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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This resource is a field guide to the use of participatory and other research tools by Aboriginal research practitioners in Australia.

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1. Readiness Runway

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

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

This resource provides detailed instructions for practitioners to create an actor map, which is a visual depiction of the key organizations and individuals that influence a topic or system.

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2. Building the Foundations

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 describes seven elements of cross sector partnership formation.

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2. Building the Foundations

This resource provides a process for developing questions that lead to new insights, ideas and solutions.

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2. Building the Foundations

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1. Readiness Runway

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 tool will help you to: • Critically examine the dynamics relating to an important issue in your initiative. • Think differently about the challenge/initiative and your role in it. • Identify new means of and opportunities to exercise leadership.

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This tool will help you to identify how ready your system (group, community or organisation) is for collaboration and adaptation. It can also be modified to help you assess readiness for tackling complex challenges.

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1. Readiness Runway

2. Building the Foundations

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

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