Handbooks

  • Workbook for problem-oriented project planning

    Workbook for problem-oriented project planning

    In this workbook, we lay out a multi-step process for doing this kind of deep reflection and using it to develop an action plan to tackle your chosen problem. This tool is designed to help you and your team strengthen key capabilities for tackling complex problems. The tool is focused on project planning and project…

  • ICLD Mentor’s handbook

    ICLD Mentor’s handbook

    A mentor for ICLD is an experienced professional who is an expert in the network/programme topic and has an in-depth knowledge of the local context of the teams they are mentoring. Being a mentor allows you to share your experience and network, to promote and follow up progress in teams’ projects and to stay connected…

  • Handbook – How to conduct democratic workshops

    Handbook – How to conduct democratic workshops

    A summary of ICLD suggestions ICLD strives to organise all its workshops, trainings, conferences and other activities in the most democratic way possible.For the ICLD, this means organising these events so that they are as inclusive and transparent as possible, as well as ensuring active participation and that the organiser remains accountable to participants. This…

  • Organisational readiness

    Organisational readiness

    Assessing your organisational readiness at the outset of the project will allow you to compare this baseline with the situation at the end of the project, the endline. This will help you to track organisational changes that your project has contributed to, as well as unexpected results that may have happened in the organisation. The…

  • Organisational learning – handbook

    Organisational learning – handbook

    This organisational learning model was developed by ICLD using the SECI model as a basis. Åsa Lorentzi of the City of Gothenburg, a former project member in a municipal partnership and with extensive experience in working with change processes and social sustainability, has been of great help in this work. Swedish and African municipalities have…