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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.

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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.

Precise description @vandamedeiros

The goals of the theory of change process is to map out impact, outcomes and output of the organization's activities. Indicators for measuring success, and the discussion of risks and assumptions are an important component of the process.

The theory of change process defines the impact, outcomes and output of an organization. During the process, risks and assumptions, as well as indicators to measure success, are also defined.

The goal of a Theory of Change is to articulate your long term goals and to build pathways to actually get there with evaluation build in. All in service to being a more effective changemaker as an organization.

One of the goals of The Theory of Change is to avoid mistakes in the project planning.
The second goal is than allows to stakeholders to consider while developing a strategic plan or evaluation is.

Your answer is very clear and help us to a better understanding of what Theory of Change is.

The goal of Theory of Chnage is to define a pathway of change that will lead to attainment of the long term outcome; also known as impact.
Theory of change clearly defines the activities and their expected outcome for programs within the organization. Additionally, since it is prepared through a team; every member becomes aware of the outcomes map and can clearly define the organizations strategy.

This section explains how and why you might use a theory of change when commissioning and managing an evaluation. It explains options for how it will be developed or revised, how it will be represented, and how it will be used. You might be actively involved in these processes or oversight them. In either case it is important to be aware that there are choices to be made and that informed choices will produce more useful theory of change and better evaluation.

A theory of change explains how the activities undertaken by an intervention (such as a project, program or policy) contribute to a chain of results that lead to the intended or observed impacts. Other labels that your colleagues, partners and evaluators might use include: results chain, logic model, program theory, outcome mapping, impact pathway and investment logic.

the goals of theory of change are:

1. it helps avoid implementing a mistake.
2. it helps a group to build concensus on how success will be documented.
3. it helps program stakeholders develop a shared understanding of what they are trying to accomplish.

Theory of change is a process of finding out a set of interventions/activities/preconditions and how these lead to the achievement of intermediate goals which eventually result in the achievement of the long-term goal/impact that the project/programme want to achieve. It also presents a logical framework of the connections among preconditions/interventions/activities and the intermediate/long-term goals.

The Theory of Change is a methodology for clarifying how your organization’s activities link to outcomes

A process for exploring the reasoning behind your activities and outcomes

To draw a common understanding of the goals that all stakeholders want to achieve

The Theory of Change helps stakeholders to think through the underlying logic of the connections between activities, outputs and outcomes so as to avoid implementing a mistake. It also gives a good idea of how much work needs to be done in order to achieve the projected goal(s). This will help thinking through the resources required and better manage stakeholders expectations.

I agree with your succinct definition of this helpful tool

I agree with your definition

A theory of change is a mechanism or pathways which allow or shows how a certain problem or need is addressed by logically connecting interventions to the desired outcomes to achieve desired goal.

The goal of the theory of change is to link the activities that an organization does to the outcomes its wishes to produce and why these activities will lead to success.

Very true

Theory of change is the guiding light to avoid implementing mistakes. It creates a pathway from the need to the change.

The goal of the TOC is to articulate the process through which changes will occur, the specific ways in which all of the required early and intermediate outcomes related to achieving the ultimate desired long term change will be brought about, and documented as they occur.

i think the goal of theory of change is about estimating what risks and assumptions could affect the project cycle, and it's purpose to keep the project activities on track to aim the desired outcomes and impact.

Shared understanding of what they are trying to accomplish, by making everything clear to everyone involved.

Creating a pathway based on indicators and measuring outcomes to know the success rate

The Theory of Change is a method that can be used to think critically about what is required to bring about a desired social change. For others, it should explain how a group of stakeholders expects to reach a commonly understood long-term goal.

The main goal of Theory of Change is to help an organization to be results-oriented. It also serves as a reminder to consider the process which is vital in achieving the organization's goal.

Agree on this. Identifying risk and assumptions are essential part of developing Theory of Change.

A theory of change helps to establish the indicators for every outcome against which success is measured. It also helps to identify assumptions behind every activity and the linkage between one activity to the other.

A theory of change helps to establish the indicators for every outcome against which success is measured. It also helps to identify assumptions behind every activity and the linkage between one activity to the other.

