Friday, September 12, 2014

The Best Evidence Yet on How Theories of Change are Being Used in Aid and Development Work | People, Spaces, Deliberation

The Best Evidence Yet on How Theories of Change are Being Used in Aid and Development Work | People, Spaces, Deliberation: "If you are interested in Theories of Change (ToCs), you have to read Craig Valters’ new paper ‘Theories of Change in International Development: Communication, Learning or Accountability’ or at least, his accompanying blog. The paper draws on the fascinating collaboration between the LSE and The Asia Foundation, in which TAF gave LSE researchers access to its country programmes and asked them to study their use of ToCs. That means Craig has been able to observe their use (and abuse) in practice.

What this paper helps answer is the question I raised a while ago – will ToCs go the way of the logframe, starting out as a good idea, but being steadily dumbed down into a counterproductive tickbox exercise by the procedural demands of the aid business?"



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