My Communities

The goals of the theory of change process is for organizations to develop a framework on how it can achieve its long term outcomes and measure its success.

The goals of the Theory of Change process are to help an organisation develop a shared "big picture" view of their intended impact and how their activities will lead to it; and to develop a clear, pragmatic level of detail in this for operationalisation and measurement.

The main goals of TOC are to help focus on what preconditions are needed to achieve long-term goal(s)/outcomes and explain how that may be achieved (the pathways).

The goal of the theory of change is to explain briefly how project's interventions lead to intermediate and long-term results.

My organisation may fall into the pitfall of not measuring the outcomes to ascertain the impcat of the project. To mitigate, set of indicators must be clearly put in place as measuring tool.

The Theory of Change provides the big picture of the intended change. It defines the long-term goal of a project and the broad strategic areas of intervention, and then maps the building blocks or preconditions, that need to be in place for the long-term change to occur. The Theory of Change also identifies the assumptions that need to hold true for the project to succeed, and the evidence that is available to support them.

The goal of the ToC is to design a strategy to achieve the longer term outcome/impact; supported y the realistic and achievable assumed strategies that could be measured, specific and timebound

A Theory of Change allows a team and relevant stakeholders of the project articulate the long-term goal of the project and what outputs and outcomes are required to achieve envisioned success. In defining the Theory of Chance, it's also a chance for stakeholders to raise questions about the strategic plan, to challenge the logic of the connections and the assumptions, and for the team to ensure a shared understanding about what the project is trying to accomplish.

Setting and linking the interventions wit the immediate intermediate outcomes which will lead to the impact.

It is the clearest justification.

The goal of Theory of Change Process is to help an organization to articulate the assumptions that like behined its reasoning and to address the question of why the organization thinks its activities will lead to the outcomes intended. Moreover, it helps the organization wheather its plans are supported by evidence.

GOALS OF A THEORY OF CHANGE**

THE FOLLOWING ARE THE GOALS FOR CREATING AND OR DEVELOPING A THEORY OF CHANGE IN ORGANIZATIONS

1. Theory of change helps the organization in finding solutions to often challenging and complex problems
2. it helps in setting the stage to long range results
3. it explains the process that will be followed to bring about the needed change
4. it specifies the ways in which all of the required early and intermediate outcomes related to achieving the desired long-term change will be brought about and documented as they occur.

GOALS OF A THEORY OF CHANGE**

THE FOLLOWING ARE THE GOALS FOR CREATING AND OR DEVELOPING A THEORY OF CHANGE IN ORGANIZATIONS

1. Theory of change helps the organization in finding solutions to often challenging and complex problems
2. it helps in setting the stage to long range results
3. it explains the process that will be followed to bring about the needed change
4. it specifies the ways in which all of the required early and intermediate outcomes related to achieving the desired long-term change will be brought about and documented as they occur.

GOALS OF A THEORY OF CHANGE**

THE FOLLOWING ARE THE GOALS FOR CREATING AND OR DEVELOPING A THEORY OF CHANGE IN ORGANIZATIONS

1. Theory of change helps the organization in finding solutions to often challenging and complex problems
2. it helps in setting the stage to long range results
3. it explains the process that will be followed to bring about the needed change
4. it specifies the ways in which all of the required early and intermediate outcomes related to achieving the desired long-term change will be brought about and documented as they occur.

GOALS OF A THEORY OF CHANGE**

THE FOLLOWING ARE THE GOALS FOR CREATING AND OR DEVELOPING A THEORY OF CHANGE IN ORGANIZATIONS

1. Theory of change helps the organization in finding solutions to often challenging and complex problems
2. it helps in setting the stage to long range results
3. it explains the process that will be followed to bring about the needed change
4. it specifies the ways in which all of the required early and intermediate outcomes related to achieving the desired long-term change will be brought about and documented as they occur.

GOALS OF A THEORY OF CHANGE**

THE FOLLOWING ARE THE GOALS FOR CREATING AND OR DEVELOPING A THEORY OF CHANGE IN ORGANIZATIONS

1. Theory of change helps the organization in finding solutions to often challenging and complex problems
2. it helps in setting the stage to long range results
3. it explains the process that will be followed to bring about the needed change
4. it specifies the ways in which all of the required early and intermediate outcomes related to achieving the desired long-term change will be brought about and documented as they occur.

Theory of change is a tool which, if properly used, can help an organization clearly define and articulate its intervention or mission, as well as build on individual projects to achieve a much broader goal or vision. It helps us to identify potential pitfalls in our strategy as well as provide the basis for resource allocation or mobilization.

I admit that I also fall into the same category, and this has affected our ability to effectively raise funding for subsequent projects.

The goal of the Theory of Change (ToC) is to help stakeholders to define the change they wan to achieve. The ToC is a tool for stakeholders to reach a commonly understood long-term goal. TOC helps to predict exactly who or what is going to change, why, over what period of time, and by how much, and with which resources.

