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There is no question that dedicated campaigners and volunteers are keen to achieve intended effects of a project or campaign. As a rule, they want to know what are the effects and indirect effects of their actions—the intentional, unintentional, short-term and long-term. Yet how does one determine these? What model is employed to measure effect or impact, what approach is used? To find answers to these questions is not easy. Particularly since almost all dedicated people are invariably under time constraints.
This article reflects the personal attitude of the author, so it is not an official Greenpeace position. Kuno joined Greenpeace back in 1986 as volunteer, and is working as an employee since 1990, first for Greenpeace Switzerland and since 2016 for Greenpeace International.
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ZEWO Abstract: The Logical Framework approach is a systematic, analytical planning process for the goal-oriented planning of a project and its monitoring and evaluation system. The basic idea (…), based on a well-founded analysis of the situation and the problems, is to condense the planned impact of the project ultimately into a relatively simple, linear impact model. This serves as a basis for the planning of the monitoring and evaluation system by recording the outputs and impacts of the project using quantitative or qualitative indicators.
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Roth, K. (2021). An Analysis on Impact Measurement: How Do We Measure Impact?. In: Wendt, K. (eds) Theories of Change. Sustainable Finance. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-52275-9_10
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