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.