The purpose of the Procurement Procedure is to structure CCS's purchasing processes to ensure that the services and goods we acquire are the result of transparent, objective, and cost-effective. This Procedure applies to all CCS employees and you have to be familiar with the Procedure whenever you need to carry out purchasing of goods and services.

A theory of change explains how the activities undertaken by a policy, a programme or an intervention contribute to a chain of action that leads to the intended outcomes. A theory of change is also a diagrammatic representation of a programme blueprint – it makes explicit the inputs, the activities, the outputs and the outcomes, and the links between them. Through this approach, the precise link between activities and the achievement of outcomes are more fully understood. With a detailed understanding of how change take places, the theory of change can potentially provide analytical insights into programme design at the planning stage. It can be useful for studying programme processes or implementation, as well as for identifying programme outputs and outcomes for monitoring and evaluation.

Course Objectives:

At the end of the course, participants are expected to achieve the following objectives:

• Understand the role of theory underlying policies, programmes and/or interventions.
• Understand the key concepts of theory of change and the analytical insights it can potentially provide to programme planning, implementation, monitoring and evaluation.
• Learn how to develop and appraise theories of change through the use of case studies.