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The idea of Impact - Coggle Diagram
The idea of Impact
How: How do we model/measure?
Theory of change
HISTORY OF METHODS
Theory of change
It emerged from the work of a panel of evaluation experts (at the Aspen Institute Roundtable in 1995) who were seeking more appropriate methods to use in the evaluation of Comprehensive Community Initiatives (CCIs): multi-faceted, multi-level area-based programmes funded by the US government to tackle child poverty (Weiss, 1995). The panel was concerned that existing evaluation approaches were failing to generate useful or credible findings. The ToC evaluation strategy emerged as a development of earlier work on a theory-based approach to evaluation design.
Alternatives
Systems-mapping approaches
Agent-based models
System-dynamic models
Actor maps
Logframes
What: What do we measure/model?
KIND OF CONNECTIONS
Linear
One thing leads to another
Complex
Web of connections, with loops and emergence
APPROACH
One size fits all
Different lenses, different ways of seeing
COLLECT AND UNDERSTAND
Numbers/Quantifiable data
Stories/Narratives/Intangibles/Preferences/Biases
FOCUS
Event
Output/Outcome
Process
How was it done?
Why: How we see the world
VIEWS
ONE VIEW OF THE WORLD
One end: 'One' view of the world; whoever sees this world, sees it the same way. In a sense, the world is 'objective' and the perspective of who sees the world does not matter
DIVERSITY
View of the world is 'constructed' by different perspectives
There is no 'one' view. There are diverse perspectives and plurality
NATURE OF THE WORLD
A world of order
There's a logic and reason as to why things happen, and that logic is evident. Causality can be established.
Complex
The interconnections form a web; so easy causal relationships are hard to map.
TEMPORALITY
Static
Dynamic
Who: Who does the measuring? Who is affected?