Putting Theory of Change into Use in Complex Settings ...

We understand a project’s “impact pathway” to be a synonym for a project’s “program theory” ( Douthwaite et al., 2003). A program theory is “a plausible and sensible model of how a program is supposed to work” ( Bickman, 1987, p. 5). Th e model “specifies a chain of causal assumptions linking program resources, activi- ................
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