The Success Works Guide to Project Logic

 Posted By: Debbie King | December 5th, 2009

Project Logic as a key process in all of our evaluations. Sometimes Project Logic is also useful for strategic planning or in order to build understanding and consensus around a program or initiative. Project Logic unpacks the logic underpinning the program or project that is being evaluated – not the evaluation itself. The Project Logic identifies ‘what they were thinking when they designed this program or initiative’. In evaluation, the reason for developing a Project Logic is to be clear about the activities, outputs and expected outcomes of the program, particularly the short term outcomes. It is not  possible to evaluate a program based on its long term outcomes (as they are too far away and there are too many other factors that will impede their achievement). Nevertheless, the Project Logic depicts the logical flow from short to medium to long term outcomes. Short term outcomes should be possible to investigate as part of the evaluation. Once identified, the outputs and short term outcomes become the foundation for the evaluation questions. This guide describes each of the components of a Project Logic as we use them at Success

Success Works Guide to Project Logic