a disconnect that has emerged between the way that we think about social change and theories of change and the ways in which we visualize these change processes and our involvement in them through the diagrams we create as part of a theory of change process.

guide by Hivos, whilst on the one hand promoting an approach to ToCs grounded in a recognition that “social change processes are complex and characterized by non-linear feedback loops: our own actions interact with those of others and a myriad of influencing factors”, also concede that “in practice, the ToC visualization often presents a diagram or... See more