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.

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CIVIC SCENARIO BUILDING TOOLKIT An Applied Guide Using Systems Informed Foresight

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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.

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Evaluating Complexity: Systems Approach to Impact Evaluation

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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.

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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 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.

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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 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.

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Practitioner Orientation Guide - Systems Futures

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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.

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

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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

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

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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.

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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.