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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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 explains the importance of allowing the process and results of collaboration to emerge, as distinct from applying pre-set solutions.

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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.

Clear Horizon

3. Creating a Shared Vision

A paper by Mark Cabaj on evaluating scaling efforts.

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4. Scaling Up

This resource describes successful community leadership development programs through which governments, social purpose organisations and communities can help build leadership capacity.

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3. Creating a Shared Vision

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

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3. Creating a Shared Vision

This resource includes an overview of what a common agenda is, and a five-step guide for developing a common agenda with others.

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3. Creating a Shared Vision

This resource provides a comprehensive ‘how to’ guide for forming, running, and harnessing the benefits of working groups.

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3. Creating a Shared Vision

This tool will help you to map and interpret stakeholder dynamics in your initiative. This tool can be useful at the start of an initiative when you are working out the ‘lay of the land’, if things go wrong, if there is conflict, or if you are not making progress.

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1. Readiness Runway

2. Building the Foundations

3. Creating a Shared Vision

This resource articulates four steps in aligning collective effort.

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4. Scaling Up

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 explains how identifying and understanding ‘positive deviance’ will help you understand the kind of solutions that can work in your community – with the resources that are already in place.

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3. Creating a Shared Vision

This resource introduces design research as an approach and set of methods that are particularly well suited to understanding the reality of people’s lives, what they want for the future and how the current situations help and hinder them.

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3. Creating a Shared Vision

This resource provides practical guidance on how to and when to engage in horizontal management, which is concerned with working collaboratively across organisational boundaries.

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4. Scaling Up

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