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the question asked.was on the goal of theory of change and not the definition. Your answers to the question show that you clearly understood this. well articulated and I give you a thumb up.

Theory of Change process are the methods of arranging an organization activities to achieve expected results.

Theory of Change is an illustration that shows how paths of change towards the attainment of the project or organization long term goal.

It consist of pre conditions and pathways showing the lowest level of outputs and outcomes towards the long term goal

the goals of the theory of change process are linking the reason of the organization activities with the expectation outcomes. The outcomes could be long-term, and intermediate. Also including some intervention as the activity, and brings the group or/of the organization assumption toward the change.

The goal is for everyone involved to have a mutual understanding of what the wanted longtime outcome is and how to get there.

Theory of change is to help the people in the organization understand and know what to do to achieve the ultimate goal and how and when to do them. It also expands the understanding of people in the organization in areas regarding the ultimate goal and gives a clear picture of how to go about it.

The goal of a TOC is help users see the end result of their processes and steps on how their overall goal can be achieved.

The goal of a TOC is help users see the end result of their processes and steps on how their overall goal can be achieved.

The goals of a Theory of Change are to clearly define a path from the activities of an organization to the impact it hopes to achieve.

Introduction. Theory of change is a rigorous yet participatory process whereby groups and stakeholders in a planning process articulate their long-term goals and identify the conditions they believe have to unfold for those goals to be met.
A theory of change is a description of why a particular way of working will be effective, showing how change happens in the short, medium and long term to achieve the intended impact. It can be represented in a visual diagram, as a narrative or both.

The theory of change is a process in place to define how you get from A to Z, and beyond, to build a route on how you can be the most successful to get to your endgame of a your envisioned outcome. It's a plan to be able to grow and change through steps that ensure a bigger thinking of how you want to proceed in making your business the most part it can be.

The theory of change is a process in place to define how you get from A to Z, and beyond, to build a route on how you can be the most successful to get to your endgame of a your envisioned outcome. It's a plan to be able to grow and change through steps that ensure a bigger thinking of how you want to proceed in making your business the most part it can be.

When a theory of change is built around the wrongs assumptions--even the most elaborate pathway of change can fall apart...

I mean, this sentence is super resonating to really any subject you cover in life. It shows that having a strong vision of what you want can really affect the outcome of anything in any way.

The theory of change goals are to help individuals focus on desired outcome of a purpose while preparing ways to measure success and by redirecting attention to the intended goal. To avoid set backs from generalized ideas, theory of change offers solutions to connect with specific result through establishing pathways that are clear to everyone involved.

Well stated. Great to see the word accountability included. It's quite often overlooked, and responsibilities are passed onto the next person. This truly helps a team thrive when everyone can contribute and take accountable actions for the greater good.

The goals of the theory of change process include engaging stakeholders to build a pathway that shows activities, outcomes and success factors as well as how they interact to lead to a long term goal. Along the way, the goals of consensus building, assumptions exploration, shared understanding and expectations management are achieved.

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

The theory of change defines long-term goals and maps backwards to identify the necessary assumptions.

To objectively assess the actual long-term outcome/goal of a strategic plan, and realistically assess the required resources and time frames needed to achieve these and what success would translate into.

Goal for theory of change is true picture of the change you have caused or impact of the desired activities

theory of change helps to outline a clear pathway to be followed from the pre-intervention stage to the outcome stage. it helps identify the activities needed to achieve the changes.

Theory of Change goals are to define why you think activities will lead to particular outcomes in order to determine the best interventions to invest in, to achieve the greatest impact.

The process encourages the development of a shared understanding of what you want to accomplish, how you plan to demonstrate and achieve the necessary steps to reach the Long Term Goal (by identifying the who, what and how will help or hinder). TOC process requires brave & honest conversations to test ideals and assumptions against the realities facing the target group so that the Pathway of Change reflects the community/context they are navigating.

i think all of the senteces is important.

Hello, I am TS. I enjoy the field of community development and am currently working with an organization undergoing change. I have been asked to participate in the process and remembered the Theory of Change from my school days. I am excited to learn more about it and put these lessons into action as my organization moves forward.

The goals of the Theory of Change are to utilize a mindful structure of preconditions, indicators, and interventions to think through and map the pathway to a long term goal.

I appreciate your description. It explains the process very well.

The goal is to clearly define how much effort or work is required to reach to achieve the long term goal and what actually can be done keeping in view the available resources and time

The goals of the theory of change process: assist stakeholders to align on the desired nature and quantum of change,; assess the type of resources required to deliver the required change (intermediate and long-term); as well as identify factors within and outside of their control, which could impact or delay the path of change.

the goal of a TOC is to think the result chain of any intervention by takling the root problem and outlining risks and assumptions/

ToC gives an overview of the project design, interventions and results. So it builds the foundation for project stakeholders to plan and manage the project.

