1/2 Thanks so much for sharing this – there is a lot to chew on, and I really see the ambition in re‑imagining the tools. My experience, though, is that H1 has a remarkable capacity to colonise spaces that were meant for change and to re‑domesticate imagination; right now that pull back to “business as usual” feels even stronger than before. I totally understand why people want “the plan”. But there is real power, for me, in using the Three Horizons process to hold the tension rather than to fully map the pathway. H2 is a battlefield: a space where we name frictions, contradictions and possibilities and keep them visible, without immediately turning them into a managed trajectory, while still thinking about how we might respond to emerging options as they surface.
RE: Foresight Meets Reality: Using Three Horizons to build a Gender-Responsive, Human Rights-Based, and LNOB Results-Oriented Theory of Change
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Silva Ferretti
Freelance consultant
Posted on 08/03/2026
1/2 Thanks so much for sharing this – there is a lot to chew on, and I really see the ambition in re‑imagining the tools. My experience, though, is that H1 has a remarkable capacity to colonise spaces that were meant for change and to re‑domesticate imagination; right now that pull back to “business as usual” feels even stronger than before.
I totally understand why people want “the plan”. But there is real power, for me, in using the Three Horizons process to hold the tension rather than to fully map the pathway. H2 is a battlefield: a space where we name frictions, contradictions and possibilities and keep them visible, without immediately turning them into a managed trajectory, while still thinking about how we might respond to emerging options as they surface.