Theories of change in reality : strengths, limitations and future directions /
"For over fifty years, evaluators have used theories of change to articulate the causal logic underpinning how an intervention is intended to bring about a desired change. From its origins in program evaluation, the approach has been adopted more widely for purposes from programme design to pro...
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New York, NY :
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2024.
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Table of Contents:
- Foreword / Emily Gates, Kiruba Murugaiah, and Kathy Chau Rohn
- Introduction / Andrew Koleros, Marie-Hélène Adrien, Tony Tyrrell
- Considerations in using theories of change to establish causality. Setting the stage for contribution claims / Thomas Delahais
- Using theories of change to assess causality in a policy change context / Carlisle J. Levine
- My perspective on theories of change / Markus Palenberg
- Theories of change between critical thinking and social practices / Peter Dahler-Larsen
- How deep is your ontology? How ontological thinking can strengthen how evaluators use theories of change / Tom Ling
- Using theories of change to understand wider social change processes. Theory of change for sustainable business / Jens Andersson
- Upcycling theory of change for impact investment and early stage ventures / Penny Hawkins and Zazie Tolmer
- Strategy-level theories of change require a focus on systems change: an actorbased approach can help / Andrew Koleros
- Evaluating the use of artificial intelligence and big data in policy making: Unpacking black boxes and testing white boxes / Frans L. Leeuw
- Developing, representing and using theories of change for interventions in complex systems / Patricia Rogers
- Adapting theories of change for use in broader public policy contexts. Theories of change in evaluation of local government reforms / Kurt Houlberg and Olaf Rieper
- Theories of change and the evaluation of sustainable impact: Moving beyond simplicity in development cooperation / Peter van der Knapp
- Use of theory of change as a management tool for government multi-year development plans: the case of Brazil's Federal Development Plan / Lycia Lima and Marina Lafer
- Theories of Change in complex macro public-sector planning settings in Africa: How useful are they? / Candice Morkel
- Simple heuristics for drafting theories of change: A case of behavioural insights into food waste / Karol Olejniczak and Igor Lyubashenko
- Applying theories of change approaches for multiple purposes. The law of the instrument: Would you rather be a theory or a nail? / Gordon Freer
- ie: a 'balloon-squeezing' approach to the theory of change / Marie Moland Gaarder
- Integrating theories of change in programme management and delivery / Mark Oldenbeuving
- Theories of change: Who needs them? Or: What evaluators can learn from opera / Burt Perrin
- How to ensure no-one uses your theory of change: Lessons from the front lines of theory of change facilitation and possibilities for renewal / Mary Tangelder
- Why do we have theories of change of the program intervention but not of the intervention that is the evaluation? / Bob Williams
- Developing theories of change that reflect multiple stakeholder perspectives. Participatory explorations of alternative futures: Using narrative theories of
- change / Rick Davies, Lara Mani and Tom Hobson
- Constructing a living theory of change in fluid and volatile environments: Grounded on context, problem and evidence / Hur Hassnain
- Flipping the script on program theories: Advancing towards transformative theories of change / Sebastian Lemire
- Theory-based evaluation approaches can enable online project success / Steve Montague, Heloise Emdon and Eva Grabinski
- Theory of change as a tool for tracking Intensive Family Programme developments in Whitetown / Jane Mulcahey, Catherine Naughton and Sean Redmond
- Conclusions around theories of change in reality / Andrew Koleros, Marie-Hélène Adrien, Tony Tyrrell.