I have previously advocated, here (and here), for taking a ‘persona’ or character-based approach to fleshing out a theory of change. This is a way of involving a variety of stakeholders (especially those closer to the ground, such as intended beneficiaries and street-level implementer’s) in discussions about program and theory of change development — evenContinueContinue reading “Thinking More About Using Personas/Personae In Developing Theories of Change”
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Thinking About Building Evaluation Ownership, Theories of Change — Back From Canadian Evaluation Society
This week I had the pleasure of attending the Canadian Evaluation Society (#EvalC2015) meeting in Montreal, which brought together a genuinely nice group of people thinking not just hard a-boot evaluation strategies and methodologies but also how evaluation can contribute to better and more transparent governance, improving our experience as global and national citizens –ContinueContinue reading “Thinking About Building Evaluation Ownership, Theories of Change — Back From Canadian Evaluation Society”
Theories of change, stakeholders, imagined beneficiaries, & stealing from product design. That is, meet ‘Mary.’
This post is also available, lightly edited, here. I have been thinking a lot about ‘theories of change’ this week (just did some presenting on them here!). Actually, I have been thinking more about ‘conceptual models,’ which was the term by which I was first introduced to the general idea (via Vic Strecher in ConceptualContinueContinue reading “Theories of change, stakeholders, imagined beneficiaries, & stealing from product design. That is, meet ‘Mary.’”
back (and forward) from ‘the big push forward’ – thoughts on why evidence is political and what to do about it
i spent the beginning of the week in brighton at the ‘big push forward’ conference, on the politics of evidence (#evpolitics) which mixed the need for venting and catharsis (about the “results agenda” and “results-based management” and “impact evaluation”) with some productive conversation, though no immediate concreteness on how the evidence from the conference would itself beContinueContinue reading “back (and forward) from ‘the big push forward’ – thoughts on why evidence is political and what to do about it”
Heather E. Lanthorn 