A systems mapping tool used in strategy sessions, stakeholder analysis, and programme design to understand who influences a system. It helps identify key actors, formal and informal leaders, partners, funders, communities, critics, and resisters, and examine their interests, incentives, mindsets, and sources of power. It supports building coalitions and engaging more strategically for system-wide change.

A strategic planning and foresight tool used in workshops, strategy sessions, and foresight labs to move from a defined future back to present-day action. It helps participants describe a preferred future, identify the conditions needed to reach it, and work backwards to map key shifts, experiments, and immediate steps. It supports structured planning in complex social, policy, and market contexts.

A practical Causal Layered Analysis (CLA) workshop canvas to analyse systems and redesign them from the inside out. Used in group sessions, strategy labs, and learning environments, it guides participants from visible issues to deeper beliefs, then flips those assumptions to reconstruct alternative futures. Designed for facilitators working on complex social, policy, or market challenges.

Examines how competitive dynamics in South Africa's medium commercial vehicle segment are being reshaped by value OEM market entry, financing partnerships and shifting fleet economics. For fleet operators, finance institutions and market intelligence practitioners seeking a systems-informed understanding of where competitive positions are shifting and how to respond before the next replacement cycle decides outcome.

Examines how finance shapes economic outcomes and why current structures drive inequality and environmental harm. For leaders, policymakers, and practitioners seeking a system-level understanding of finance and how it can support long-term value creation.

A practical Futures Wheel workshop canvas to map the consequences of change across a system. Used in group sessions, strategy labs, and learning environments, it guides participants from a selected signal through first-, second-, and third-order effects, then distills strategic insights on emerging risks and opportunities. Designed for facilitators working on complex social, policy, or market challenges.

A systems insight brief on how evidence systems are reshaping funding and decision-making for leaders managing multi-partner programmes. It examines how impact is validated, how credibility is assigned, and how these processes influence funding flows and coordination, using WWF-SA as a real-world signal for practical insight and action.

The Iceberg Framework is a facilitation-ready “tool of tools” designed to explore complexity beyond surface events. Structured across events, patterns, structures, and mental models, it integrates tools like Behaviour-Over-Time Graphs, Connection Circles, and the Ladder of Inference to guide deeper systemic conversations, uncover insights, and support more informed and strategic action.

The Iceberg Canvas helps you understand how visible events are driven by deeper patterns, underlying structures, and mental models shaping system behaviour, enabling more informed decisions. It is ideal for facilitators addressing systemic challenges, helping uncover where real leverage lies to design interventions that shift behaviours, beliefs, and long-term outcomes.

Download our mining, climate, and energy transition publications for practical insights and approaches in the sector.

Operational Flood Disruption Exposure in Copperbelt Mining Corridors (DRC–Zambia) examines how rainfall-linked disruption outside concession boundaries affects production continuity, insurability and financing confidence. A concise risk intelligence brief for operators, insurers and investors seeking clearer visibility on operational reliability in climate-variable environments.

Africa’s lithium sector is shifting from extraction to industrial participation. This brief explains how policy changes, expanding battery demand, and supply-chain behaviour are reshaping investment value. It outlines emerging opportunities across processing, infrastructure, and technology, helping investors understand positioning choices and where deeper market intelligence is required before deploying capital.

This market intelligence brief examines how investment opportunities are emerging across African markets, particularly from the perspective of investors based outside the continent. The brief introduces a practical framework that helps investors interpret structural signals shaping African markets today.

The Problem Framing Canvas helps you clearly define the problem before designing solutions. It guides you to articulate the issue, surface assumptions, explore different perspectives, and map what is happening. It sharpens problem definition so effort is directed at the right entry points and supports more focused decisions on where to intervene for meaningful systemic change.

A practical STEEPLE Horizon Scan workshop canvas to map signals of change shaping a system. Used in group sessions, strategy labs, and learning environments, it guides participants to identify emerging shifts across social, technological, economic, environmental, political, legal, and ethical dimensions, and assess why they matter. Designed for facilitators working on complex social, policy, or market challenges.

Supply Variability Exposure in East & Southern African Agricultural Value Chains explores how climate variability disrupts commercial supply reliability before affecting total production. A concise risk intelligence brief for processors, lenders, traders and insurers seeking clearer visibility on contract performance and financing confidence in smallholder-linked markets.

A full suite of tools for mapping complex systems, building shared understanding, and designing long-term solutions. The canvases help you frame systems, surface context, define desired futures, explore interventions, connect ideas, and plan transitions. They equip teams to co-create systemic change.

Examines ten structural issues driving inequality and environmental breakdown, showing how they reinforce each other within the economic system. For leaders, policymakers, and practitioners seeking a deeper understanding of how the economy produces these outcomes.

