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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 helps collaborators to identify and agree upon indicators of success using examples, questions to guide use, and additional resources.

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3. Creating a Shared Vision

This website provides tools and seminars about developing a shared measurement framework. FSG has a lot of great resources. 

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3. Creating a Shared Vision

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.

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3. Creating a Shared Vision

For a really useful explanation on the difference between shared measurement and evaluation, read the following blog. 

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3. Creating a Shared Vision

This resource provides a framework for considering ethics, privacy and safety when engaging community members in design, research and evaluation activities.

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3. Creating a Shared Vision

A paper by Mark Cabaj on evaluating scaling efforts.

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4. Scaling Up

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…

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5. Achieving Transformation

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.

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3. Creating a Shared Vision

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.

Collaboration for Impact

3. Creating a Shared Vision

4. Scaling Up

5. Achieving Transformation

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

Clear Horizon

4. Scaling Up

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

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

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5. Achieving Transformation

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.

Clear Horizon

3. Creating a Shared Vision

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.

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3. Creating a Shared Vision

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

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