What is a Theory of Change (ToC)?
A Theory of Change sets out ‘a comprehensive description and illustration of how and why a desired change is expected to happen in a particular context’. Taken from Theoryofchange.org https://www.theoryofchange.org/what-is-theory-of-change/
But that’s what a change pathway does, I hear you cry! To some degree, yes. The very linear change pathway is based on a logic model or log frame, a format that, ‘has been around for several decades and was the first widespread attempt to depict programme components so that activities are matched to outcomes’ (Anne-Murray Brown, 2016). Yet a ToC builds on the main components of the Change Pathway in a more comprehensive way. It is useful to map out complex organisational-level or strategic change, rather than project-level change. The two, however, are complementary.
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