The Six Lessons of Do No Harm identified the information necessary and factors to consider in order to understand how an intervention affects a context. The Do No Harm Relationship Framework visually shows the elements and their relationships.

The arrows in the Relationship Framework show the flow of effects from the intervention into the context.

Building the Relationship Framework from the Six Lessons

1. Whenever an intervention enters a context it becomes part of the context.
    
   The intervention is placed in the middle, under the context, representing that it is now part of the context.

 

2. All contexts are characterized by Dividers and Connectors. 
    
   The context already has Dividers and Connectors. The intervention is between them.

 

3. All interventions interact with both, either making them worse or making them better. 
    
   The arrows flow from the intervention to Dividers and Connectors because the intervention is having an impact on both. That impact can be negative—Dividers get worse by increasing (an up arrow); Connectors get worse by decreasing (a down arrow). That impact can be positive—Dividers get better by decreasing (a down arrow); Connectors get better by increasing (an up arrow).

 

4. Actions and Behaviors have Consequences, which create impacts.
    
   The flow from the Intervention to Dividers and Connectors is the ABCs. Resources and Messages flow from the intervention into the context. These affect Dividers and Connectors, making them either worse or better.

 

5. The details of interventions matter. 
    
   Conceptually, within the Framework, this lesson applies earlier as it is integral to understanding the Intervention.

 

6. There are always Options.
    
   Where we see impacts from the intervention, we develop Options to counter the negative ones. We can also attempt to support the positive ones further.

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