…is driving the ToCs discussion in DFID, and not always in a good way. So in my allotted 5 minutes, I stressed that ToCs should not become a ‘logframe on…
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…to use the tool to expand our understanding of change contexts, and another which views them as a “logframe on steroids”. As a DFID adviser highlighted, there appears to be…
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…yellow one – ‘Logical Frameworks’ (logframes). In all the jobs I have held, the only training that has ever stayed with me was a three-day course on logframes, held in…
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…processes.’ I’ve been worried for some time that Theories of Change will just degenerate into another box to tick – a logframe on steroids. But Craig’s paper shows how that…
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…‘logframe on steroids’ or exclusively technical approaches, and embrace the messy realities of the world in which we are trying to support the search for social accountability. Here are four…
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…echoes my misgivings] Theory of Change seems to be replacing logframes as the non-negotiable starting point in accessing and then accounting for funds. Like logframes, Theory of Change is presently…
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…to understand the limitations of the logframe. Logframe linearity assumes a ‘route-one’ style of play, or at least something similar to it, where the ball is kicked forward and forward…
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…a risk, if ToCs become so debased that they are no more than logframes on steroids. So in internal conversations, blogs etc I’m gradually fleshing out a description of a…
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…but also from concerns regarding the nature and functioning of the logframe, and results frameworks more generally. As far as the logframe is concerned, Chris Mellor, then in the Evaluation…
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…and consciously reflexive approaches. At the risk of gross generalization, the first group tends to treat ToCs as ‘logframes on steroids’, a useful tool to develop more complete and accurate…