Creating a Theory of Change is like writing a pop banger [Crosspost > TASO]

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Creating a Theory of Change is like writing a pop banger [Crosspost > TASO]

Pete Crowson 04/10/2025 Pete Crowson 04/10/2025

Creating a Theory of Change is like writing a pop banger [Crosspost > TASO]

Last month I wrote a guest article for TASO about how to write a Theory of Change using their Mapping Outcome and Activities Tools (MOATs).

In it, I described how writing a Theory of Change in some ways is like writing a pop song.

For me, evaluation is part art, part science.