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Theory of change essentials online | November, January
This interactive online course prepares you to develop a quality theory of change for your programme or organisation which meets industry-recognised quality standards as well as donors’ requirements. Learn how to develop a theory of change by working through the...
Beyond Command-and-Control Campaigns (NetChange)
While the directed-network campaigning model delegates the management of some important activities to its base, central leadership typically owns certain things like issue framing and storytelling that are critical to campaign success. Rapidly self-propagating protest...
Advocacy and policy change evaluation: Theory and practice (book)
This is the first book-length treatment of the concepts, designs, methods, and tools needed to conduct effective advocacy and policy change evaluations. The authors draw on over 30 years of evaluation experience; collective wisdom based on a new, large-scale survey of...
Three traps to avoid at your next meeting | Ed McKinley
Ed (GroupWork Institute of Australia) reflects: There’s a lot to be gained in digging a bit deeper into why you may be finding your meetings frustrating. People instantly get it when we encourage structure around meetings by emphasising the importance of Beginning,...
Creating and Sustaining Awareness of LGBTQI Rights
Join the New Tactics community for an online conversation on Creating and Sustaining Awareness of LGBTQI Rights from June 26-30, 2017. LGBTQI rights were only officially recognized as human rights by the United Nations in 2011. Since then the OHCHR’s Free & Equal...
Funding advocacy and policy change | Atlas learning project
Over the course of two years and hundreds of interviews with foundations, advocates, evaluators, and other experts, a consistent theme emerged around the need for foundations to be more aggressive and adaptive in their support for advocacy and policy change. This...
Networked change in Canada | Jason Mogus and Tom Liacas
This groundbreaking report maps out the strategies and practices that lie behind today’s most successful advocacy campaigns both in Canada and abroad. In the process, it demonstrates how and why they succeed in creating lasting change on the issues they address while...
Theory of Change Guidelines
A Theory of Change (ToC) approach helps in deepening your understanding – and that of your partners – of how you collectively think change happens and what the effect will be of your intervention. Not only does it show what political, social, economic,...
Theory of Change Online
Theory of Change Online (TOCO) is the only web-based software (no download required) that you can use to design and edit and store your Theory of Change, learn the concepts of theory of change, and capture your outcomes, indicators, rationales and assumptions in an...
Participatory Impact Pathways Analysis (Theories of Change)
People act on the basis of their understanding of how the world works – their ‘theories of action’. We do X because we believe, based on past experience or what we’ve read, that Y will happen. This applies to projects and programs as well. So it follows that if...
Developing a theory of change
A guide to developing a theory of change as a framework for inclusive dialogue, learning and accountability for social impact. The process of developing a theory of change is an exciting and often liberating process of interaction and discovery that helps...
The art of advocacy | The Democracy Center
At the Democracy Center, for nearly 25 years we have worked to support people all across the world with one area of activism especially – advocacy. That is a word with many different meanings. Most of all it means to have a specific objective in mind – passing a law...
Simple theory of change exercise
We use this exercise to jump start a group thinking about the changes they really hope to make, what will get them there, and most importantly, why. Sometimes it is helpful to start by drawing a vision for change for the top of the map, or the long-term goal (rather...
Knowledge tree
We have used the Knowledge Tree as a tool for doing a “learning review” or a systemization of what has been learned through for example past monitoring exercises, and more in-depth discussions with staff and community members. At the bottom of the tree are...
Road Journey: A community-friendly approach to Theory of Change thinking
This activity can take the shape of either a road, river, or even a chain of cenotes! We suggest inviting as diverse a group as possible, people from the community of course, but also community leaders, religious leaders, educators, other actors from NGOs and...
10 Things You Need to Build Clever Coalitions [Gemma Mortensen]
There are many ingredients that make up clever coalitions, and it is only in rare, heady moments that they all coexist perfectly together. The process requires stamina and patience on behalf of all involved. In my work at Crisis Action, an organization that builds...
Interview: Organizing to Learn, Learning to Organize
For decades the Highlander Center has been at the heart of some of our country’s most important social movements. In the 1930s it became the official training center for unions in the Congress of Industrial Organizations, the labor federation that organized millions...
MIT offer $250,000 for civil disobedience for the benefit of society
MIT are now accepting nominations for the first-ever MIT Media Lab Disobedience Award, which carries a $250,000 cash prize, no strings attached. This award will go to a person or group engaged in what we believe is an extraordinary example of disobedience for the...