In my understanding, I think the goal of the Theory of Change process is to identify and plot the pathway of change or the results the organization want to achieve in the short-run (intermediate or outcomes) and in the long-run (impact or goal)

It is a clearer representation of the organization's results and how it flows from its intervention to results.

This is just apt

The only way we can move forwards is with open and honest discussion. We should not judge but be open minded to listen to the otherside, wear their shoes as we mull through their suggestions bearing in mind it is all for the good of the organisation.

it is for changing outcomes of an Intervention to a sustainable situation for target community

To help develop solutions to complex social problems

The goals of Theory of Change process are to find solutions to a problem and develop a clear path or guidelines on how to achieve the organizational goals and objectives.

Theory of Change is a tool enabling to visualize the connection between the current problematic situation and the changed improved future situation. Specifically, Theory of Change enables the efficient and effective planning of the "changing" process through a clear explication of the underlying assumptions that lie behind the reasoning. The entire process enables the emergence of all the necessary and sufficient preconditions needed to achieve the identified outcome(s).

The Theory of Change defines the long-term goal of any actions to be taken with the aim of producing a change in a specific field of application and in a long-term. It provides a map of all the preconditions, that need to be in place for the long-term change to occur.

the goals of the Theory of Change process are the things the M&E team intends to achieve while developing a theory of change

The goals of the Theory of Change are: to enable stakeholders to ponder additional questions and question underlying logic while developing a strategic plan; to force stakeholders to be explicit about how resources will be leveraged to achieve preconditions (intermediary goals) required on the journey to the long-term result; to build consensus and aligned understanding on how success will be documented; and to ensure refinement/critical analysis of areas of the strategy that may be vague.

I do not belong to any organisation at the moment but I will refer to my previous job.
One thing that my organisation didn't create a learning agenda, we never really took the time to sit and refresh our theory of change instead we just focused mainly on the logframe and updated it.

The goals of the Theory of Change are: helping organizations focus on their programs, produce better outcomes, measure outcomes and communicate their strategies.

A Theory of change is a process that communities can take to think critically about their long term goals for social change. The process includes identifying clear long term goals, outcomes and preconditions ( and assumptions of what is needed) to make their goals a reality.

The goal of TOC is to communicate clearly how program activities will lead to impact

The theory of change is a tool that helps to track the change from the project idea up to the measuring of impact

Theory of change is a tool that describes how organizations' activities or interventions lead to long term outcomes or impacts.

Theory of change is a tool that describes how organizations' activities or interventions lead to long term outcomes or impacts.

I worry that my organization might specify targeted population because final users are confusing groups. To avoid this, I will take the distribution channel into account.

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To help the organization know the amount of work that needs to be done to achieve the desired outcome versus the amount of work that can be done with available resources.

Theory of change is a strategic to way to ensure sustainablity and viability of a program. Thanks to it you able to make sure that the stragy used is responding to critical questions.

Theory of change is the process of determining the impact your organization wishes to have and the activities that the organization must do and outcomes of those activities that will eventually have the desired impact

Theory of change is a tool which provides a methodology to think through, write and represent the project's pathway from activityes, to preconditions, to long term outcomes. The main goals are to focus on the main outcome, clarify and communicate the strategy, produce better results, and measure them.

This is a very clear response, thanks!

A theory of change can be a helpful tool for developing solutions to complex social problems.

The goal of theory of change process are pathways of shot term and log term outcomes through our activities.

communicate the strategy towards the realization of a project goal.
Its a tool used to measure outcomes.

The main goal of Theory of Change is to map out how desired the change will happen, this includes pathways of change, outcomes assumptions and interventions as well as how success can be measured.

The main goal of Theory of Change is to map out how desired the change will happen, this includes pathways of change, outcomes assumptions and interventions as well as how success can be measured.

The main goal of Theory of Change is to map out how desired the change will happen, this includes pathways of change, outcomes assumptions and interventions as well as how success can be measured.

The goal of the theory of change process is to thoroughly assess actions in the planning, implementation and evaluation to maximize positive impact or outcome. It aims to see the reasoning of how and why a desired change will bring impact.

well said

The goal of ToC process is to make guideline to clear step in design a change movement. The guideline to make objective and systematic design. They have cross check in every step. That detail thing helps user to create effective activity that orientation to goal achieve. This’s design make sure each element; outcome, precondition, and intervention, has right connection, who support each other.

