It doesn’t seem like a straw man to me when 1) the effectiveness of these interventions is evaluated against their short term impact (as far as I’m aware ACE doesn’t consider this kind of long term impact much at all), and 2) the orgs don’t publish any long term theory of change to help donors or critics decide if they agree with it. This strongly implies that their long term theory of change is far less important than the short term wins, at least at the organization level.
It doesn’t seem like a straw man to me when 1) the effectiveness of these interventions is evaluated against their short term impact (as far as I’m aware ACE doesn’t consider this kind of long term impact much at all), and 2) the orgs don’t publish any long term theory of change to help donors or critics decide if they agree with it. This strongly implies that their long term theory of change is far less important than the short term wins, at least at the organization level.