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Which group of people will be What are some questions that you would like to ask this group of people?

Project beneficiares are most important stakeholder to speak to as we refine our Theory of Change.

The following questions can be asked to the group:
What type of service they expect from the intervention?
What preconditions should be produced to make a positive change in the life of the beneficiaries?
Waht is the dream of thier life ?(long term outcomes)

The group of people in the community, asked them any feedback because their feedback help also on how to improve the implementation of a theory of change

BRAINSTORMING
Brainstorming is a collaboration and very important with your team in order to have found that the easiest way to reach a consensus on the various dimensions captured by a long-term goal is to allow the group to brainstorm about it for twenty minutes and then begin the process of constructing the definition of the long-term goal from the results of the brainstorming.

After the beneficiaries view my Theory of Change, they should e able to understand; what specific changes (or outcomes) will occur to/in them should they take part in the project and what specific interventions will be implemented (in the various target areas/pathways of cause)...

this so key as it is one of the bases donors use to give out funds

it must not really be everyone, but some people at each stage

apart from a project being successful, it must also be sustainable in the long run

a) Partners
b) Some questions I would ask them include the following;
How effective has your Theory of Change been?
In what ways does it compare to ours?
Are there any suggestions of how our Theory of Change can be improved?
What measure have you taken to help you operationalize your Theory of Change?
In what ways (and areas) have you updated your Theory of Change?

very true

Funders must actually have the a huge say on the final Theory of Change, based on what they envisioned being achieved

Which group of people will be most important to speak to as you refine your Theory of Change?
A focus group discussion could be set up for the beneficiaries to set up the or redefining the theory of change.

A focus group discussion will be the best approach to explore

After funders view my theory of change, they should understand whether the theory of change is suitable or not to give funding.

I will choose stakeholders such as UNDP, Practicing evacuators and YEEs to collect feedback and refine my Theory of Change. After all they are the ones who is going to fund us and then be the implementers

Most importantly, monitoring and evaluation, partners and beneficiaries groups will be effective while refining the Theory of Change. I would ask monitoring and evaluation team, whether the precondition, longtime outcome are measurable and would ask to partners and beneficiaries are the intervention designed are really feasible to implement? and with the board members whether the Theory of Change align with company vision or not.

Most importantly, monitoring and evaluation, partners and beneficiaries groups will be effective while refining the Theory of Change. I would ask monitoring and evaluation team, whether the precondition, longtime outcome are measurable and would ask to partners and beneficiaries are the intervention designed are really feasible to implement? and with the board members whether the Theory of Change align with company vision or not.

Most importantly, monitoring and evaluation, partners and beneficiaries groups essential while refining Theory of Change. I would ask monitoring and evaluation team are the outcome and preconditions are measure-able and with the partners and beneficiaries whether the interventions are feasible to implement.

After donors view my theory of change document, they will understand that we have a clear purpose and direction

Target beneficiaries are very important stakeholders that can help refine our Theory of change. Important question i would ask include do you think providing you these services would lead to these pre-conditions? Are these services sufficient to provie these pre-conditions?

After funders view my theory of Change should understand that the outcomes would be beneficial to to target group and would change the lives of the community

Beneficiaries and Donors are the most important stake holders that needs to speak to as the theory of Change is being refined, some of the questions they need to be asked are; as the pathway captured their interests? and are the outcomes being represented in the plan?

the current version is adequate for planning purposes but needs more detail for an evaluation

It’s amazing how the process of answering simple questions can help you uncover so much complexity. It’s rather like a child lifting a large stone to reveal all kinds of creep crawly things that they never knew existed. Unfortunately, when developing a Theory of Change (ToC) we don’t have the choice, like children, to leave those things alone we don’t like the look of. Developing a ToC gives us the opportunity to address problems, complexity, and opportunities that exist within a programme and to think about how these issues can be monitored and evaluated.

Sometimes it’s difficult to find the right questions at the right time, and this is very true of when it comes to developing a ToC. Often people are thrown into a room together and quite simply asked to get going (without little facilitation or support). The following questions are intended to help guide people in that exact scenario. The questions can be largely treated as sequential, but there are no hard and fast rules in developing a ToC (sometimes it’s necessary to come from a different angle), so if you need to follow a different path these questions are interchangeable.

The majority of these questions are inspired by work that has been done within the advocacy world where pre-determined changes are sought using objective evidence. As such, this provides useful insights that can be applied to the research uptake process.

