Theory of Change
Explain how your work could contribute to change. Work backwards from the future you seek, then check the pathway forwards. Build one pathway for each external objective. Your map is a reasoned hypothesis to test with the people affected, not proof that an intervention works.
Part of Course 1 · Clarify · US$29, or all five courses for US$109.
You create: Theory of Change
10 lessons and reviews · about 3.3 hours including exercises.
Every lesson has a short video, the written explanation with examples, a guided exercise that saves into your organisation pack, and a sheet in the Theory of Change workbook.
Begin this module →Your lesson sequence
- 2.1Understanding Theory of Change
- 2.2Defining the problem
- 2.3Long-term impact
- 2.4Outcomes
- 2.5Outputs
- 2.6Activities
- 2.7Inputs
- 2.8Assumptions, risks and evidence
- 2.9Test, write and use your Theory of Change
- 2.10Your Theory of Change
Theory of Change workbook
Module-02-Theory-of-Change.xlsx · included with the course. Sheets: ToC narrative, Problem analysis, Pathways.
Sheets named after a tool use that tool’s columns, so the workbook can be imported into the Impact Tools without retyping. The file is being prepared and will be available to course purchasers.
Tools for this module
Each tool is the live version of work you draft in this module. They are optional; the course and its Excel workbook are complete on their own.
- Theory of Change Builder — Map the changes you expect and record the assumptions behind them. Lessons 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 2.4, 2.5, 2.6, 2.7, 2.8, 2.9