Module Overview
- Use your Theory of Change (Module 2) for the SRHR or social problem you are addressing to guide the development of your program plan (a causal pathway).
- Learn the perspective and language of the causal pathway (similar to a program logic model).
- Apply a rights-based social justice perspective to the problem you are addressing
- Create locally meaningful objectives
- Learn to use specific, clear and precise language to describe your goal, objectives, and activities.
- Create a causal pathway- focus on activities, objectives, and goals.
Module Contents:
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Step 1: Introducing the Causal Pathway
Task 1: Stakeholders Can (and should) Help You Develop your Causal Pathway
Worksheet: Causal pathway: Blank form for you to use (Word and PDF)
Step 2: Defining your Program’s Goal Statement
Task 1: Develop a Goal statement
Worksheet: Your Turn: Writing Clear Goals (Word and PDF)
Worksheet: Goals on your Causal pathway (Word and PDF)
Step 3: Defining your Program’s Inputs
Worksheet: Inputs on your Causal Pathway (Word and PDF)
Step 4: Defining your Program’s Objectives
Task 1: Rights-based Social Justice Objectives: Getting a handle on the complexity of sexual and reproductive health
Worksheet: Constructing a Causal Pathway with Different Levels of Impact (Word and PDF)
Worksheet A: Objectives- Measuring Complex Social Concepts (Word and PDF)
Task 2: Making your Rights-based Objectives SMART and FIT
Task 3: Distinguishing between Immediate and Intermediate Objectives
Worksheet: Almost Done: Write Your Objectives (Word and PDF)
Worksheet: Immediate and Intermediate Objectives on your Causal Pathway (Word and PDF)
Step 5: Reviewing your Program’s Activities
Task 1: Activities that Incorporate a Rights-based Perspective
Task 2: Review the Connection between Program Activities and Immediate and Intermediate Objectives
Worksheet: Activities on your Causal Pathway (Word and PDF)
Step 6: Defining your Program’s Outputs
Worksheet: Outputs on your Causal Pathway (Word and PDF)
Step 7: Defining Risks and Assumptions
Tips
Case Examples
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