After the beneficiaries read the Theory of change, they should understand, how the strategy will improve their lives, their contribution to the positive change in their communities, how we value their input, how best to offer best services to them

Program implementing staff, the executive directors, the managers, the beneficiaries, donors or partners.
I would ask them what we can change so that we achieve our set targets and outcomes, which suitable strategies can we use.

After funders view my theory of change they should be more likely to understand how we plan to make impact and this should make them more eager to fund us.

When the team members view the Theory of change they should become better brand ambassadors

After volunteers read my theory of change report, they will better understand the goals of our work.

People who can help us improve our theory of change are those who have not been fully involved in the definition process, it can be the organization's management team, or a group of donors. They will be able to help us to detect assumptions, vague objectives, unclear diagrams, that is, all the areas of opportunity that our project has to improve it.

After our partners view my Theory of Change, they should understand whether and how we share common goal, beliefs, strategies and tactics in the same way.

After the donor reviews our Theory of Change, they should understand our long-term expected outcomes, the pathway of change, and how we can align those outcomes to the projects/programs they funded.

1. The donors
2. How relevant is this TOC to fit to the TOC of your organization/country development program?

After Partners view my theory of Change, they should clearly understand if we have the same objectives, preconditions and assumptions for a specific intervention. If we share the same view, stated in the Theory of Change, that means that our partnership has chances to be successful.

They should understand the meaning of quality education its uses and impacts on our society

They should understand the meaning of quality education its uses and impacts on our society

They should understand the meaning of quality education its uses and impacts on our society

They should understand the meaning of quality education its uses and impacts on our society

In order to refine my theory of change, I will invite some beneficiaries and local / technical partner to share their feedback on my draft theory of change. I will ask them if the long term outcome is valuable or not and if not valuable, what else, do the preconditions lead to the long-term outcome, if there are other preconditions... I will ask them if the assumptions are still valid or no more, if there are new assumptions; I will ask them about the indicators with some questions such as is it a practical indicator, is it adequate, objective... and will ask them about the data collection method that we chose.

Beneficiaries

After donors view my Theory of Change, they should understand why investing money in your interventions will lead to positive outcomes and how feasible is the change we want to create.

A long-term outcome tied to your organization’s mission.
Intermediate outcomes or preconditions that need to be achieved in order to create your long-term outcome.
Interventions or activities that will produce preconditions.
Indicators for measuring whether the outcomes in the pathway of change are achieved.
Assumptions that explain what you believe about why your interventions can and will lead to outcomes.
A pathway of change that shows how each of these elements interacts.

After reading goal and pathway of change, beneficiaries will understand how project will contribute to their society and life.

Partners- they should clearly understanding their role as partners so as to enable them cope with the change
Although each partnership agreement differs based on business objectives, certain terms should be detailed in the document, including percentage of ownership, division of profit and loss, length of the partnership, decision making and resolving disputes, partner authority, and withdrawal or death of a partner.

Stakeholders and beneficiaries are the best audience to communicate for taking inputs for refining our theory of change, as they have intensive knowledge about changing situation of their society.

Focus on the staff of the institution (Executive and Program staff),
Both new and existing staff benefit from having a clear pathway of change/ theory of change of the institution and how each intervention/ activity contributes to the overall goal of the institution. This is highly motivating as the path way of change diagram can show the staff or volunteers how what they are doing is contributing to the big picture.
How their interventions are assessed and appraised.
This planning leads staff to deliver services more efficient and also cost effective way. Allow staff to targeted the most appropriate areas of interventions. The staff able to evaluate the impact effectively and to identify what is working well and what may need to be refined.

Partners who are explicitly collaborating with the institution.
It is important to understand whether proposed interventional, specially the new interventions make conflicting, competitive space between partners that interrupt the mutual benefits.
Any strong disagreement for an instance when different partner organizations have different agendas for involvement.
Partners assist to ensure that the process is adequately inclusive of relevant perspectives, values and evidence.
They will provide more evidence of similar projects and programs, that could inform the theory of change.
To review how plausible the change path and the contribution that they could bring up.

Local partner in area of intervention.
A local NGO or association who wants to improve social condition locally needs to understand our vision and mission. Through the Theory of change we can show to these partners our strategy and the way to reach our goal. It is a method to share not only our strategy but to embrace a common outcome.

Beneficiaries can be a great starting point to redefine or adapt a ToC. Based on the needs and te assumptions of beneficiaries we can think alternatively and integrate/substitute some interventions.

