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Catholic Social Thought and Design Thinking: Putting the Option for the Poor Into Practice
American Journal of Economics and Sociology, volume 80, issue 4 (2021), pp. 1205-1231
"Catholic social thought offers a vision and principles for a community wherein all creation flourishes. An important principle in Catholic social thought is the option for the poor, which describes the commitment of the Catholic Church to the well-being of the marginalized and vulnerable. However,
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Effective consortia: A guide to emerging thinking and practice
Oxford; London: Partnering Initiative (TPI); Bond (2021), 71 pp.
Propulsorio
SembraMedia (2021), 76 pp.
"Aprende a desarrollar productos y medios informativos con foco en la audiencia y su sustentabilidad económica." (https://propulsorio.com)
DPPD Handbook: A Step-By-Step Guide for Development Practitioners to Apply the Data Powered Positive Deviance Method
Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) (2021), 138 pp.
"Positive Deviance (PD) is based on the observation that in every community or organization, there are a few individuals who achieve significantly better outcomes than their peers, despite having similar challenges and resources. These individuals are referred to as positive deviants, and adopting t
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MediaDev Fundraising Guide
Key Guides
"If your organisation is planning to apply for media development or journalism support funding, the GFMD MediaDev Fundraising Guide is for you. We hope that the Guide will provide insight into a variety of application models, take you through the project design process, and help you submit better -
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Media for Democracy Assessment Tool: Learning, Evaluation, and Research (LER) Activity
Key Guides
Washington, DC; Landover, MD: USAID; Cloudburst Group (2021), 93 pp.
"The purpose of the Media for Democracy Assessment Tool (MAT) is to assist United States Agency for International Development (USAID) in producing media assessments to inform strategy on media and democracy programming, help inform potential media development programming goals, and help provide an i
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Using Evidence in Policy and Practice: Lessons from Africa
Routledge (2021), xxvi, 253 pp.
The Hidden Life of Theories of Change
Hivos (2020), 22 pp.
The Design Thinking Toolbox: A Guide to Mastering the Most Popular and Valuable Innovation Methods
Key Guides
Hoboken, NJ: Wiley (2020), 309 pp.
"The Design Thinking Toolbox explains the most important tools and methods to put Design Thinking into action. Based on the largest international survey on the use of design thinking, the most popular methods are described in four pages each by an expert from the global Design Thinking community. If
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Design Thinking: The Handbook
Singapore: WS Professional (2020), 303 pp.
"Design thinking is more than just a new, one-off method of innovation. It is about establishing an innovation-friendly climate in companies and organizations for the long-term. To achieve this, an interdisciplinary team of authors has composed this "recipe book" that can be practically applied to y
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"This guide can be used to prepare a process or a workshop aimed at formulating a Theory of Change (ToC) and also enables staff and partners to critically assess an existing ToC. This is not a traditional step-by-step guide: the document mainly aims to clarify the underlying ideas of the ToC." (Page
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"This practical guide describes a number of workshops held across Europe to train fellow workers in design thinking techniques and processes. It covers how teams have organised their sessions encompassing the structure, tools chosen, length, workshop delivery and evaluation. Through reflection on th
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Managing Outcomes: A Practitioner's Manual for Analysis, Planning, Monitoring and Self-Evaluation Based on Outcome Mapping
Key Guides
Cologne: AGIAMONDO (2020), vi, 114 pp.
"Outcome Mapping was developed 20 years ago by the International Development Research Centre and for many in the development sector it has become a staple in planning, monitoring and evaluation toolkits. Countless organisations across the world have applied and adapted Outcome Mapping for their own
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"This document provides a synthesis of guidance specifically aimed at Theory of Change (ToC) processes in a Global Environment Facility (GEF) context, as part of a growing suite of Scientific and Technical Advisory Panel (STAP) documents that support the design of interventions in meeting the GEF’
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Innovation Roadmap: Design Thinking in der Theorie und Praxis
Berlin: Openmjnd (2020), 59 pp.
"The relationships between water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) actors are critical for improving and sustaining WASH services. Social network analysis (SNA) is a powerful tool for studying social systems that focuses attention on the complex relationships among actors in a system. Specifically, it
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"Collaboration with outside partners is becoming standard practice for more and more news organizations. Questions about how to fund collaborative projects — especially those requiring an ongoing labor-intensive investment by partners — are increasing, too. This guide aims to explore the differ
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Revitalising a Social Movement Through a Global Theory of Change
Oxford: INTRAC (2020), 19 pp.
"The Mothers Union (MU) was beginning to feel its age. Founded 140 years ago it had grown into a social movement of more than 4 million members. But in many places their members felt it had become increasingly inward-looking and ineffective. A radically participative theory of change process, called
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