Work in Progress:

A manual on the use of the Most Significant Changes Approach to Monitoring. This manual is being developed by Jessica Dart and Rick Davies. It builds on 8 years experience with what has been called a"monitoring without indicators" method, in Australia, Asia, Latin America and Africa. Chapter headings will be: 1. The Most Significant Changes Approach. 2. Implementing the MSC approach, 3. Getting started: raising interest, 4. Defining Domains of Change, 5. Collecting Stories, 6. Selecting Stories, 7. The
pivotal role of feedback, 8. The verification of stories, 9. Secondary analysis and reporting, 10. Troubleshootiing, 11. The value of the MSC approach. 12. The evolution of the MSC approach. And references.

Please Note: The MSC Guide is now avalable at www.mande.co.uk/docs/MSCGuide.htm

For more information on the original application of the MSC approach see Rick Davies' 1996 paper at www.swan.ac.uk/cds/rd/ccdb.htm.

See also the mailing list at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/MostSignificantChanges/.

If you have experience with the MSC approach and would like to contribute content to the next revision of the manual (where it will be given acknowledgement) contact Jessica at jess@clearhorizon.com.au

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