The Economic System introduces a structured way to understand how value, power, and flows shape the environment in which businesses operate.

A strategic foresight tool used to make sense of change in a system and guide long-term planning. It maps current system performance (H1), emerging shifts and disruptions (H2), and the preferred future (H3). It helps teams identify transition gaps, question assumptions, and connect present actions to future direction.

A systems change tool used in strategy, transition design, and facilitation of complex change processes. It helps map how established systems decline while new systems emerge. It identifies actors and dynamics across both loops, including pioneers, stabilisers, champions, and networks. It supports recognising what is ending, what is emerging, and where energy is shifting to guide decisions in periods of uncertainty.

Impact by Design is a hands-on guide for young African leaders working in complex, interconnected systems. It combines practical tools, real stories, and guided exercises to help you uncover root causes and design responses that last. More than a workbook, it’s a pathway to becoming a systems change maker.

This book is for funders, academics, and practitioners assessing social and development impact in complex systems. It challenges traditional evaluation that focuses on isolated outputs and misses how change unfolds across time, relationships, and systems. It applies systems and equity lenses to impact evaluation, offering tools to surface patterns, power dynamics, and unintended effects.

Leading Systems Change in Public Health is a practical guide for African health professionals, policymakers, and community leaders working within fragmented systems, resource constraints, and competing priorities. It offers systems thinking tools, real case studies, and guided exercises to help you understand what drives persistent challenges and design responses that work in practice.

This Guide is for facilitators, leaders, and changemakers working with organisations and communities facing fragmentation, recurring problems, and poor alignment that block lasting change. It blends systems thinking and creative design to support transformation. It provides tools, guides, and examples to co-create solutions, align stakeholders, map systems, and design interventions for lasting impact.

This Guide is for professionals leading change where government, business, civil society, and communities must work together. It gives a practical pathway to lead differently when silos, conflicting incentives, and weak coordination stall progress. Teaches how to diagnose root causes, align diverse actors, apply systems-thinking tools, and design pathways for lasting change using the SIF® approach for systemic impact

This self-paced course helps NGOs and community organisations turn their work into a fundable case. It shows how to structure programmes, build a reusable proposal template, develop realistic budgets, engage funders, and prepare strong grant applications. You leave with a clear, practical framework that can be applied across multiple funding opportunities.

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.

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.

This toolkit helps African civic actors make sense of uncertainty and take strategic action. Using the Systems Informed Foresight®(SIF®) approach, it offers practical ways to explore drivers, map tensions, build scenarios, and design adaptive responses. With clear guidance and ready-to-use templates, it’s ideal for CSOs, movements, and community organisations working in complex civic environments.

This course introduces futures and foresight and shows you how to apply them in times of change. Reimagine your career, reconnect with purpose, and design the future you want to live and lead. For professionals in transition, it goes beyond strategy, bringing together identity, leadership, and future-building as part of a deeper personal and professional shift.

Over 10 days and three live sessions, you will work on one real project to understand the system it sits in, actors, relationships, constraints, risks, and leverage points, and decide how it should be implemented. Bring a new or active idea or programme. No prior systems knowledge needed. You leave with a clear pathway you can implement in a real context.

A practical systems facilitation course for leaders working across organisations, sectors, and communities. It builds the skills to work with complexity, align diverse actors, and strengthen collaboration where no single organisation holds control. You learn how to read system dynamics, support shared direction, and guide networks through uncertainty and change. Take this course and become a SIF® Practitioner.

A practical learning journey for working with complexity in climate systems. It builds facilitation skills to map system dynamics, understand interconnections, engage diverse actors, and support collaboration across sectors. The course helps you design and guide interventions that respond to climate challenges in more coordinated and systemic ways.

A practical introduction for facilitators working in civic and community spaces. It builds the skills to guide structured futures conversations using drivers of change, key uncertainties, scenario building, and backcasting. The course supports you to hold participatory, grounded discussions that help groups explore alternative futures and translate insights into practical, collective action.

A practical course for professionals working within health systems in government, NGOs, and partner organisations. It builds the mindset and facilitation skills to understand system dynamics, map actors and relationships, and identify leverage points for change. You learn how to guide collaborative processes that support more coordinated and resilient health systems, grounded in real African contexts.

This self-paced course helps NGOs and community organisations turn their work into a fundable case. It shows how to structure programmes, build a reusable proposal template, develop realistic budgets, engage funders, and prepare strong grant applications. You leave with a clear, practical framework that can be applied across multiple funding opportunities.