I agree with this definition ; establishing the reason behind every activity in line with the intermediate and long term goal

I agree with this definition ; establishing the reason behind every activity in line with the intermediate and long term goal

Theory of change refers to bring impact through interventions

The goal is to get a cleat understanding of how the intervention will achieve what it intends.

The goal of Theory of Change is to explore the reasoning behind your organization activities and outcomes.

It is also a way to know whether your organization approach to addressing a problem is working

The goals of a theory of a changé are:

• To illustrate easily the connection between preconditions that bring about a long term change.
• To define indicators for measuring success
• To define necessary interventions that can bring out to the needed result.
• To think of assumptions that support the process.

A theory of change can be a helpful tool for developing solutions to complex social problems. At its most basic, a theory of change explains how a group of early and intermediate accomplishments sets the stage for producing long-range results

TOC is to predict exactly who or what is going to change, over what period of time, and by how much, at every single step in an often complex process.

The purpose of theory of change process is to see how your activities lead to longterm impact.

The objective of the theory of change is to study a problem and find a solution on the basis of hypotheses describing how the change should occur, the chain of early and intermediate realizations necessary to achieve this change in the long term within the limits of time, space and resources well-defined.

Dar sentido a las estrategias empleadas en los proyectos y en las organizaciones
Identificar como las actividades conducen de una manera lógica a los resultados

• Explorar la coherencia entre las actividades y los resultados planteados
• Dar sentido a las estrategias propuestas por los proyectos

• Explorar la coherencia entre las actividades y los resultados planteados
• Dar sentido a las estrategias propuestas por los proyectos

The goal of ToC is to process steps from the end of the initiatives, then think of sets of pre-conditions or assumptions that need to happen, all the way to present condition.

A theory of change helps program stakeholders develop a shared understanding of what they are trying to accomplish, by making everything clear to everyone involved.

The goals of the Theory of Change process include:

• development of a strategic plan;

• become explicit/realistic about the use of resources; and

• builds consensus on how success will be documented.

Nice succinct description of a Theory of Change.

A theory of change is a tool to help you describe a project’s pathway from the need you are trying to address to the changes you want to make (your outcomes) and what you plan to do (your activities).
It is often represented in a diagram or chart, but a full theory of change process involves more than this.
[The theory of change process] should help you consider and articulate the assumptions that lie behind your reasoning. [It should] address the question of why you think your activities will lead to the outcomes you want. It should also challenge you to develop clear aims and strategies and to explore whether your plans are supported by evidence.

1. Who are you seeking to influence or benefit (target population)?
2. What benefits are you seeking to achieve (results)?
3. When will you achieve them (time period)?
4. How will you and others make this happen (activities, strategies, resources, etc.)?
5. Where and under what circumstances will you do your work (context)?
6. Why do you believe your theory will bear out (assumptions)?

The theory of change is an activity who consists to change a field for another in order to get a better outcomes

Theory of Change is a theory of project planner to show the way of change that s/he want to bring by the project intervention.

The goal of ToC processes is to help stakeholders think critically about how their activities in the short/medium term will achieve their long term social change.

The Theory of change is a pathway that shows how a project will run from beginning to the end, what is to be achieved and how to know that the project was successful

A theory of change is a tool to help you describe a project’s pathway from the need you are trying to address to the changes you want to make (your outcomes) and what you plan to do (your activities).

the goals of the Theory of Change process are to identify the assumptions that need to be true for the project to succeed.

A Theory of Change is a way of mapping a desired impact or long term outcome that an organization or a community wants as a way of solving a problem. It both demonstrates the viability of interventions to effect the necessary preconditions to bring about this long term solution and the standards by which you measure these interventions to reflect accountability to stakeholders.

A Theory of Change is a guide to action: It is designed to show how targeted activities can lead to a long term solution by following the logic of cause and effect. It argues that the series of effects, or intermediate outcomes, must be necessary to the ultimate goal and these effects can be measured.

Very clear by way of brevity. This is true for many short answers on this TL. But I keep thinking why specifically, as the question asks us, what is an "accurate justification" for this mapping? This is definitely not an issue with this particular answer. I struggled with it.

Theory of Change is a methodology for planning, participation, and evaluation that is used in companies, philanthropy, not-for-profit and government sectors to promote social change. Theory of Change defines long-term goals and then maps backward to identify necessary preconditions.