Have you thought much about how to tell if you can attribute to your actions an improvement you’ve been advocating for? Do the most successful people at direct work even bother with this or do they just get on with it and accept that they won’t really be able to tell / optimistically take the credit?
Have you thought much about how to tell if you can attribute to your actions an improvement you’ve been advocating for? Do the most successful people at direct work even bother with this or do they just get on with it and accept that they won’t really be able to tell / optimistically take the credit?
No, this isn’t something we’ve focused on. The best piece I’m aware of in this area though is this: http://csi.gsb.stanford.edu/elusive-craft-evaluating-advocacy
You could also look at “process tracing” as a methodology: http://betterevaluation.org/evaluation-options/processtracing That’s what Oxfam tried using to evaluate their advocacy efforts.