Logic Model / Impact Framework
AIA's results-chain logic model (Inputs → Activities → Outputs → Outcomes → Impact), explicitly defined and adaptable to each engagement's requirements, used to structure planning, monitoring and evaluation across both public and development-sector work.
What it is
A standard results-chain logic model defining Inputs (resources used), Activities (actions taken), Outputs (products/services delivered), Outcomes (short/medium-term effects) and Impact (long-term development effect), with a companion Impact Statement that anchors the model to an institution's vision, mission and legislative mandate.
Problem it solves
Provides a common language to connect what an organisation spends and does to what it actually achieves, avoiding plans that describe activity without demonstrating results.
When to use
- Any engagement requiring a monitoring & evaluation framework
- Public sector and development-sector strategic planning (paired with the Outcomes-Based Approach to Public Sector Strategy)
- Impact reporting for donor-funded or development programmes
Key questions
- What do we use to do what we do? (Inputs)
- What do we do? (Activities)
- What do we produce or deliver? (Outputs)
- What do we wish to achieve? (Outcomes)
- What do we aim to change? (Impact)
Inputs
- Institutional mandate, vision and mission
- Legislative/policy mandate
- Case/programme data for illustrative logic chains
Steps
- 1Define the Impact StatementSet a clear long-term objective aligned to vision, mission and legislative/policy mandate.
- 2Map InputsIdentify financial, human and material resources used.
- 3Map ActivitiesIdentify actions taken to mobilise inputs into outputs.
- 4Map OutputsIdentify the products, capital goods and services delivered.
- 5Map OutcomesIdentify the likely or achieved short/medium-term effects of outputs.
- 6Map ImpactIdentify the long-term, intended or unintended effects of the intervention.
Outputs
- Logic model / impact framework diagram
- Indicator framework for M&E