Tools & Resources

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. 

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 3 looks at common patterns of behaviour that you can expect to find in these kinds of collaborations – and how recognising and talking about them openly assists partnering. Deep Collaboration is a way of working that was created by First Nations and other Multicultural Australians to find…

Step 5 of Deep Collaboration looks at the nuanced skills of facilitating ‘Hot spots’ – naturally occurring points of tension signalling potential breakthrough in a collaboration. Deep Collaboration is a way of working that was created by First Nations and other Multicultural Australians to…

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.

Working with conflict is important in the work of Deep Collaboration – and challenging. This video discusses ‘Hotspots’ – what they look and feel like and what to do when they happen. Deep Collaboration is a way of working that was created by First Nations and other Multicultural Australians…

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 contains a curated a list of papers, tools and resources for effective community engagement and movement building.

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…

This resource describes successful community leadership development programs through which governments, social purpose organisations and communities can help build leadership capacity.

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.

This resource provides a comprehensive ‘how to’ guide for forming, running, and harnessing the benefits of working groups.

This 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.