I totally agree, it describes of the component of the ToC: a big picture about the impact that we want to achieved, the preconditions needed and how we're going to measure them. Thanks!.

It is to clarify how an organization’s activities link to outcomes.

It is to clarify how an organization’s activities link to outcomes.

Theory of change is a powerful design because it has great impact on how we operate as professionals and human beings

Theory of change is basically a guide that helps programs to achieve its goals through a visual aid diagram; a diagram that clearly depict how activities will lead to intermediate outcome and subsequently the impact/long term goal.

Theory of Change helps you illustrate how an organisation intends to create and measure change. ToC helps to avoid implementing a mistake that won't deliver the expected results.

Theory of change

1. What we want and why we want
2. How can we get that
3. What are the difficulties and how to overcome
4. How can we measure whether we reach our goals or not

TJE GOAL OF THE THEORY OF CHANGE IS TO MAKE SURE THE SET OBJECTIVE IS ACHIEVED AS OUTLINED BEFORE A PROJECT COURSE IS STARTED.

Theory of change is a description of the types of interventions or strategies that bring about your desired outcomes. Being clear about the process and steps required to reach your desired change allows your organisation to be clear about and to justify the activities it can undertake to bring your vision to life. Your theory of change should be plausible, feasible and testable.

Theory of Change is a process for engaging stakeholders in a participatory process of mapping out a strategic pathway to achieve the group's ultiimate goal. The resulting map connects interventions to intermediate outcomes and exposes the assumptions that underlie the logic of the pathway.

The are goals are the capacity of transforming lives.

The Theory of change helps organizations to understand the ned they want to address, how the need can be addressed and what evidence to show that the need has been addressed

Theory of change is to link the activities with its long term goals. This will help gauge the success of any projects/programs

a theory of change has a number of uses. some of these include; it helps focus a program, it helps communicate a programs strategy, it helps provide better results, and also, it provides a platform to measure results or outcomes...

@khhuang said in Module 1: Introduction to Theory of Change:

The goals of the Theory of Change process are to help an organisation develop a shared "big picture" view of their intended impact and how their activities will lead to it; and to develop a clear, pragmatic level of detail in this for operationalisation and measurement.

very true. this is essential so that all staff part of a program have a similar view on what type of change a program is trying to bring about. where this is not done, a program is likely to either achieve wrong outcomes, or fail to measure what is has achieved in a target population or results area. since individuals part of a program are the ones who implement, they need to know if they are going off track or not...

a theory of change is a tool which is used to explain the logic of how a specific set of sctivities will lead to a certain desired set of outcomes... this is essential as it helps determine how the need can be addressed to bring about certain change in the condition...

a theory of change helps to focus your project, communicate strategy, produce better results and measure the change in those results...

very true. this is essential because it helps visualize how the interventions will lead to the preconditions...

A theory of change process is a roadmap on how an organization plans to reach a long-term objective. The theory of change process outlines interventions, short- and medium-term outcomes (preconditions), as well as the assumptions that are guiding and shapping this process.

I think using the visual of building blocks to describe the theory of change process is helpful, as it shows that there are small parts that build the long-term goal/outcome.

To identify or relate appropriate activities that lead to achieve the intended outcome.

A theory of change is a method that explains how a given intervention or set of interventions are expected to lead to specific developmental change, through a cause-and-effect analysis based on existing evidence.

The goals of TOC are ensuring that one can clearly communicate what the project is about, the end goal, what strategy will be used to achieve that end goal and what are the expected outcomes

The goal is to describe clearly whoch activties an organization does and to link these with outcomes that the organization wish to produce or create. The goal is to understand how an intervention leads to intermediate outcomes, which sometimes caused directly by the intervention itself, but mostly the Theory of change aims to understand the long term outcomes that an organization wants to create, this is very dofficult to assess because it may takemany years to occur.

inherent resilience and adaptability, supporting them in making rational, ethical, and healthy choices all along the way.

Theory of Change is to understand how the intended long term outcomes could be achieved with what activities.

Dear all peer,
Theory of Change means a course of action that implements systematically to achieve the desired outcomes.

With regards,
Ko Phyo

A Theory of Change represents the impact and changes that an organization or project wants to achieve and the steps that must have to be taken to accomplish it. It also expresses how we will measure these achievements. It can be represented in a diagram or text. Vanda

Clear and precise definition. Thank You.

One of the goals of theory of change is to help develop solutions to complex problems

A Theory of Change clarifies how you will create and measure change. It communicates strategy, focuses projects, measures outcomes and produces better outcomes.

I am worry about failing to take external context into account, because there is no activities and research conducted as our institution planned in the local context. This is complete pilot. To avoid this our institution is conducting assessments.

Agreed with the statement.

The main goal of Theory of Change is to ensure mistakes are not Implemented.

I support this. Very clear and to the point.

to address the question why the activities will lead to the desired outcome.

Theory of change process include a clear description of how interventions lead to intermediate and long term outcomes. and how these outcomes would be measured. It also outlines the change assumptions.