Logic Model If you don’t know where you’re going, how are you going to know when you get there?

1. Logic ModelIf you don’t know where you’re going, how are you going to know when you get there? October 12, 2004

2. Assessing Contracts • Logical Framework • Logic Model • Hierarchy of Results

3. Uses of Logic Model • Planning • Implementation • Evaluation

4. What Is a Logic Model? • A picture of a program. • A simple description of the program “theory” or “action” which explains the program. • Logical chain of connections showing what the program is to accomplish. • A series of “if-then” relationships.

5. Simple Logic Model A graphic representation that shows logical relationships between inputs, outputs and outcomes relative to a situation. S I T A T I O N INPUTS OUTPUTS activities and products of these OUTCOMES

6. H E A D A C H E Get Pills Take Pills Headache gone; Return to work Everyday Logic Model

7. NARRATIVE SUMMARY MEANS OF VERIFICATION INDICATORS ASSUMPTIONS GOAL PURPOSE OUTPUTS INPUTS The Logical Framework

8. NARRATIVE SUMMARY MEANS OF VERIFICATION INDICATORS ASSUMPTIONS GOAL PURPOSE COMPONENTS ACTIVITIES Horizontal Logic of the Logframe

9. Definitions • Logic model: a simple flow diagram of how a program is meant to work • Inputs: factors/resources used by programs to conduct activities and achieve objectives • Activities/processes: what a program does with its inputs • Outputs: products of activities • Outcomes: impact of service on participant’s life • Outcome indicators: information used to determine if outcome is achieved

10. PLANNING EVALUATION Focus, Collect data, Analyze and interpret, Report Logic Model OUTPUTS OUTCOMES INPUTS ACTIVITIES Programmatic investments or resources What the program does Products of what it does Short, intermediate, longer term, impact

11. The Logic Model If these benefits to participants are achieved, then certain longer term changes in beneficiaries’ circumstances, organizations, communities, or systems might be expected to occur If youaccomplish your planned activities to the extent you intended, then your participants will benefit in specific ways. If you accomplish your planned activities, then you will hopefully deliver the amount of product and/or service that you intended If you have access to them, then you can use them to accomplish your planned activities Certain resources are needed to operate your program Resources /Inputs Activities Outputs Outcomes Impact Your planned Work Your Intended Results This chart is adopted from “Logic Model Development Guide”, W.K. Kellogg Foundation, December 2001

12. Logic Model – Another View Impacts IF participants have these changes in knowledge, attitudes or skills THEN they will have these changes in being. Outcomes IF a project produces these outputs THEN participants will have these changes in knowledge, attitudes or skills. Outputs IF a project provides these activities THEN it can produce these outputs. Activities IF a project has these inputs THEN it can provide these activities. Inputs

13. Additional References • W.K. Kellogg Foundation Logic Model Development Guide www.wkkf.org/Pubs/Tools/Evaluation/Pub3669.pdf pages 1-14 • The Temporal Logic Model: A Concept Paper Molly den Heyer,International Development and Research Centre of Canada. (July, 2001). http://web.idrc.ca/uploads/user-S/10553603900tlmconceptpaper.pdf