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Logical Planning models: Where to start?
Wouldn’t it be great to have all the important parts of your program in a text-based table or in a one page diagram so you could see how all the parts relate to each other? Could show it to partners? your Board? your funders?
That’s what an outcomes logical planning model provides: a way to show the links between program activities and services, the results they produce, and how the results (outcomes) will be evaluated.
So far, we’ve shown a simplified Logical Planning Model: Needs + Solution -> Outcomes
Many different logical planning models are possible and helpful, and no one representation is universally accepted. They can be represented as a one page graphic or rendered as a text-filled table. Remember that any representation is two-dimensional and static so it cannot show all the non-linear connections and feedback loops.
Dig Deeper
How do you choose or adapt a Logical Planning Model graphic? There are certainly plenty of examples of this useful tool. A Google search for images with “logic model†turned up more than 2900 examples. Choose one or adapt ours to fit the needs of your project.
Retrieved DATE, from University of Wisconsin-Extension Cooperative Extension, Program Development and Evaluation Unit Web site: http://www.uwex.edu/ces/pdande
The second is from a state-wide plan in Oregon. The graphic looks very simple, but it’s part of a statewide initiative to coordinate work done by various state agencies to improve child welfare and deter juvenile delinquency. Lots of hard work went into this simple plan, as explained at http://www.oregon.gov/OCCF/images/SB555.pps (accessed August 2005). One of the principal reasons given for this kind of planning was to get everyone working on the same principles and using the same language without counties losing local control and focus.
Our logical planning model
The Shaping Outcomes curriculum helps you to build the skills to complete a logic model worksheet (you've already filled out the few sections after going through Module B.) To help you visualize the relationships among the parts of the logic model worksheet, we also have a logical model graphic which you can see by going to the logical Planning Model.
Notice that the logical Planning Model graphic may look like a map because of the arrows, but it’s really more like a scale-model of a building—a way to show all the necessary parts. Even though we may still be in the planning stages, we can see how things will fit together and everyone working on the program learns the same names for the parts from the beginning. Notice that EVALUATION occurs throughout the process (as we explain in Module D).
Now let’s review what outcomes are and then we’ll add terms to help us build our logical planning model.
Coach
To realize how dynamic a program is (compared to a logical Planning Model), think of a project you have worked on (at work or for a volunteer organization). Did you need more/less supplies than planned? Did you have to increase/decrease the audience you served? Did observing outcomes make you change your plans for next time? Print out a copy of the graphic logical Planning Model and with a pencil or red pen, put in arrows that show feedback loops (how activities or services or outcomes caused you to change previous planning).
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