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Evaluating complex and unfolding interventions in real time

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This article discusses an approach to managing the evaluation of complex interventions. Complex interventions pose significant challenges to the role and conduct of evaluations. In particular, they combine with reflexive learning and change to produce significant uncertainties making it hard to describe in advance what the intervention will do or what the outcomes might be. These uncertainties vary in nature and addressing these uncertainties leads to different evaluation approaches. That such evaluations often take place in ‘real time’ and have a strong formative dimension adds to the challenge. This article proposes a way of approaching this problem by incorporating the concepts of uncertainty and complexity into a Theory of Change-based approach.

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Evaluation

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Thousand Oak : sage publisher., 2012

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English

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13563890

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Vol. 18 no. 1, January 2012,pp. 79-91

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Complexity
Evaluation
uncertainty
Evaluating complex and unfolding interventions
Real-time evaluation

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