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A causal pathways perspective on evaluation focuses on understanding how, why, and under what conditions change happens or has happened. It is used to understand the interconnected chains of causal links that lead to a range of outcomes and impacts. These causal pathways are likely to involve multiple actors, contributing factors, events, and actions, not only the activities associated with the program, project, or policy being evaluated or its stated objectives.| Better Evaluation
An evaluation design sets out how data will be collected and analysed in terms of the methods used and the research design.| Better Evaluation
Decide how to collect or retrieve data to answer the Key Evaluation Questions.| Better Evaluation
A programme theory or theory of change (TOC) explains how an intervention (a project, a programme, a policy, a strategy) is understood to contribute to a chain of results that produce the intended or actual impacts.| Better Evaluation
The Rainbow Framework organises these methods and processes in terms of the tasks that are often undertaken in M&E.| Better Evaluation
Contribution analysis is an evaluation approach that provides a systematic way of understanding an intervention's contribution to observed outcomes or impacts.| Better Evaluation