The Storyboard and Impact Mapping exercise has been designed to help you:
- explore how a project’s intended activities will lead to change,
- describe what that change will look like,
- identify the best ways of knowing (indicators) that it is happening.
The exercise should be used as close to the start of the project as possible (ideally in preparation for a grant application) so that subsequent evaluation activity can be planned and incorporated into the project’s delivery.
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To prove whether a project is making a difference, you firstly need to have a hypothesis, or underlying ‘theory of change’ about how the project’s activities (the inputs) produce results (outputs) that help to bring about change (outcomes).
The Storyboard and Impact Mapping exercise can be used with a mixed group of staff, volunteers and potential beneficiaries involved in a project in order to map out the ‘theory of change’. By the end of the exercise you should be able to identify the best ways of knowing that change has taken place, and therefore what sort of questions to ask of participants and beneficiaries.
To download the instructions for the Storyboard and Impact Mapping exercise, click here. |
