The Temporal Logic Model - A Concept Paper

The Logical Framework Analysis (LFA) has become a standard feature of the aid and development industry. Yet its usefulness for “civil society building” is open to serious question. It “cannot capture the fluid motion of a program as it adapts to a chaotic environment and stakeholders who are constantly learning. In the absence of process, management and evaluations are limited to measuring accountability, losing an opportunity for learning from the program.”

“In order to address this issue, IDRC’s Evaluation Unit has researched and developed an alternative logic model that could include program responsiveness to environmental changes and the organizational learning process. The alternative model, entitled the Temporal Logic Model (TLM) achieves this through periodically recording contextual changes, interim assessment and integrating any subsequent modifications.”

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