Theories of change
Clarify the links between your actions and your expected results
Theories of change are like roadmaps in the form of a diagram that show how an objective is expected to be achieved.
They break down the expected change in key elements such as activities, results, outputs, outcomes and final goals and their causal links, including the underlying assumptions along the logic. They help understand why and how the change is expected to happen.
Amazing tools for planning, implementing, monitoring and evaluating an intervention, providing a clear vision of the intermediate steps to expect to achieve results.
Benefits of ToC
There are many benefits of using ToC
ToC are a relatively simple but powerful tool to use.
Having facilitated more than 100 ToC in many different contexts, similar gains are observed every time: teams better understand what they are collectively doing, different units in the same organisation and partners can better spot synergies, funders clearly understand the logic and trust the program, it is easier to communicate to larger audiences, monitoring and evaluation has a strong pillar in ToCs, new employees accelerate their onboarding process and more.
Our expertise
Trainer in ToC
Either in person or in our online academy, we train teams to reflect in terms of the causal links underlying their plans and programs and to think beyond day-to-day implementation.
+100 Theories of Change
We have facilitated more than 100 ToC, in different sectors and settings, in person and remotely, for different organizations in different continents.
+17 000 downloads
My article "Refining Theories of Change" published in the JMDE with Lovely Dhillon has been downloaded more than 17 000 times since 2017.
Clarify your intervention
Facilitation of Theories of Change
You can have your ToC this week (*).
If you want to make your program’s logic more clear, to share it internally or externally, we can:
- Have an initial short meeting to understand your purpose
- Have a 1h30 conversation with your team where I will create the diagram before your eyes, based on your inputs
- Review the diagram some days later to have a finalized version.
All based on where you are (online). Your team and even your partners are welcome to enrich the process.
This is a standard procedure, but we can adapt it according to your needs. (*) Do not hesitate to ask if you have questions 🙂
Trainings in ToC
You can also learn how to facilitate and/or visualize Theories of Change yourself (or someone in your team).
We have captured our cumulated experience thanks to having facilitated more than 100 ToCs, and we explain you everything in this evergreen course.
It includes a whole module on Visual representations of ToC, where Dataviz principles are applied to diagrams to make them richer (also available separate as a minicourse).
