Outcome Mapping Glossary

Boundary Partners:	Those individuals, groups, or organizations with whom the program  interacts directly and on whom the program can anticipate some opportunities for influence.
	
Development Impact:	Significant and lasting changes in the well-being of large numbers of intended beneficiaries.

Evaluation:		A process by which a strategy, issue, or relationship is studied and assessed in-depth.

Evaluation Plan:		A short description of the main elements of an evaluation study to be conducted.

Evaluation Planning Stage:	The third stage of Outcome Mapping that helps the program  identify evaluation priorities and develop an evaluation plan.			
Facilitator:		The person who leads program staff through the Outcome Mapping design workshop.

Inputs:			Resources which are incorporated into a program in order to encourage results through the relevant activities.

Intentional Design:	The planning stage of Outcome Mapping where a program reaches consensus on the macro level changes it would like to help bring about and plan strategies to provide that support.
	
Mission:			An ideal description of how the program intends to support the achievement of the vision.  It states the areas in which the program  will work but does not list all the activities in which the program will engage. 

Monitoring:		A process by which data is systematically and regularly collected on a program over time. 

Organizational Practices:	8 separate practices by which a program remains relevant, innovative, sustainable, or connected to its environment.

Outcome:		 	Changes in the behaviour, relationships, activities, and/or actions of a boundary partner that can be logically linked, although are not necessarily directly caused by, a program.

Outcome Challenge:	Description of the ideal changes in the behaviour, relationship, activities, and/or actions of a boundary partner.

Outcome & Performance 
Monitoring Stage:	The second stage of Outcome Mapping which provides a framework for the on-going monitoring of the program’s actions in support of the outcomes and the boundary partners’ progress towards the achievement of outcomes.  It is based largely on systematized self-assessment.  

Outcome Journal:	A data collection tool for monitoring the progress of a boundary partner in achieving progress markers over time.

Outputs:			Directly observable, though not necessarily short-term, products of the program.

Performance Journal:	A data collection tool for monitoring how well the program is carrying out its organizational practices.

Progress Markers:	A set of graduated indicators of changed behaviours for a boundary partner that focus on the depth or quality of change.

Reach:			Describes how actors were touched by their interaction with the activities and/or results of the research program. 

Results:			The external effects (outputs, outcomes, reach, and impact) of a program.

Strategy Journal:	A data collection tool for monitoring the strategies a program uses to encourage change in the boundary partner.

Strategy Map:		A matrix that categorizes 6 strategy types (causal, persuasive, and supportive) that a program employs to influence the boundary partner.  Strategies are aimed at either the boundary partner or the environment in which the boundary partner operates.  

Vision:			A description of the large-scale development changes (economic, political, social, or environmental) that the program hopes to encourage.</head></html>