Tools & Resources

This tool will help you to identify what you are trying to achieve, how you will achieve it, how you will know you’ve made a difference, and how you will continuously adapt and improve your practice.  

This tool will help you to identify: • Factors that have contributed to the change you seek. • Evidence demonstrating the contribution. • The strength of the contribution. • Identify new means of and opportunities to exercise leadership.

John Kania shares insights into why Collective Impact and Systems Change efforts are most powerful when they are conducted at a place-based level. This is an excerpt of a video interview in 2020 with John Kania by CFI Director, Kerry Graham.

John Kania introduces the six conditions of systems change framework. An excerpt of a video interview in 2020 with John Kania by CFI Director, Kerry Graham.

This resource supports practitioners to think through key moments for community members as they participate in the initiative being developed (e.g. from first contact, to participation, to leadership).

This resource provides practical guidance on how to and when to engage in horizontal management, which is concerned with working collaboratively across organisational boundaries.

This resource provides a guide to using the Most Significant Change (MSC) method, together with an MSC story collection guide.

This resource provides a guide to the Most Significant Learning Technique, which is an adaption of the Most Significant Change Technique, and helps to surface assumptions and workshop key lessons. 

This resource is a framework for focused conversations with groups in order to reach agreement and/or clarify differences.

This resource provides a framework, together with more than 80 methods and tools, for evaluating place-based work in the Australian context.

This resource helps collaborators to scope a Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning (MEL) plan for place-based initiatives, drawing on Clear Horizon’s standard MEL planning tools.

A Place-based Evaluation Framework and Toolkit, co-commissioned by the Department of Social Services and Queensland Government Department of Communities, Disability Services and for evaluating place-based delivery approaches. The toolkit has over 80 methods and tool to choose from.

M.Q. Patton, an American evaluator whose approaches and tools are recognised and used to evaluate place-based initiatives, has identified a useful set of principles for evaluation, which are Effectiveness Principles. More resources including a webinar  on the…

Logan Together’s 2018 Progress report is an example of the type of reporting that can be achieved through the measurement and learning effort.

This resource is designed to help those interested or involved in a particular cross-sector collaboration better understand the complexities and nuances of the initiative.