Reeler, Doug. (2007).  A Three-fold Theory of Social Change - and Implications for Practice, Planning, Monitoring and Evaluation.

"Most significantly, and ironically, the very Project approaches that donors insist be used for planning, monitoring and evaluating practice and impact, like Logical Framework Analysis and its cousins, have tacitly introduced a misleading and self-defeating theory of social change."

This paper puts forward a different theory of social change that goes beyond implicit conventional theories, providing a different framework for seeing and working with the complexities of change.

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