Tools & Resources

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 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.

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 explains how prototyping can help you bridge the evidence gap by creating context specific evidence through experimentation. 

Rubrics are a useful tool for assessing performance, these can be co-designed with the community.

This resource describes the theory and objectives of reflection workshops, and provides a step-by-step guide to conducting them, based on three stages of evaluative thinking: What happened? So what? Now what?

This resource explores what the spread of social innovations looks like in contexts that go beyond organisational growth, such as replication and dissemination. 

This resource is a video that explains pivoting as changing strategy, not changing your vision, much like changing your route if you encounter an obstacle while driving.

A paper on Theory of Change for complex initiatives aiming at systems change.

More tools for evaluating complexity can be found here. 

This resource includes a six-step process for practitioners to understand and gather evidence of the contribution their work made to achieving observed outcomes.