A small companion to 040 Outcome harvesting ((outcome harvesting)), which argues that the harvest belongs to people. It does, and you cannot always get the people in a room about everything for as lon…

Abstract Suppose an evaluation team has a corpus of interviews and progress reports, plus (at least) two candidate theories of change (ToCs): an original one and a revised one. A practical question is…

2026 01 08 The partner{.banner} We partnered with INTRAC on a project for the SCC (Strengthening Civil Society) programme. This programme is led by a consortium of four organisations: PAX, ABAAD, Defe…

Marshalling causal evidence at scale for Contribution Analysis and beyond. {.banner} start multi column: PowerTool {.panel} Causal Mapping is not primarily an evaluation method; it is a way of identif…

Contribution analysis is about testing and refining a theory of change to build a credible case for contribution. It's focused on a specific theory of change and on the contributions to outcomes. Thes…

To evaluate a program, the evaluator can use Contribution Analysis (CA) [@mayneMakingCausalClaims2012]. We start with a program logic or Theory of Change (ToC), consisting of possible pathways from in…

010 Testing rival theories ((theory fit))|The theory fit paper takes rival published theories and asks which the material supports. 020 Realist mechanisms ((realist mechanisms))|The realist paper star…

!100 Task 3 Answering questions Individual questions/img/screenshot 110 does the evidence support your theory of change qq testing theory.png One way to do this is to use the elements from your theory…

Is there already a standard for this? Before proposing an open standard for qualitative text processing workflows in evaluation, we went looking for one. This page reports what we found, so that anyon…

Outcome harvesting is the most participatory of the methods in this chapter and the one where a machine has least business doing the interesting part. So the question is not how to build a better outc…

Work in progress. A design sketch rather than a finished study. Nothing here has been run: the workflows are written and validated against the engine, and no result is reported because there is none y…

!Rubicon, evaluative methods Rubicon is an experiment in making AI assisted evaluation checkable. You state a question, argue out a workflow with an assistant before any analysis runs, register it, an…

Work in progress. This page is mirrored automatically from in the Causal Map repository and changes as the design does. The section written for whoever changes the code is not published here. <! The c…

Work in progress. A design sketch rather than a finished study. One theory of the five has now been put through the machinery on the real corpus, and what that produced is under A first run , below. T…

The family the other method papers belong to. Contribution analysis, realist evaluation and process tracing all state a theory in advance and then put it to the material. Commissioners ask for that in…

[@powellDoesOurTheory2023] Source: book chapter draft in . Purpose Show how QuIP style causal mapping can compare an official programme ToC (“their theory”) with empirically coded beneficiary narrativ…

Work in progress. This page is mirrored automatically from in the Causal Map repository and changes as the argument does. This should matter to you if: you are any evaluation stakeholder who is coming…