Ebooks, Toolkits and Guides

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A Mini Guide to Designing Fundable Work

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This mini guide helps you understand how funders evaluate proposals and how to structure your work so it makes sense to them. It walks you through clarifying your idea, building strong programme logic, and organising core proposal sections you can reuse across multiple funding opportunities.

  • $29.24

Blueprints for Designing Impact, Leadership and Systems Change

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Blueprints for Designing Impact brings together three essential guides for changemakers: Evaluating Complexity, Impact by Design, and Systemic Design in Action. Rooted in systems thinking and practical tools, this bundle equips you to uncover root causes, design innovative solutions, and apply them effectively in real-world challenges.

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CIVIC SCENARIO BUILDING TOOLKIT An Applied Guide Using Systems Informed Foresight

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A practical toolkit for African civic actors to make sense of uncertainty and take strategic action. Using Systems Informed Foresight (SIF), you’ll explore drivers, map tensions, build scenarios, and design adaptive responses. Includes clear guidance and ready-to-use templates for teams, workshops, and strategic planning, ideal for CSOs, movements, and community organisations working in complex environments.

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Evaluating Complexity: Systems Approach to Impact Evaluation

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Evaluating Complexity: Systems Approach to Impact Evaluation invites funders, academics, and practitioners to move beyond checklists and logframes toward a richer understanding of how change truly happens. Grounded in systems thinking and equity, it offers practical tools and reflective mindsets to uncover hidden patterns, power dynamics, and ripple effects that shape lasting impact.

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From Aid to Agency: Systemic Investing and Africa's Path to Self-Reliance

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From Aid to Agency reimagines Africa’s development journey through the lens of systemic investing, where capital fuels transformation, not dependency. Blending local wisdom with global innovation, it offers practical insights for investors, policymakers, and changemakers to build resilient, self-reliant systems and unlock Africa’s potential on its own terms.

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Impact by Design: The African Young Leader’s Playbook for Systems Change

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Impact by Design is a hands-on guide for young African leaders ready to move beyond surface solutions and create lasting change. Rooted in systems thinking, it offers practical tools, stories, and exercises to help you uncover root causes, design innovative responses, and lead with purpose. More than a workbook, it’s your pathway to becoming a true systems change maker.

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Leading Systems Change in Public Health: A Workbook for African Public Health Professionals

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Leading Systems Change in Public Health equips African health professionals, policymakers, and community leaders to move beyond quick fixes and drive lasting systems change. Featuring practical tools, real-world case studies, and a step-by-step leadership toolkit, this workbook helps you think systemically, collaborate effectively, and lead sustainable transformation in public health.

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Practitioner’s Guide to Systems Leadership for Cross-Sector Collaboration

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A practical guide for anyone shaping change in complex systems. Learn the Systems Leadership Pathway aligned to the Systems Informed Foresight® (SIF®) Framework, apply systems-thinking tools, align diverse actors, design pathways for change, and lead systemic impact through the SIF® Sense–Shape–Shift approach. Packed with insights, tools, and facilitation exercises you can use immediately, all for $7.50.

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Systemic Design in Action - A Practical Guide for Facilitating System Transformation in Organisations and Communities

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Systemic Design in Action is a practical guide for facilitators, leaders, and changemakers ready to navigate complexity with confidence. Blending systems thinking and creative design, it offers visual tools, facilitation guides, and real-world examples to help groups co-create sustainable solutions and drive meaningful transformation in organisations and communities.

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The Systems Change Toolkit

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The Systems Change Toolkit gives you practical tools and methods to work across all Six Conditions of Systems Change. Learn to shift structural elements like policies, practices, and resource flows while transforming relationships, power dynamics, and mental models for lasting systemic impact.