More futures tools

There is a wealth of resources from other organisations and futures experts that can also help you to catalyse your thinking. Here are some of our favourites. We’d love to hear yours!

• IARAN have written several definitive reports on the future of Aid. Their most recent report provides four scenarios for the future of aid in 2040.

• Respace Peace has a series of scenarios to “radically reimagine the future role of local civic actors throughout the globe”. They are a collaborative that seeks to build “a collaborative and enabling space for change agents and movement actors to challenge the status quo in global peacebuilding and reimagine alternative pathways towards equitable global spaces and infrastructures for sustainable peace”.

• FutureScribe helps organisations to think creatively, using stories from the future. They have a ‘Crystal Ball’ that can turn any idea into a story of the future - showing what could happen if that idea became reality. They run run creative participative processes to develop policy, strategies or funding applications.
  
  

• The International Civil Society Centre has been working on futures to support CSOs imagine their futures. They have released four scenarios for civil society in 2046 and also have a set of case studies of CSOs using them in their work

• Peace Direct has written about the nine future roles of INGOs.

• This is a vision mapped out by Sibahle Zuma for the Shift the Power movement on the future of the sector.

• African Women's Development Fund produced a report about futures for women in 2030.

• Charles Kojo Vandyck explores operating models for CSOs in the Global Majority in his book: The Engine Behind the Mission: Re-imagining Non-profit Operating Models in the Global Majority

• Journal of Futures Studies has accessible blogs and articles featuring experts from the futures thinking field

• The World Economic Forum have 5 future scenarios for global aid.

• Development Research has written four futures for global development cooperation.

• The Centre for Global Development has a series of articles on the future of development in 2050.

• ODI’s The Development Policy Review journal has a whole journal on the future of aid with articles and scenarios from a variety of practitioners.

• Firetail have written about the 6 lessons organisations can take from doing futures work.

• The OECD has mapped out a series of global scenarios for 2035.