Participatory budgeting is a community engagement method for governments looking to make their communities more inclusive and participatory. This guide provides key steps for developing a defined, efficient and effective participatory budgeting process, real-life examples and best practices and an interactive worksheet to get you started. By organizing a participatory budget, public officials can tap directly into the collective intelligence of their communities and align the allocation of…
Toolkit Type: Playbook
This guide will teaches the basics of setting up a communications plan for your community engagement efforts. The guide covers how to set up a communication plan across three engagement project phases (launch, in-progress, and report-out phase) and walks through the core, strategic steps needed. Each section includes checklists and practical tips. It draws on best practices and lessons learned from CitizenLab's collaboration with 400+ local governments worldwide. This resource is distributed via…
This Playbook compiles over 120 short exercises, games, scenarios, checklists and handouts to help individuals and teams discuss, learn, and share all aspects of the data lifecycle. The Playbook is divided into 10 modules that can be modified to suit individual needs and composed of facilitator tips to help strengthen data capacity. The resource is modular and includes specific exercises and example workshop templates. This content is also available in Arabic.
The OECD-OPSI Innovation Playbook offers an accessible, actionable and user-centred instrument to translate the OECD Declaration on Public Sector Innovation into practical guidance on how its principles can be applied to solve public sector challenges. The Innovation Playbook offers an entry point to help governments identify where they can build and leverage innovative capacities to solve present and emerging challenges. Intended for top officials and middle-managers, it helps users assess and…
The Collective Intelligence Design Playbook, created by Nesta, offers a wide range of tools, tactics and methods to engage collective intelligence to solve societal challenges. Through practical instructions and case studies, the Playbook presents ways to orchestrate diverse groups of people, data and technology.
It is designed to be applied by teams or groups and features an introduction to help users understand the scope and potential of collective intelligence, practical guidance to sustain…
The Anticipatory Innovation Starter Kit (AISK) offers a step-by-step approach to access a set of methodologies and tools to solve organisational challenges in the area of anticipatory innovation governance. Developed by the Experimentation Lab for Public Administration (LabX), part of the Administrative Modernisation Agency (AMA) in Portugal, the starter kit intends to be an actionable tool to envisage and anticipate changes in public sector organisations.
Users start in a "Pool of Problems"…
Mission-oriented innovation aims to create change at the system level where everyone involved is involved and drives development. The working method is a tool for achieving jointly set sustainability goals on a broad basis and with great impact.
In this handbook, we tell about Vinnova's work together with a number of relevant actors to jointly create mission-oriented innovation. You can follow how the actors under 2019-2021 test and develop the working method in the two different areas of food…
This handbook introduces actionable knowledge on developing a Transformative Theory of Change by applying a portfolio approach to address a systems innovation perspective for projects and programmes. Tools, methods and lessons learned are based on working hand in hand with EIT Climate-KIC projects around a portfolio of knowledge services for sustainable systems transformation.
The step-by-step methodology supports practitioners to design, implement and evaluate projects aimed at achieving…
Futures Frequency is a workshop method for groups of 8–20 people. This website provides tools for facilitating the workshop either online or in person. There are videos that introduce each theme and the facilitator’s handbook includes detailed steps for facilitating the group assignments.
Futures Frequency was developed by Sitra based on input from a development team in various fields. It's purpose is to increase participants’ ability to envisage different futures and take action towards…
This toolkit allows organisations to change their mindset and move from a project-oriented approach towards a platform-way-of-working that is designed to tackle complex problems. The toolkit was developed and tested by the Danish Design Centre in collaboration with United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and 40+ country offices. The toolkit consists of several mapping exercises. After using the integrated Mission Statement Generator to create an ambitious yet realistic mission statement,…