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Actor Mapping Canvas

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Use this canvas to map all the key actors influencing your system; formal and informal leaders, partners, funders, communities, critics, and resisters. It helps you understand their intentions, mindsets, incentives, and power sources so you can build coalitions, navigate dynamics, and engage more strategically for system-wide change.

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Agriculture and Food Systems Resources

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Access free resources on agriculture and food systems by RIAHSAH Co and Systems Futures

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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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Futures and Foresight Resources

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Health Systems Resources

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Access resources on public health, community care and health systems by RIAHSAH Co and Systems Futures

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Iceberg Framework Canvases

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These Iceberg Canvases turn systems thinking into practical, easy-to-use workshop tools. Move from events to patterns, structures, and mental models to uncover root causes and design better interventions. This set includes key “tools within a tool”; Behaviour-Over-Time Graphs, Connection Circles, and the Ladder of Inference for deeper systemic analysis.

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Iceberg Model Canvas

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This canvas helps you move beyond reacting to events by uncovering the deeper patterns, systemic structures, and mental models driving them. By exploring all four layers of the Iceberg Model, you discover where real leverage exists and design interventions that shift behaviours, beliefs, and long-term outcomes in your system.

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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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Mining, Climate and Energy Transition Resources

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Access resources on mining, climate and energy transition resources by RIAHSAH Co and Systems Futures.

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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 $19.99.

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Problem Framing Canvas

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A practical tool to help you deeply understand the issue you’re working on by surfacing symptoms, patterns, structures, and assumptions. It guides you to define the real problem, challenge mental models, and identify leverage points so you avoid superficial fixes and design interventions that truly shift the system.

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Systemic Design Canvases

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

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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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Systems Thinking Resources

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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.

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Two Loops Model Canvas

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This canvas helps you understand how old systems decline and new ones emerge. It shows pioneers, stabilisers, champions, and networks across the transition. Use it to honour what is ending, nurture what is beginning, and guide teams through uncertainty with clarity about where energy and opportunity are shifting.

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Youth Entrepreneurship Resources

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