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Identifying Strategic Local Partners: How to Map Relationships and Focus Your Outreach

A practical guide to identifying strategic local partners, community centres of power, and relationship priorities in local civic work.

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Pillars of Support: Start Here

What are Pillars of Support? Here is a curated collection of resources collated by the Commons librarians including introductory resources, videos, templates, case studies and exercises.

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Power and Power Mapping: Start Here

Understanding power relationships is crucial knowledge for people engaged in social change. Here are guides, tools and other resources.

Power: Training and Planning Tools

Training resources for changemakers including workshop exercises, activities and templates to explore in a group setting more about power.

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Decoding Injustice: Shedding New Light on How Economic Policies Harm People’s Human Rights

This article provides a powerful way to use research to advance a range of economic, environmental, and social issues.

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Pillars of Power Analysis: Identify the Institutions

Identify the institutions that your target relies on for support so you can weaken or disrupt their power.

Power Mapping to Design a Winning Campaign Strategy

Map the power dynamics at play to identify your primary target and design a winning campaign strategy.

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Understanding Forms of Power

Quick guide to understand the different forms of power – Power over, Power With, Power To and Power Within.

The Power Matrix

This matrix presents how different dimensions of power interact to shape the problem and the possibility of citizen participation and action.

The Power Cube

The Power Cube is a tool to analyse the power your targets hold so you can create a more effective campaign strategy and bring about change.

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