Beneficiaries can be a great starting point to redefine or adapt a ToC. Based on the needs and te assumptions of beneficiaries we can think alternatively and integrate/substitute some interventions.

After founders view my Theory of Change, they should understand our strategic priorities.

after donor views my ToC, it should understand my strategy and how I wanna achieve it and what kind of innovation I'm putting in place, so they will give me funds to do it.

Beneficiaries must be included in the ToC process. I would ask them what are their issues related to the problem that my NGO wanna work on. It is important this step, because we don't have to forget that we are doing the project for our beneficiaries. Of course our project shouldn't just work on the specific issues put in place by our beneficiaries.

After funders view my Theory of Change they should understand that we engage homeless and slum children and youth in football games and use football as an interventional tool to make them realise the importance of formal education in improving their standard of living and charting out a bright future. The same way we would equip them with basic cognitive life skills, improve their awareness levels of civic issues that impact them in their daily lives and educate them on their rights and duties to become a productive member of the mainstream society.

This is not releveant to the task at hand.

needs to be elaborated

The answer is too cryptic. It needs to be elaborated.

We would like to speak to our beneficiaries and would like to ask them whether our envisaged outcomes are proving useful and effective. They may also like to suggest alternate outcomes for inclusion which they feel will benefit them more or additionally. Whe may also seek their views on sufficiency of preconditions.

That is quite a practical perspective as measuring of outcomes is key to evaluating the success of the program.

After our partners from other departments view the Theory of Change, they should understand the causal pathway of change in order to achieve the long-term outcome. They also should understand what actions (interventions) need to be taken at each intermediate outcome as they will be our partners leading some of these steps. They will need to work out how to make the indicators measurable. For this, they will also need to understand the contextual factors and the underlying assumptions.

After our partners from other departments view the Theory of Change, they should understand the causal pathway of change in order to achieve the long-term outcome. They also should understand what actions (interventions) need to be taken at each intermediate outcome as they will be our partners leading some of these steps. They will need to work out how to make the indicators measurable. For this, they will also need to understand the contextual factors and the underlying assumptions.

After our partners from other departments view the Theory of Change, they should understand the causal pathway of change in order to achieve the long-term outcome. They also should understand what actions (interventions) need to be taken at each intermediate outcome as they will be our partners leading some of these steps. They will need to work out how to make the indicators measurable. For this, they will also need to understand the contextual factors and the underlying assumptions.

Background information: Our team at the Department of Sports Medicine at a university in Germany would like to develop a prevention programme to promote physical activity in primary schools.

• Teachers & headmastesr of school: It is important to involve this group, as they are the ones who will later implement the prevention programme. It will be their responsibility to share their experiences so that the project developed can actually be implemented in daily practice. I would ask them if we have identified all the intermediate goals. What challenges will we face in implementing the programme in daily practice?
• The pupils (target group): I think it is especially important to ask the pupils. They are the target group. Children often have a clear idea of what they like and what they do not like. I would like to ask them what exercises they particularly like and at what time they would like to perform them.

After beneficiaries view my theory of change, they should understand, that should they comply to my strategies and my assumptions taken write, the life expectancy of people living with HIV should be with in a range of 5years of the normal life expectancy, and there will be no new case of HIV within 10years

After funders view my Theory of Change, they should understand what kind of problems am addressing and what impact is it likely to bring in the community.

The group that would be most important as we refine our theory of change are the BENEFICIARIES. One of the question we would ask them is how well does the intervention meet their present needs. This would help put our assumptions to check and do possible adjustments.

My audience would be the funders. After viewing my Theory of Change, they should understand the interventions that would lead to outcomes and outcomes that would lead to the impact/goal.

My audience would be the funders. After viewing my Theory of Change, they should understand the interventions that would lead to outcomes and outcomes that would lead to the impact/goal.

I would like to speak to the funders and beneficiaries.

I would ask the funders whether our outcomes are meetings their expectations or they have any suggestions for the Organisation.

I would ask the beneficiaries whether their situations have changed for the better since they got involved in the programme.

After my beneficiaries view my Theory of Change, they should understand the significance the outcomes will play in their lives and trading experience.

I compared the TOC in Japan and the Hunger Project.

The Hunger TOC was easier to understand it showed a diagram with flow chart arrows clearly drawn and the main stages of interventions, pre-conditions and outcomes could be traced.

However, for the TOC in Japan the diagrams were not easy to interpret.

To refine my theory of change Ill like to speak with the beneficiaries to establish whether or not they are receiving any gains.

