6.5 The use of logic models

Logic models and related intervention representations are central in many facets of evaluation projects; they can be used for different purposes. Mayne (2015) lists a wide range of possible uses:

Designing/planning interventions

1) Designing interventions

2) Understanding and agreeing on interventions with stakeholders

3) Identifying and addressing equity, gender, and empowerment issues

4) Ex ante evaluation of proposed interventions

Managing interventions

5) Designing monitoring systems

6) Understanding implementation, managing adaptively, and learning

Assessing interventions

7) Designing evaluation questions, methods, and tools

8) Making causal claims about impact

9) Reporting performance

Scaling

10) Generalizing to the theory, to other locations and for scaling up and out. (Mayne, 2015, p. 120)