Theory of Change: Methodological briefs

In this paper, prepared for as a guide for UNICEF, Patricia Rogers provides a brief description of Theory of Change (TOC) and defines its purpose: "It explains how activities are understood to produce a series of results that contribute to achieving the final intended impacts." She notes that the TOC is sometimes also referred to as a logframe that consists of information on inputs, outputs, outcomes, and impacts, with assumptions that reflect beliefs about the factors that will influence outcomes. She notes that there are other representations of program logic that explain different levels of change, different actors, and different causal pathways.