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1a - a change experienced by someone, usually expressed and observed in terms of attitudes and behaviours. They can take place in any time frame, and lead towards impact on your change pathway. Identifying short- and long-term outcomes

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  1. Where can you start on the change pathway?

    1. Left side

    2. Right side

    3. Both

    4. Anywhere

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2d - anywhere! You can begin anywhere on the change pathway. If you are starting by designing a project, we recommend starting on the right. If you have already designed your project and are now designing your impact assessment, you might start on the left.

Step 2. Build your Change Pathway - the heart of Phase one

  1. What is an indicator?

    1. A way to measure the results of your activities

    2. A metric that allows your to measure if or to what extent an outcome has taken place

    3. How we describe the long-term change created by our activities

    4. The money that we invest in our activities.

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3b - an indicator is information that allows us to measure whether you are achieving your desired outcomes. You might develop one or more indicators for each outcome you have added to your change pathway.

Developing and measuring indicators of change Step 2. Develop your indicators

  1. What is an accountability line?

    1. A line that connects different outcomes on the Change Pathway.

    2. A way to describe when impact will happen.

    3. A way to make clear where you think you are directly responsible for outcomes and where you only contribute towards these.

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  1. What is impact?

    1. Change in the short-term.

    2. Change in the long-term for our stakeholders and wider society, for which we are not responsible but contribute towards.

    3. Change in the medium-term.

    4. Change for only my stakeholders, which we am are directly accountable for.

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7a - your stakeholders can benefit from or experience your activity both directly and indirectly. You might wish to measure impact for an indirect stakeholder, but mostly you will focus on someone who benefits directly from your activities. Step 1. Get to know your 'stakeholders'

  1. What is an output? 

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The tangible, quantifiable and measurable products and results delivered by your activities. Impact terminology

  1. The number of books digitised by a library in a year could be:

    1. An outcome

    2. An output

    3. Impact

    4. An indicator

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B and D! It could be both an output (the result of an activity) or an indicator (showing that a change has taken place). Impact terminology

  1. Which of the following are not in a change pathway?

    1. Strategic perspectives

    2. Outputs

    3. Stakeholders

    4. Impact

    5. Outcomes

    6. Value lenses

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A and F! These are tools that accompany the development of your change pathway, but they don’t sit inside it. Step 2. Build your Change Pathway

  1. Which of the following might be ‘impact’, according to the definition given in the Impact Playbook?

    1. Increase in library memberships following reduced fees.

    2. Growth in weekend visitor numbers at your museum after the introduction of family workshops.

    3. An end to global warming.

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11C - you are not solely responsible for the reduction of global warming, but through your work you may contribute to a reduction in, for example, your digital carbon footprint. Therefore, we see this as impact and not an outcome. What is impact?

  1. Which of the following is not an activity in your change pathway?

    1. Running a workshop.

    2. Starting a social media campaign.

    3. Conducting a survey to assess how your conference went.

    4. Digitising your collections.

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12C - sending a survey is a way of collecting data about your event. We describe this as a method. Your event would be the activity or output. Step 3. Choose your methods