This is a toolkit on how to invent, adopt or adapt ideas that can deliver better results. It’s quick to use, simple to apply, and designed to help busy people working in development.
The tools are not coming out of thin air. It draws on a study of many hundreds of tools currently being used – here we have included only the ones which practitioners found most useful. Many of them are well documented and have been widely used in other sectors. In that sense this toolkit is standing on the shoulders of giants, and we are happy to acknowledge that. All the tool descriptions include a key reference, so it is easy to trace back their origins and dive deeper into other publications about their application.
This toolkit was initiated by Nesta, and made possible by Rockefeller Foundation. Together they commissioned STBY and Quicksand for the content curation and design.
All the work is licensed ©Nesta under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International Licence. To view a copy of the licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/
The toolkit can be downloaded as a PDF. Over the years translations have been made to 9 languages. See below for the various options.
Download the DIY Toolkit in English
Download the DIY Toolkit in Arabic
Download the DIY Toolkit in French
Download the DIY Toolkit in Greek
Download the DIY Toolkit in Italian
Download the DIY Toolkit in Japanese
Download the DIY Toolkit in Mandarin
Download the DIY Toolkit in Portuguese
Each tool has been adapted into an easy-to-use digital template, ready to support collaborative, online workshops and creative processes. Follow the link to see more.
