Resources & Ideas
The Governance Action Hub gathers ideas and knowledge resources from across the world highlighting new insights that help to push the envelope of governance reform.
Governance Action Spotlight
The Governance Action Spotlights showcase diverse local governance efforts and initiatives globally. We also highlight innovative and transformative work happening at the grassroots level, in order to foster a broader understanding and appreciation for effective governance practices worldwide.
Featured Resources and Ideas
Designing & Facilitating Collaborative Learning Networks: A Toolkit
Toolkit | READ THIS IF YOU’RE INTERESTED IN: Understanding how you can use to help coalitions solve problems together, design learning activities that focus on drawing out expertise of local...
The Audacity Deficit in Natural Resource Governance
Paper | READ THIS IF YOU’RE INTERESTED IN: Understanding the insights that informed the concept and the design of the Governance Action Hub.
Making Colombia’s energy transition a just one for all: 4 lessons from the Governance Action Hub
Blog | The Governance Action Hub aims to convene and put local change agents in the driver’s seat to analyze local challenges, co-create solutions and take action collectively. In March...
Ideas
Emerging thoughts from the Governance trenches. Here, we collect blogs published by the Hub’s team and other thought leaders.
State Capture Matters: Challenging corruption and a new dataset
Blog | Editor’s note: The following blog is part of the Governance Action Hub initiatives to use evidence and data for action in one of its core themes: state capture...
Strengthening local coalitions for change: What’s next for the Governance Action Hub?
Blog | A few weeks ago, the R4D-led Governance Action Hub hosted its official launch event. Since then, the team has been preparing for initial country-level engagements and designing a...
Making Colombia’s energy transition a just one for all: 4 lessons from the Governance Action Hub
Blog | The Governance Action Hub aims to convene and put local change agents in the driver’s seat to analyze local challenges, co-create solutions and take action collectively. In March...
Tools and Toolkits
These are collections of insight and how-to information that inform the way the Governance Action Hub and partners promote governance reform.
Human Learning Systems: A practical guide for the curious
Tool | READ THIS IF YOU’RE INTERESTED IN: A new approach to public services that focuses on learning, experimentation, and system change rather than traditional management models. This guide is...
The Strategy Testing Workbook: Politically-Smart Adaptive Programming in Complex Environments
Tool | READ THIS IF YOU’RE INTERESTED IN: Strategies to design and implement responsive good governance programs that can adapt to a changing landscape.
Collaborative Learning Networks Measurement & Learning Framework
READ THIS IF YOU’RE INTERESTED IN: Understanding how to measure the impact of collaborative learning networks in driving systems change through peer-to-peer learning.
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Grassroots Women’s Community Empowerment Toolkit
Toolkit | READ THIS IF YOU’RE INTERESTED IN: Learning new methods from grassroots leaders for creating effective and sustainable approaches to community development and movement building.
On the Right Tack: Reflections on Coalition-Building Initiatives Across The Asia Foundation
READ THIS IF YOU’RE INTERESTED IN: Learning about the role of coalitions in development and how they can drive policy change, based on successful initiatives in Asia.
Systems Thinking and Practice: A Guide to Concepts, Principles and Tools for FCDO and Partners
Toolkit | READ THIS IF YOU’RE INTERESTED IN: Understanding how FCDO approaches and uses systems thinking to address to complex, rapidly changing global challenges, particularly in the context of international...
Designing & Facilitating Collaborative Learning Networks: A Toolkit
Toolkit | READ THIS IF YOU’RE INTERESTED IN: Understanding how you can use to help coalitions solve problems together, design learning activities that focus on drawing out expertise of local...
Systems Mapping: unpacking complexity and identifying opportunity for change
WATCH THIS IF YOU’RE INTERESTED IN: Visualizing and analyzing complex systems, including relationships between actors, processes, and structures. Learn how systems mapping can be used for evaluation or program design.
The Audacity Deficit in Natural Resource Governance
Paper | READ THIS IF YOU’RE INTERESTED IN: Understanding the insights that informed the concept and the design of the Governance Action Hub.
Making anti-corruption real: using a ‘Power Capabilities and Interest Approach’ to stop wasting money and start making progress
READ THIS IF YOU’RE INTERESTED IN: Rethinking anti-corruption strategies and exploring a new approach that focuses on power dynamics, capabilities, and interests to make anti-corruption efforts more effective.
Community Led Development (CLD) Evaluation Tool
Tool | USE THIS IF YOU’RE INTERESTED IN: Assessing whether your programs are aligned with the principles of community led development and how they might be approved.
Learning health systems: pathways to progress
READ THIS IF YOU’RE INTERESTED IN: Understanding how learning processes can strengthen health systems, particularly in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs), and how to institutionalize learning to improve decision-making, adaptation,...
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