Tools & Resources

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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 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

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

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3. Creating a Shared Vision

This resource will help you clearly articulate your ideas, identify key benefits for specific stakeholders, and reflect on what is required to go from idea to impact.

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3. Creating a Shared Vision

This resource will help you gather feedback that does not focus only on either criticism or praise, make it easy and more comfortable for others to provide input, and visually identify similarities or differences in feedback.

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3. Creating a Shared Vision

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

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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?

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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 explains that big visions can be too generic to develop actional strategies around, and thus advocates breaking them down into several smaller goals.

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5. Achieving Transformation

This resource describes the ABLe Change Framework for systems change, and provides a package of simple rules, processed and tools for applying the approach. 

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4. Scaling Up

This resource provides insight into five challenges of systems leadership and how we might respond to them.

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5. Achieving Transformation

The language and practice of place-based and community-led change in Australia: Building a shared understanding Collective Impact and community-led approaches have been increasingly adopted and applied by Australian governments recently, reflecting a desire to engage and work with the public…

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3. Creating a Shared Vision

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

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4. Scaling Up

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

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3. Creating a Shared Vision

More tools for evaluating complexity can be found here. 

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