The Amani Social Innovation Framework is an 8 step process for developing new ideas to address social challenges: 1) Identify a social issue you care about, 2) Research the issue from diverse sources, 3) Ask questions others aren't to reframe the issue, 4) Learn from other fields to develop solutions, 5) Create prototypes to test ideas in the real world, 6) Consider the potential social impacts of ideas, 7) Share ideas with others to get feedback, 8) Develop a final idea incorporating all previous steps.

1. AMANI SOCIAL INNOVATION FRAMEWORK
8 Steps to Creating a New Idea
IDEAGENERATION
Putting all the previous steps
together, what is your idea to
address this challenge?
BURNING
What social challenge or
opportunity do you personally
care a lot about?
SENSING
What information can you find
out about the challenge, using as
diverse a range of sources and
types of information as possible?
QUESTIONING
What are the questions about
this challenge that nobody else
is asking? Can you re-frame the
challenge in a different way?
ASSOCIATING
What can you learn from
other fields or sectors or
experiences that might be
adaptable to your challenge?
EXPERIMENTING
What might be a draft prototype
of your idea? What does it look
like in the realworld?
IMPACTING
What are the possibilities for
social impact from your idea?
Howwill you set it up for impact
from the beginning?
IDEA NETWORKING
What new ideas or feedback can
you get from sharing your idea
with a diverse group of people?