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"This people-centered playbook [...] is designed to give you the essentials of AI adoption in a quick, accessible format, with core concepts, foundational steps, and key frameworks without overwhelming detail. Built for impact-driven teams in low-resource or non-tech-first contexts, it answers the m
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Public Interest Communications: Strategy for Changemakers
Key Guides
New York; London: Routledge (2025), xii, 344 pp.
"Written by two practitioners with deep professional experience, this book introduces readers to public interest communications, which takes an evidence-based approach to using strategic communications to drive positive social change. Each chapter includes accessible, applicable insights, exercises
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Design thinking in media development
Deutsche Welle DW Akademie, October 1 (2025)
"DW Akademie’s media development projects encourage participants to find fitting solutions to their problems. A design thinking process can guide them. Trainer Yulia Alekseeva explains what it takes to innovate." (Introduction)
"The impact framework is a set of tools and guidelines that helps to define targets for, track, and assess the impact of activities under the supported media projects in a clear and organised way; it can also be used for other media projects. Its methodology embraces a user-centric approach, links p
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Manual de Buenas Prácticas de Responsabilidad Social Comunitaria
San José: Universidad de Costa Rica, Centro de Investigación en Comunicación (CICOM) (2024), 87 pp.
"El presente manual representa un importante y valioso esfuerzo por poner el foco en el relacionamiento con comunidades. Surge de una investigación de campo que resume acciones de empresas interesadas en conocer a sus grupos de interés externos y, de manera específica, a las comunidades a quienes
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Mapping Out Regional Consultations: A Practical Orientation to Organizing Consultations
Bonn: Deutsche Welle DW Akademie (2023), 17 pp.
"Carrying out regional consultations with multiple stakeholders can help establish a shared understanding of major challenges and build consensus about promising paths forward. They are particularly useful in complex environments with many different actors. This guide provides some practical guidanc
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Research Handbook on Design Thinking
Cheltenham, UK; Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar Publishing (2023), xiii, 327 pp.
"With thirty-six expert contributors representing a wide range of disciplines, this Research Handbook contains seventeen chapters structured into three thematic parts to explore the people, processes, and practices of design thinking. Method case studies demonstrate how design thinking has been impl
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Gestión de la comunicación aplicada
Quito: Abya-Yala; Universidad Politécnica Salesiana (2023), 978-9978-10-831-4 (print); 978-9978-10-832-1 (ebook)
"La gestión de proyectos aplicados se refiere al enfoque práctico y sistemático utilizado para planificar, organizar y controlar el trabajo necesario para concluir un proyecto de manera eficiente y efectiva. Esto implica identificar los objetivos, definir las tareas y actividades necesarias para
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Enhancing Church Growth Using Design Thinking: A Proposal for Mountainside Lutheran Church
Rere Awhio – Journal of Applied Research & Practice, issue 3 (2023), pp. 115-127
"This exploratory study uses the Design Thinking framework and starts by mapping elements related to church growth from different works of literature and local successful churches’ experiences. Using this list of elements, a survey was designed to provide an overview of the existing internal resou
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Data for Social Good: Non-Profit Sector Data Projects
Singapore: Palgrave Macmillan (2023), xv, 127 pp.
"This open access book provides practical guidance for non-profits and community sector organisations about how to get started with data analytics projects using their own organisations' datasets and open public data. The book shares best practices on collaborative social data projects and methodolo
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How-To Note: Addressing the Principles for Digital Development in Project and Activity Design
Key Guides
USAID (2022), 20 pp.
"The How-to Note is a brief, user-friendly guide that helps program design teams understand and prioritize the Digital Principles most relevant to their work. Through a series of leading questions and worksheets, this digital activity design checklist provides actionable guidance for each Digital Pr
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Narrative Spices: An Innovational Guide for Flavourful Human Rights
Key Guides
Bogotá; Washington, DC: JustLabs; Fund for Global Human Rights (2022), 66 pp.
"This document is a different kind of guide. Meaning, it's less of a guide and more of an invitation. An invitational guide, if you will. For us, narrative research has become one door into a bigger, older, interrelated question about how we inspire one another to change. This document tries to conn
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Open Science for Peacebuilding Toolkit
Berlin: Global Innovation Gathering (GIG); Vilsquare (2022), 43 pp.
"The aim of this Open Science and Peacebuilding Toolkit is to provide an open, living collection of resources for innovation hubs operating in conflict or post-conflict environments, creating a joint framework for open science and peacebuilding in action. It seeks to enable makerspaces across the wo
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"This note aims to support DT Global staff and partners to: understand DT Global's adaptive management framework; assess if and what level of adaptive management is required for a program; the difference between adaptive management and good program management; and initial steps to apply adaptive man
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Inclusion, Not Just an Add-On
Kampala: Pollicy (2022), 25 pp.
"This guide was created to drive conversations within technology entities to reconsider and reconceptualize how they approach inclusive design practices. Historically, inclusion has been a “nice-to-have” add-on within digital platforms, and as such, discriminates against and excludes a large pro
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Design Thinking: A Global Study on Implementation Practices in Organizations
Potsdam: Universitätsverlag Potsdam (2022), 230 pp.
"Despite its growing relevance and the diffusion of design thinking, knowledge on the actual status quo in organizations remains scarce. With a new study, the research team of Prof. Uebernickel and Stefanie Gerken investigates temporal developments and changes in design thinking practices in organiz
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Case Study: EthioCheck Lab. Developing Fact-Checking Strategies with Human Centered Design — Insights of an Approach in Ethiopia
Bonn: Deutsche Welle DW Akademie (2022), 42 pp.
"DW Akademie initiated a human-centered design (HCD) process as a starting point for a media development project in Ethiopia. The aim was to develop a better understanding and assess the current situation regarding misinformation and disinformation. The process with journalists and media experts fro
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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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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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