Strengthening Local Systems through Network Analysis LINC
- Learn more about how our company, LINC, applies Network Analysis to understand and map complex systems and strengthen local systems and actors.
PACT Organizational Network Analysis (ONA) Handbook (2011)
- A practical guide to the ONA tool created for practitioners and development professionals. While it assumes the reader's general familiarity with networks, the handbook provides practitioners and managers with the information they need to understand how ONA works, and how best to incorporate it in their country strategy or program.
University of Michigan School of Information Social Network Analysis online course
- Professor Lada Adamic of the University of Michigan teaches an online course that introduces basic concepts in network theory, discusses metrics and models, and ways to use software analysis tools to experiment with a wide variety of real-world network data. The online class utilizes Gephi, NetLogo and R tools to cover network theory, analysis and application to help learners observe and understand different networks as well as their structures.
Video on Network Theory
- Created by Complexity Labs, this video provides a simple and tangible explanation of Network Theory and discusses the most common terms.
NGO Network Analysis Handbook: how to measure and map linkages between NGOs Save the Children (2011)
- This handbook is designed to aid practitioners to understand what network analysis is; how network data is collected; how to create visual maps of the network, and how to analyze the network data for program/project development or evaluation.
Not everything that connects is a network Overseas Development Institute (2011)
- This paper seeks to address the following questions: Are networks always the most appropriate vehicle? Where they are appropriate? How can we make the best use of them? The paper argues for a more rigorous understanding of networks' nature, particularly their value (and costs), and presents a revised Network Functions Approach as a model for rationalized investment in networks.
Learning about Analysing Networks to Support Development Work (2011)
- This paper presents four cases where social network analysis was used in a development program. It focuses on the analysis of connectivity in real world networks, particularly in cases that were unintentional networks.
Catalyzing Networks for Social Change Monitor Institute and Grantmakers for Effective Organizations (2011)
- This guide is for grant makers who are just beginning to explore and experiment with networks and for those who are further along and want to reflect on their practice.
A Bird's Eye View: Using social network analysis to improve knowledge creation and sharing IBM Institute for Knowledge (2002)
- This guide provides four different network relationship dimensions which are important for effective learning. The research discusses and analyzes how applying these dimensions to important groups of people within an organization can facilitate and improve knowledge creation and sharing.
Social Network Analysis Handbook International Rescue Committee (2016)
- This handbook provides a step by step guide to the application of SNA. The approach draws on Social Network theory, discussion-based tools, and graphical software applications.
Social network analysis of multi-stakeholder platforms in agricultural research for development: Opportunities and constraints for innovation and scaling PLOS One (2017)
- This paper explores three multi-stakeholder platforms (MSPs) in Burundi, Rwanda and the eastern part of Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). The researchers apply SNA and Exponential Random Graph Modelling (ERGM) to investigate the structural properties of the collaborative, knowledge exchange and influence networks of these MSPs, and compare them against value propositions derived from the innovation network literature. Results demonstrate a number of mismatches between collaboration, knowledge exchange and influence networks for effective innovation and scaling processes in all three countries. The results illustrate the potential of Social Network Analysis and ERGMs to identify the strengths and limitations of MSPs in terms of achieving development impacts.