The SAVES set of categories was developed by Do No Harm users because other sets were not as functional for their purposes. People use the following categories for three reasons:

  • They encourage brainstorming. If you consider these categories and what people are doing, you will not leave out something important
  • They help to organize information and to identify relationships
  • They force disaggregation—if something fits in more than one, you can unpack it

Systems and Institutions

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I visited a high school in Kosovo in the early ’00s where Albanian speaking students went to school in the morning and Serbian speaking students went to school in the afternoon.
 
Not only does this lead to worse educational outcomes for all the students (only being in school half-time), the messages being sent to students and parents emphasize competition rather than cooperation, and suspicion rather than trust.

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