Tools & Resources

This resource provides 18 insights for transforming systems.

This resource helps collaborators to identify and agree upon indicators of success using examples, questions to guide use, and additional resources.

This website provides tools and seminars about developing a shared measurement framework. FSG has a lot of great resources. 

This resource will help collaborative groups to better understand member motivation, and in doing so, develop a shared understanding of the collaborative task.

This resource allows collaborators to measure how they are working together via the completion of an online survey, on a one-off or longitudinal basis.

This resource provides a broad, multidisciplinary systematised review of literature on cross sector partnerships for systemic change.

Inevitably things happen in these type of collaborations – where people are hurt and relationships break down. This video touches on some ways you can recover and rebuild trust. Deep Collaboration is a way of working that was created by First Nations and other Multicultural Australians to find…

A key tool to depersonalise and look at systemic ‘voices’ or positions in the collaboration is by identifying ‘roles’. This video explores how to deepen the work by shifting or taking up other roles. Deep Collaboration is a way of working that was created by First Nations and other…

Step 4 introduces additional skills you can use once you understand the key roles & patterns of behaviour, including various techniques for facilitating collaboration and power dynamics in groups. Deep Collaboration is a way of working that was created by First Nations and other…

This video explores why being attentive to the atmosphere around the collaborative gathering – not just the content within – is important. Deep Collaboration is a way of working that was created by First Nations and other Multicultural Australians to find new ways to work and lead together.

Developmental Evaluation (DE) can be used to evaluate innovative initiatives in complex, dynamic environments, including a range of fields and international settings. Here is a webinar from the Tamarack Institute featuring M.Q. Patton and Mark Cabaj discussing Developmental Evaluation.

For a really useful explanation on the difference between shared measurement and evaluation, read the following blog. 

This resource explains the importance of allowing the process and results of collaboration to emerge, as distinct from applying pre-set solutions.

This resource provides a framework for considering ethics, privacy and safety when engaging community members in design, research and evaluation activities.

A good resource for evaluation is the Better Evaluation website. It offers information and links to many evaluation approaches, methods and tools. This website has been developed for program evaluation principally and you should therefore consider how you select and apply these resources to…

A 3-part series of downloadable handbooks that walks partners through the process of assessing progress and impact, provides case studies and examples, and sample questions, outcomes and indicators FSG guide for assessing progress and impact with example outcomes and indicators.