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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.

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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. 

Clear Horizon

4. Scaling Up

The multi-level perspective (MLP) is a framework for describing transition processes in complex socio-technical systems. This canvas is designed to help participants think about change on these different levels and how it can be used to enable disruptive innovation.

Systems Innovation

2. Building the Foundations

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

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2. Building the Foundations

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…

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2. Building the Foundations

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

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4. Scaling Up

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

Better Evaluation

4. Scaling Up

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?

Clear Horizon

4. Scaling Up

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

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4. Scaling Up

This resource identifies different levels of thinking and intervention regarding systems, emphasising that most of what occurs, particularly root causes, sit below the surface.

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2. Building the Foundations

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.

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4. Scaling Up

More tools for evaluating complexity can be found here. 

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4. Scaling Up

This resource unpacks key concepts of ‘co-design’ and explains how the range of design-based traditions that sit under the co-design banner have something very important to bring to social innovation. 

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2. Building the Foundations

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

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4. Scaling Up

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