The goals of theory of change are to identify what is needed for the change, reflect assumptions and risks, and identify partners and actors.

Well stated.

The theory of change is a very useful tool that helps guide how, who and what is required to bring about
a desired change in a more effective and efficient way.

A theory of change is a description of why a particular way of working will be effective, showing how change happens in the short, medium and long term to achieve the intended impact.

The theory of change can be considered as the masterpiece of every organization to attend the goal by establishing a good linking of the activities to the outcomes

A theory of change (ToC) process aims to help teams understand how their interventions lead to the needed preconditions for them to actualize their goal. Through this process teams are able to articulate the assumptions that ground their model and different linkages within the pathway of change. ToCs also ensure that all team members align to the group think to ensure everyone is working towards the same goal. Ultimately, a good ToC will enable teams to implement, efficiently utilize resources and measure program success.

I agree with you submission.

The goals of the theory of change process are 1. to explore the key preconditions and interventions to solve a key problem that the organization have intended to solve and 2. track the progress to that goal.

A theory of change helps you to identify the outcome and preconditions, indicators and interventions that are essential for your program to be successful and should be aligned with data collected. It is easy for you to understand and be aligned on how the programs should be run. And also it helps the team to articulate and discuss how to implement the program in keeping with its mission an goals.

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

Interesting to learn the process creating theory of change

Interesting to learn the process of creating ToC

The goals of the Theory of Change process seek to define all of the necessary and sufficient interventions required to bring about a given long term outcome. This activity creates a set of connected outcomes known as a “pathway of change”. A “pathway of change” explains the change process as it is understood by the initiative planners and is the foundation around which the other elements of the theory are developed.

This is very clear and self explanatory.

The theory of change is a tool that helps to illustrate the pathway of project/organization: what actions we need to take and what results we want to achieve.

The goals of the Theory of Change process are:
-To help identify solutions to address problems that inhibit progress
-To help guide decision making on the best approach to take

The following are the goals for theory of change:

1. To identify the project intermediate and long-term outcomes before deciding on activities that make them achievable.
2. Theory of change enables us to come up with and test assumptions that support the project pathway for effecting change.

I love the simplicity with which you have identify the goals. Indeed, TOC facilitates and guides discussions during formative stages of project planning.

I love the simplicity with which you have identify the goals. Indeed, TOC facilitates and guides discussions during formative stages of project planning. However, I would ,like to learn more about how you can use it to discuss hindrance to progress.

A Theory of Change defines a process of planned societal change, from the assumptions that drive its design to the long-term goals it attempts to attain. Impact organizations that have developed a change theory do so to make it easier for them to find logical linkages between actions and outcomes.

The biggest risk my organization faces is to think that we have everything figured out with respect to out interventions, preconditions, and the long term outcomes. Reasons for this assumption is failure to factor in uncertainties in underlying our plans. To avoid this, my organization shall endeavor to be a learning organization and hence develop a learning agenda which will ensure we have hypotheses to test at a given frequency

The Theory of Change aids one in articulating how certain preconditions and intermediate actions can lead to an agreed change.

The goals of Theory of Change is to clarify what are the changes that you intend to bring about, how you are going to bring those changes and how are you going to measure if those changes have led to your final outcome.

The goal is to to promote social change.

Theory of Change explains the process of change by outlining causal linkages in an initiative, i.e., its shorter-term, intermediate, and longer-term outcomes.

The goals of the Theory of Change process are to create a framework to evaluate how efficient are the interventions to achieve 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).

The goal of creating a theory of change is to help with the planning and evaluating social interventions
Secondly, Using a theory in this way can
help an organization structure its learning
process, drawing out lessons that can improve
its work, and it can also provide useful insights
for the field.

The goals of the Theory of Change process are to create clarity about the complex way the intended change is supposed to happen, to bring it close to reality and to develop a share understanding about it among stakeholders.

The goal of theory of change in an organization is to help to describe project pathways from the need they are trying to address to the changes they want to make.

The goal of the theory of change is to demonstrate how an organization or a program will achieve its vision by exploring activities involved.

Theory of Change is a tool to help describe a project's pathway from the needs an organization is trying to address to the outcome.
Theory of Change links organization's activities to the intending long term outcome

To clearly define the longer term outcomes your firm wishes to achieve and the specific and measurable actions that need to be completed to get there.

I agree that the clarity of interventions is necessary for all to be on the sme page

A theory of change intends to describe project's pathway,the need one tries to address,the outcome and activities done to achieve the defined outcomes

Create space to logically examine a particular program and context. Hypothesize. Encourage critical, creative, & empathetic thinking on how the world works and how programs may work, or fail to work, in that world.

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 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.