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The questions we need to answer 🤔

Inputs

Are the inputs being facilitated to implement the solution?

Inputs are all things and resources to be put in place in order to enable activities

Note: Either metrics, anecdotal evidence or other sorts of inputs; examples, funding, leadership, technical tools, etc.

Activities

Are the activities to get your solution in place happening?

List those actions to achieve the objectives of the intervention

Note: Not only intrinsic activities of your project, but also activities that might create the right environment or necessary conditions for results. Examples: #of agencies involved, #meetings, etc.

Outputs

What products came out of the project activities? �What physical evidence do you have of your work?

List here the tangible and intangible products/ services that result from intervention (short-term).

Note: those immediate things achieved - for example, #online services available, #citizens participating in public decisions, etc.

Outcomes

What changed as a result of the project outputs in the short/ medium term?

List what changes in knowledge, attitudes and behaviours of citizens, businesses, and public servants you observe in the short-medium term.

Note: think in metrics towards increase of /reduction of your key targets

Impacts

What changed in high level goals as a result of the intervention (long term)?

Impacts are the actual or intended changes in higher-level strategic goals.

Examples: contributions to development goals, improving the accountability of public institutions.

Solution/Intervention: How?

Description of the project/ initiatives/intervention that will

be implemented

Problem: What and Why?

Description of the problem that is�intended to be solved

Expected Impact: Who and What?

Ultimate goals that want to be achieved with the solution/intervention (i.e. enhanced participation, inclusion, democratization)

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DISCUSSION

  • What worked well about this tool?
  • What’s missing in this tool? Does this work for you?
  • How do we make this canvas better for specific projects?