This course introduces futures and foresight and shows you how to apply them in times of change. Reimagine your career, reconnect with purpose, and design the future you want to live and lead. For professionals in transition, it goes beyond strategy, bringing together identity, leadership, and future-building as part of a deeper personal and professional shift.

Over 10 days and three live sessions, you will work on one real project to understand the system it sits in, actors, relationships, constraints, risks, and leverage points, and decide how it should be implemented. Bring a new or active idea or programme. No prior systems knowledge needed. You leave with a clear pathway you can implement in a real context.

A practical systems facilitation course for leaders working across organisations, sectors, and communities. It builds the skills to work with complexity, align diverse actors, and strengthen collaboration where no single organisation holds control. You learn how to read system dynamics, support shared direction, and guide networks through uncertainty and change. Take this course and become a SIF® Practitioner.

A practical learning journey for working with complexity in climate systems. It builds facilitation skills to map system dynamics, understand interconnections, engage diverse actors, and support collaboration across sectors. The course helps you design and guide interventions that respond to climate challenges in more coordinated and systemic ways.

A practical introduction for facilitators working in civic and community spaces. It builds the skills to guide structured futures conversations using drivers of change, key uncertainties, scenario building, and backcasting. The course supports you to hold participatory, grounded discussions that help groups explore alternative futures and translate insights into practical, collective action.

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.

This Guide introduces the purpose, structure, and opportunities within the Network. It helps new members understand how the ecosystem works, how to engage in Labs, Studios, and research initiatives, and how to participate in a growing field of systems thinking and foresight practice.

Impact by Design is a hands-on guide for young African leaders working in complex, interconnected systems. It combines practical tools, real stories, and guided exercises to help you uncover root causes and design responses that last. More than a workbook, it’s a pathway to becoming a systems change maker.

This book is for funders, academics, and practitioners assessing social and development impact in complex systems. It challenges traditional evaluation that focuses on isolated outputs and misses how change unfolds across time, relationships, and systems. It applies systems and equity lenses to impact evaluation, offering tools to surface patterns, power dynamics, and unintended effects.

Leading Systems Change in Public Health is a practical guide for African health professionals, policymakers, and community leaders working within fragmented systems, resource constraints, and competing priorities. It offers systems thinking tools, real case studies, and guided exercises to help you understand what drives persistent challenges and design responses that work in practice.

This Guide is for facilitators, leaders, and changemakers working with organisations and communities facing fragmentation, recurring problems, and poor alignment that block lasting change. It blends systems thinking and creative design to support transformation. It provides tools, guides, and examples to co-create solutions, align stakeholders, map systems, and design interventions for lasting impact.

This Guide is for professionals leading change where government, business, civil society, and communities must work together. It gives a practical pathway to lead differently when silos, conflicting incentives, and weak coordination stall progress. Teaches how to diagnose root causes, align diverse actors, apply systems-thinking tools, and design pathways for lasting change using the SIF® approach for systemic impact

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.

This toolkit helps African civic actors make sense of uncertainty and take strategic action. Using the Systems Informed Foresight®(SIF®) approach, it offers practical ways to explore drivers, map tensions, build scenarios, and design adaptive responses. With clear guidance and ready-to-use templates, it’s ideal for CSOs, movements, and community organisations working in complex civic environments.

This book examines how shrinking civic space, declining funding, and pressure on democratic participation are reshaping the environment for CSOs in the DRC and South Africa. It highlights practical shifts in funding, collaboration, and operating approaches needed to remain effective. It is intended for leaders, practitioners, and funders who need to rethink strategy in constrained contexts.

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.

This mini-masterclass introduces the strategic foresight methods that forward-thinking organisations are using to stay ahead. In just 11 minutes and 27 seconds, you’ll explore the practical value of foresight, discover the four-phase model we use to guide transformation, and learn how tools like horizon scanning, and scenario mapping can shift how your team thinks, decides, and leads.

Discover strategic foresight with Arsene Ngombe. In this mini-course, reframe the future from “later” to a system shaped by today. Learn to anticipate change, improve current work, and explore new possibilities. Practice "reperception" to challenge bias, then connect future thinking to action through a simple loop: thinking ahead, planning, doing, and learning. Start making more informed, future-ready decisions now.

The purpose of this course is to equip youth-led ventures with the systemic and adaptive capabilities needed to design, manage, and deliver projects effectively in complex and evolving environments. It supports participants to respond to shifting conditions while staying grounded in context, ensuring projects remain relevant, coherent, and responsive throughout implementation.

Examines how competitive dynamics in South Africa's medium commercial vehicle segment are being reshaped by value OEM market entry, financing partnerships and shifting fleet economics. For fleet operators, finance institutions and market intelligence practitioners seeking a systems-informed understanding of where competitive positions are shifting and how to respond before the next replacement cycle decides outcome.

