FOUNDATIONAL CHANGE CYCLE TOOLS
These resources provide foundational resources and core concepts to help progress your collaborative change journey and strengthen practice.
FACILITATOR TOOLS
These practical and interactive tools are for hands-on use in your collaborative change practice. They are designed to help overcome hurdles and make progress together and are relevant across all phases of the collaborative change cycle.
Tools & Resources
Welcome to the Platform C Resource Hub!
This library of helpful tools and resources was curated from thought leaders and change-makers around the world. We are working continuously to add helpful information.
If you find something that you want to share, that fits into a specific Phase or Layer of the Collaborative Chance Cycle, please send a link to us here
This resource is a field guide to the use of participatory and other research tools by Aboriginal research practitioners in Australia.
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1. Readiness RunwayThis resource explains the importance of allowing the process and results of collaboration to emerge, as distinct from applying pre-set solutions.
3. Creating a Shared VisionThis resource provides a framework for considering ethics, privacy and safety when engaging community members in design, research and evaluation activities.
A paper by Mark Cabaj on evaluating scaling efforts.
4. Scaling UpA 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…
5. Achieving TransformationThis resource provides detailed instructions for practitioners to create an actor map, which is a visual depiction of the key organizations and individuals that influence a topic or system.
2. Building the FoundationsA 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.
This resource describes seven elements of cross sector partnership formation.
This resource provides a process for developing questions that lead to new insights, ideas and solutions.
This resource includes an overview of what a common agenda is, and a five-step guide for developing a common agenda with others.
This tool will help you to: • Critically examine the dynamics relating to an important issue in your initiative. • Think differently about the challenge/initiative and your role in it. • Identify new means of and opportunities to exercise leadership.
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This tool will help you to identify how ready your system (group, community or organisation) is for collaboration and adaptation. It can also be modified to help you assess readiness for tackling complex challenges.
2. Building the FoundationsThis tool will help you to map and interpret stakeholder dynamics in your initiative. This tool can be useful at the start of an initiative when you are working out the ‘lay of the land’, if things go wrong, if there is conflict, or if you are not making progress.
3. Creating a Shared VisionThis resource articulates four steps in aligning collective effort.
Change Cycle Locator Tool
Take the quick survey to work out where you are on your change journey and access information specific to your needs