as policy innovations) This paper argues that transformative practices, beliefs, values, assumptions, policies, and systematic learnings are complementary to post-crisis transformations. The aim is to promote systematic learnings from innovation governance failure regarding energy policy through the analysis of COVID-19 practices and the unlearning of policy innovation beliefs, values, and assumptions that are not transformative. I ask: how gender-equitable, structurally equitable, and green-transformative were the COVID-19 policy innovations? The study's approach is qualitative and situated within the constructivist research paradigm. It uses reflexive thematic analysis combined with innovative coded policy narrative and a transformative index-matching technique, to identify the gap within transformative interventions. The study included 58 policy innovations ( = 58) collected from the UNDP, KPMG, government reports, and news flashes from the three most populous nations in sub-Sahara Africa: Egypt, Nigeria, and South Africa. The study found that policy innovations were inequitable in terms of gender, structure, and sustainability whereas the derived transformative pathways are equitable and gender-transformative, structurally transformative, and green-transformative. The rationales behind a transformative approach to policy reflect the systemic failures across key areas: market dynamics, research and development, and green transformation. Policy innovators can align transformative pathways for innovative governance that implements transformative energy policy. To address the needs of multiple fragile and vulnerable identities, the derived post-pandemic framework is an intersectional plan with 10 policy learning pillars. The plan includes local energy transformation and reinforcement of energy justice components, such as the localization of the energy industry, community power, and social norms, including which translates to "I am because we are." Reengagement in global supply chains requires South-South trade relations to be restrategized.
从失败的创新中学习对于成功的创新至关重要。这种创新框架的理论基础是反思性、变革性忘却和明智的失败。该框架提出了“变革性治理”的定义，即创造结构性公平的治理。在新冠疫情后重建经济的各国政府寻求公平的绿色转型；这种转型具有性别视角、结构性且可持续，要从已实施的性别敏感应对措施（以下简称政策创新）中吸取经验。本文认为，变革性实践、信念、价值观、假设、政策和系统性学习与危机后转型相辅相成。其目的是通过分析新冠疫情应对措施以及摒弃非变革性的政策创新信念、价值观和假设，促进从能源政策创新治理失败中进行系统性学习。我提出疑问：新冠疫情政策创新在性别平等、结构公平和绿色转型方面的程度如何？该研究采用定性方法，处于建构主义研究范式之中。它运用反思性主题分析，结合创新编码政策叙事和变革性指数匹配技术，以识别变革性干预措施中的差距。该研究涵盖了从联合国开发计划署、毕马威、政府报告以及撒哈拉以南非洲人口最多的三个国家（埃及、尼日利亚和南非）的新闻快报中收集的58项政策创新（n = 58）。研究发现，政策创新在性别、结构和可持续性方面存在不公平现象，而推导得出的变革性路径具有公平性且是性别变革性、结构变革性和绿色变革性的。政策变革性方法背后的基本原理反映了关键领域的系统性失败：市场动态、研发和绿色转型。政策创新者可以为实施变革性能源政策的创新治理调整变革性路径。为满足多个脆弱和易受影响群体的需求，推导得出的疫情后框架是一个具有10个政策学习支柱的交叉性计划。该计划包括地方能源转型以及强化能源正义要素，如能源产业本地化、社区能源、社会规范等，其中包括体现为“我因我们而存在”的理念。重新融入全球供应链要求重新规划南南贸易关系。
