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Plan for Long-term - Strategy Canvas
A canvas designed by the UNDP team to help you design better projects.
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Plan for Long-term - Engagement strategy Canvas
A canvas designed by the UNDP team to help you design better projects.
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Default to Open - DPG Canvas
A canvas designed by the UNDP team to help you design better projects.
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Follow UNDP Data Principles - Definition Canvas
A canvas designed by the UNDP team to help you design better projects.
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Measure what matters - Canvas
A canvas designed by the UNDP team to help you design better projects.
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Form the right team - TOR Canvas
A canvas designed by the UNDP team to help you design better projects.
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Form the right team - Gap Analysis Canvas
A canvas designed by the UNDP team to help you design better projects.
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Do No Harm - Future thinking decision tree Canvas
A canvas designed by the UNDP team to help you design better projects.
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Don't Build it - Decision tree Canvas
A canvas designed by the UNDP team to help you design better projects.
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Test early and often - Experimentation Plan Canvas
A canvas designed by the UNDP team to help you design better projects.
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Test early and often - Assumptions map Canvas
A canvas designed by the UNDP team to help you design better projects.
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Bridge the Digital Divide - Mitigation Strategy Canvas
A canvas designed by the UNDP team to help you design better projects.
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Bridge the Digital Divide - Digital Divide Identification Canvas
A canvas designed by the UNDP team to help you design better projects.
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Start with the Needs - Unique Value Proposition Canvas
A canvas designed by the UNDP team to help you design better projects.
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Start with the Needs - User Journey Canvas
A canvas designed by the UNDP team to help you design better projects.
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Start with the Needs - Solution canvas
A canvas designed by the UNDP team to help you design better projects.
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Start with the Needs - Problem Statement canvas
A canvas designed by the UNDP team to help you design better projects.
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Start with the Needs - Persona canvas
A canvas designed by the UNDP team to help you design better projects.
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Article
Tech nonprofit playbook
Guide to Starting and Scaling a Tech Nonprofit
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Just Tech Platform
A program on questions of power, justice, and the public impact of new technologies
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A Sanity Check
Sanity checks are purposeful stops in a process to ensure that things are going according to plan.
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Build vs Buy Calculator
A useful calculator to understand the different costs in buying vs building a digital solution
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Toolkit
Building a Digital Information Infrastructure (Infostructure) for Health
WHO guide to assist countries with the advancement of their national digital health system, specifically through the use of a digital health platform
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Communication for Development Toolkit
Practical guidance for strengthening ongoing awareness-raising information campaigns and related outreach through the application of Communication for Development (C4D).
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Corporate Website Best Practices.
An overview of key considerations when developing websites
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Design kit
IDEO.org field guide to Human-Centered Design
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YouTube Video
Design Sprint Explained
The entire Design Sprint process explained, in only 8 minutes.
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Digital Capacity Database
A curated database of external digital capacity training resources
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Digital Regulation Handbook
ITU guide to enabling policy and regulatory environment for digital technology
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Don't build it. A Guide for Practitioners in Civic Tech
This guide by practitioner-in-residence Luke Jordan aims to help you avoid bad projects, structure the team right, ship and learn quicker, and mature longer.
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Don't Design Without Content
Why it is useful to build the content prior to designing a website or product.
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Toolkit
Draw Toast
An easy way to introduce teams to the concept of Systems Thinking
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Exploring Fairness in Machine Learning for International Development
MIT Lab research on ML for international development
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FROM  PRINCIPLE TO PRACTICE:   Implementing the Principles  for Digital Development
Guide to apply the principles for digital development in your project
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Getting Real
Getting real is a book how to build and ship web applications for real people.
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Google Design Sprint
The Design Sprint is a proven methodology developed by Google for solving problems through designing, prototyping, and testing ideas with users.
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Books
Great CEOs are Lazy
A business book that has strong appliations in all areas of project management.
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Human-centered design case studies
IDEO.org case studies of successful projects that have used Human-centered design
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Lean Canvas
A tool to quickly create and ideate on business concepts.
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Leslie's Law
An interesting article on how small, cheap software solutions often beat larger and more expensive ones.
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Leveraging big data for sustainable development toolkit
toolkit  for developing practical data literacy skills for practitioners and policy-makers to build inclusive Big Data-driven innovation projects, policies and partnerships.
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Making AI Work for International Development
Providing examples of  ML and AI applications in development, laying out best practices and the critical role of development practitioners in ensuring responsible deployment of  these tools
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Managing Machine Learning Projects in International Development: A Practical Guide
USAID practical guide to using ML in development projects
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On Customer Engagement
An book on engaging with customers and end users in impactful ways.
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On Customer Support
How to handle customer support for technology projects.
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On Product Management
An overview on how to manage software projects.
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Painless Functional Specifications – Part 1: Why Bother?
A clear overview of why writing software specfications is always worth the time.
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Painless Functional Specifications – Part 2: What’s a Spec?
Explaining precisely what a software specification is — and why it matters.
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Painless Functional Specifications – Part 3: But… How?
How to create useful and practical software specifications.
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Painless Functional Specifications – Part 4: Tips
Tips on how to write software specifications.
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Plain English for Lawyers
Writing clearly does not have to be difficult, even lawyers can do it.
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Guide
Principle for digital development facilitator guide
Facilitator guide to introduce the principles for digital developet
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Prioritization for Leaders.
How to work at the point of constraint — focus on the most difficult areas first.
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Prototype on Paper
An overview on how to create quick and easy paper prototypes for fast usability testing.
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Refactoring UI
A set of resources on how to ensure consistent and easy-to-use user interfaces.
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Shape Up
The Shape Up is a methodology used by product development teams to shape, bet, and build impactful products.
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Social impact business canvas
Tool to help you quickly identify the main outcomes and impacts of your project
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Subway Map
The official UNDP buying process, mapped out in a visual manner.
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Books
Switch: How to Change Things When Change is Hard
A book on how to create behaviour change in difficult situations.
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The 3h brand sprint
A series of six exercises that are designed to quickly align leaders around a vision for their brand
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The Continous Innovation Manifesto
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The Customer Journey.
How to understand and map out existing customer journeys, and create new ones.
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The Digital Economy Kit
Useful framework to help countries assess their digital readiness, decide their priorities through dialogue, and craft a strategy going forward
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The Gender Digital Divide
USAID sharing best practices learned in previous gender and ICT programs
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YouTube Video
The Lean Start-up
Video presenting the lean start-up approach to creating desired product to users
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Toolkit
UNICEF HDC toolkit for health services
UNICEF tools you can use to apply the human-centred approach to challenges around health services.
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UX Glossary of Terms.
A useful list of UX terms for non-experts
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Web Design Glossary of Terms
A useful list of web design/development terms for non-experts
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