Questions would be about what their gains are and what they'll like to be included in assisting them achieve their set goals.

After donors view my Theory of Change, they should understand why investing money in my interventions will lead to ending the domestic violence.

donors and beneficiairies

After board members viewing the Theory of Change, they should understand that a project needs path of change, indicators, interventions and assumptions well organized to achieve a long term goal

1. Donors
2. Beneficiaries
   Question 1: Are the contents of the theory of change align with the donors objective
   Question 2: Are the path way of change meeting your expectations as a beneficiary

After funders view the ToC, they should be able to get information on the project goal and the strategies intended to achieve the goal and thus be more convinced that their funding may cause impact.

To review a theory of change you may talk to:

Funders-to understand their shift in funding
Beneficiaries: to understand if the current activities are impacting
Researchers: to incorporate contemporary evidence

If we put so much effort to the TOC planning, it should be something like reflecting mirror of project. people can easily understand what we are trying to do how and when

The stakeholders.
Is our main goals representing your problems?
is there any assumptions you want to make?

To refine my theory of change Ill like to speak with the beneficiaries to establish whether or not they are receiving any gains.

partners to understand whether and how you share common goals, strategies and tactics

Beneficiaries: These are the people who will have impact in my organization. They will contribute to the outcome of my organization by participating in all the activities.

After my straff members view my Theory of Change, they should understand why we aim to end poverty in the communities we work with.

The most group of people that I will be most speaking to are the team of Managers. The questions I will likely be asking are:

• What do you think about the ToC we created?
• Are we progressing towards achieving the outcomes?
• Is there any refining it?

After the donors have read my theory of change they will understand why we need so much background to guarantee the success of our activities and also the link between the activities that will be carried out and how these will allow us to achieve the results. discount.

After Board Members' view our theory of change (ToC), they should know that (a) the long term goal of the initiative under discussion is tied to the mission of our organization, (b) the plausibility of the interventions and intermediate outcomes, (c) the feasibility of measuring the outcomes, (d) the resource implications of the initiative, (e)the logic (assumptions) behind the selections of the interventions and intermediate outcomes, and (f) the interrelationships between the various intermediate outcomes as well as between the intermediate outcomes and long term outcome.

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Weiss popularized the term “Theory of Change” as a way to describe the set of assumptions that explain both the mini-steps that lead to the long-term goal and the connections between program activities and outcomes that occur at each step of the way.

The beneficiaries would be the most important stakeholder group to involve in revisiting the ToC. One of the main reasons for emphasizing the beneficiaries is that they are the target the change that the project is working on or they are the ones expected to benefit from the success of the project in question. Questions that need to be asked of them for effective revisiting of the ToC should include: is the expected change in the life of the beneficiaries happening? Are the project interventions being implemented in a way that they will deliver the preconditions/outcomes? Do beneficiaries find the intervention meaningful and promising to deliver the preconditions? Are the outcomes still relevant for them?

Executives should know the change proposed and actions needed

field officers as they know detailed work

After funders view my TOC, they should understand our core business, our target population and how we expect to work to improve their lives. The what, who and how are important questions for funders to determine whether their funding windows align with our value proposition.

After meeting my audience to view my Theory of Change, they should understand activities they need to do to towards the outcome

young mothers stakeholder.
id inquire what they need and not want for change strategy in the area

After donors view my theory of change,they understand what the organization aims to achieve and how we wish to achieve them

Stakeholders, donors team mates
To know what they are thinking about the new theory of change

After the ministry of education view my theory of change, they should understand my long-term goals, the pathway and the interventions needed to achieve this goal

after donors and the beneficiaries view my TOC, they should understand that waste management not only just for unprofitable but environmentally beneficial, but also profitable as material base income for target population and other stakeholders.

After team, board member, and partners view my TOC, they should understand that waste management not only as our core of vision, but also brings up our legitimate and professionally expertise to our organization and ourselves as who work here.

after volunteers see my TOC, they should understand that waste management is long process of work but brings extraordinary impact to our socio-ecological improvement.

Stakeholders, Audiences, Donors, Partners, Target and Service Population.

what are they assumption toward the TOC process? what are they feel about this progress? How it could be if this TOC progress comes to near the long-term outcome?

After active members view my Theory of Change, they should understand that the time and work they put in the organisation will help to produce results and also which results.

After active members view my Theory of Change, they should understand that the time and work they put in the organisation will help to produce results and also which results.