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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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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 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.  

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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 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).

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2. Building the Foundations

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 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

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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

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 is a compilation of tools and techniques for working in groups and facilitating meetings and workshops.

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1. Readiness Runway

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

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