Build a fundable case for your work. This self-paced course equips NGOs and community organisations to structure programmes, create reusable proposal templates, develop realistic budgets and engage funders across multiple funding opportunities.

Reimagine your career, reconnect with purpose and shape the future you want to live and lead. Designed for professionals in transition, this course brings futures and foresight into personal and professional change.

Work on your own project over 10 days and three live sessions to develop a clear implementation pathway. Map actors, relationships, risks and leverage points to guide your next steps. Bring a new idea or active programme; no prior systems knowledge needed.

A practical systems facilitation course for leaders working across organisations, sectors and communities. Learn to read system dynamics, align diverse actors and strengthen collaboration where no single organisation holds control.

A practical course in climate systems facilitation. Learn to map system dynamics, engage diverse actors and guide collaboration across sectors to design coordinated, systemic responses to climate challenges.

A practical introduction to futures facilitation in civic and community spaces. Learn to guide participatory conversations using drivers of change, scenario building and backcasting, enabling groups to explore alternative futures and turn insights into collective action.

In just 11 minutes and 27 seconds, this mini-masterclass explores the practical value of strategic foresight, our four-phase model for transformation, and tools such as horizon scanning and scenario mapping to strengthen how your team thinks, decides and leads.

Part of the series Complex Adaptive Systems, this course explores how interdependent strategies and interactions shape market outcomes, and why adaptive business models such as Amazon’s succeed. Designed for professionals, strategists, economists, policymakers and business leaders.

Discover strategic foresight with Arsène Ngombe. Reframe the future as a system shaped by today, challenge bias through “reperception”, and connect thinking ahead with planning, doing and learning to make more informed decisions.

Explore our agriculture and food systems publications to access applied insights and frameworks for building more resilient and adaptive food systems.

Discover our futures and foresight publications for perspectives and methods that help organisations anticipate change and shape long-term direction.

Download our health systems publications for practical insights and tools to strengthen resilient, inclusive systems.

Explore how four pillars of systems thinking can guide African civil society from competition and fragmentation towards collaboration, shared intelligence and collective power.

Download our systems thinking and complexity publications to explore concepts and tools for addressing interconnected challenges.

Download our youth entrepreneurship publications for practical insights and lessons drawn from on-the-ground initiatives supporting young innovators.

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. Practical tools, real stories and guided exercises build the skills to uncover root causes, design lasting responses and become a systems change practitioner.

For funders, academics and practitioners, this book brings systems and equity lenses to impact evaluation, revealing patterns, power dynamics and unintended effects that output-focused approaches often miss.

Leading Systems Change in Public Health equips African health professionals, policymakers and community leaders with systems thinking tools, case studies and exercises to understand persistent challenges and design practical responses to fragmentation, resource constraints and competing priorities.

A practical guide for facilitators, leaders and changemakers addressing fragmentation, recurring problems and poor alignment. It combines systems thinking and creative design, with tools and examples to map systems, align stakeholders and co-create interventions for lasting impact.

A practical guide for professionals leading change across government, business, civil society and communities. Using the SIF® approach, it offers tools to diagnose root causes, align diverse actors and design lasting change where silos, conflicting incentives and weak coordination stall progress.

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.

A practical toolkit for African CSOs, movements and community organisations working with uncertainty. Using Systems Informed Foresight® (SIF®), it offers guidance and ready-to-use templates to explore drivers of change, map tensions, build scenarios and design adaptive responses.

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 various tools 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.

For CSO leaders, practitioners and funders in the DRC and South Africa, this book examines how shrinking civic space, declining funding and pressures on democratic participation demand new approaches to funding, collaboration and strategy.

From Aid to Agency explores systemic investing in Africa, blending local wisdom and global innovation. It offers investors, policymakers and changemakers practical insights to direct capital towards resilient, self-reliant systems and development on Africa’s own terms.

Examines how value OEM entry, financing partnerships and shifting fleet economics are reshaping South Africa’s medium commercial vehicle market. A systems-informed perspective for fleet operators, finance institutions and market intelligence practitioners responding to competitive shifts ahead of the next replacement cycle.

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 disruptions beyond concession boundaries affect production, insurability and financing confidence. A concise risk intelligence brief for mining operators, insurers and investors.

This brief examines how policy shifts, battery demand and supply-chain dynamics are moving Africa’s lithium sector towards industrial participation. It outlines opportunities in processing, infrastructure and technology, guiding investor positioning and identifying intelligence gaps before capital deployment.

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 examines how climate variability disrupts supply reliability before total production declines. A concise risk intelligence brief for processors, lenders, traders and insurers assessing contract performance and financing confidence in smallholder-linked markets.

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.