Download our mining, climate, and energy transition publications for practical insights and approaches in the sector.

Operational Flood Disruption Exposure in Copperbelt Mining Corridors (DRC–Zambia) examines how rainfall-linked disruption outside concession boundaries affects production continuity, insurability and financing confidence. A concise risk intelligence brief for operators, insurers and investors seeking clearer visibility on operational reliability in climate-variable environments.

Africa’s lithium sector is shifting from extraction to industrial participation. This brief explains how policy changes, expanding battery demand, and supply-chain behaviour are reshaping investment value. It outlines emerging opportunities across processing, infrastructure, and technology, helping investors understand positioning choices and where deeper market intelligence is required before deploying capital.

This market intelligence brief examines how investment opportunities are emerging across African markets, particularly from the perspective of investors based outside the continent. The brief introduces a practical framework that helps investors interpret structural signals shaping African markets today.

Supply Variability Exposure in East & Southern African Agricultural Value Chains explores how climate variability disrupts commercial supply reliability before affecting total production. A concise risk intelligence brief for processors, lenders, traders and insurers seeking clearer visibility on contract performance and financing confidence in smallholder-linked markets.

A systems mapping tool used in strategy sessions, stakeholder analysis, and programme design to understand who influences a system. It helps identify key actors, formal and informal leaders, partners, funders, communities, critics, and resisters, and examine their interests, incentives, mindsets, and sources of power. It supports building coalitions and engaging more strategically for system-wide change.

A strategic planning and foresight tool used in workshops, strategy sessions, and foresight labs to move from a defined future back to present-day action. It helps participants describe a preferred future, identify the conditions needed to reach it, and work backwards to map key shifts, experiments, and immediate steps. It supports structured planning in complex social, policy, and market contexts.

A practical Causal Layered Analysis (CLA) workshop canvas to analyse systems and redesign them from the inside out. Used in group sessions, strategy labs, and learning environments, it guides participants from visible issues to deeper beliefs, then flips those assumptions to reconstruct alternative futures. Designed for facilitators working on complex social, policy, or market challenges.

A practical Futures Wheel workshop canvas to map the consequences of change across a system. Used in group sessions, strategy labs, and learning environments, it guides participants from a selected signal through first-, second-, and third-order effects, then distills strategic insights on emerging risks and opportunities. Designed for facilitators working on complex social, policy, or market challenges.

The Iceberg Framework is a facilitation-ready “tool of tools” designed to explore complexity beyond surface events. Structured across events, patterns, structures, and mental models, it integrates tools like Behaviour-Over-Time Graphs, Connection Circles, and the Ladder of Inference to guide deeper systemic conversations, uncover insights, and support more informed and strategic action.

The Iceberg Canvas helps you understand how visible events are driven by deeper patterns, underlying structures, and mental models shaping system behaviour, enabling more informed decisions. It is ideal for facilitators addressing systemic challenges, helping uncover where real leverage lies to design interventions that shift behaviours, beliefs, and long-term outcomes.

The Problem Framing Canvas helps you clearly define the problem before designing solutions. It guides you to articulate the issue, surface assumptions, explore different perspectives, and map what is happening. It sharpens problem definition so effort is directed at the right entry points and supports more focused decisions on where to intervene for meaningful systemic change.

A practical STEEPLE Horizon Scan workshop canvas to map signals of change shaping a system. Used in group sessions, strategy labs, and learning environments, it guides participants to identify emerging shifts across social, technological, economic, environmental, political, legal, and ethical dimensions, and assess why they matter. Designed for facilitators working on complex social, policy, or market challenges.

A full suite of tools for mapping complex systems, building shared understanding, and designing long-term solutions. The canvases help you frame systems, surface context, define desired futures, explore interventions, connect ideas, and plan transitions. They equip teams to co-create systemic change.

Examines how finance shapes economic outcomes and why current structures drive inequality and environmental harm. For leaders, policymakers, and practitioners seeking a system-level understanding of finance and how it can support long-term value creation.

Examines ten structural issues driving inequality and environmental breakdown, showing how they reinforce each other within the economic system. For leaders, policymakers, and practitioners seeking a deeper understanding of how the economy produces these outcomes.

The Economic System introduces a structured way to understand how value, power, and flows shape the environment in which businesses operate.

A systems insight brief on how evidence systems are reshaping funding and decision-making for leaders managing multi-partner programmes. It examines how impact is validated, how credibility is assigned, and how these processes influence funding flows and coordination, using WWF-SA as a real-world signal for practical insight and action.