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This week you’re going to take your project outline from Assignment 3 and copy and paste it into a logical framework—or logframe. A logical framework approach uses a more sophisticated matrix than your project outline has.
Mr. Magee is CSDi’s Executive Director and the author of A Field Guide to Community Based Adaptation, Routledge, Oxford, England.
This week you’re going to take your project outline from Assignment 3 and copy and paste it into a logical framework—or logframe. A logical framework approach uses a more sophisticated matrix than your project outline has.
If you’re not used to using a logical framework approach, you should realize that the logical framework is used by all donors. It’s a standardized matrix that allows a donor to quickly see how a project is laid out, the specifics of what you’re going to do to meet the project’s goal, and how you’re going to evaluate if you’ve been successful at meeting your project’s goal.
This week, step one will be to simply copy and paste your problem statement and your goal statement into the logframe I’ve provided. In Assignment Three I suggested that you annotate your problem statement and goal statement with red numbers and letters denoting the challenges, underlying causes, and impacts. So now, paste in the positive version of the community challenges from the goal statement into the logframe.
Step 2 will be to paste the program names and the program activities for solving the underlying causes into the logframe. Don’t rewrite anything—just copy and paste so everything remains absolutely parallel. So this first version of the logframe will look very much like the project outline, just arranged slightly differently.
As I mentioned earlier, all donors request that you submit logframes, sometimes sophisticated ones and sometimes simple ones. The logframe that you’re going to work on is smack-dab in the middle. I took a couple of dozen log frames from different grant proposals that I had, spread them out on a long table, and organized them from the simplest ones on the left to the most sophisticated ones on the right. And then I took the logframe from the very middle of the collection—and that is the one you are working with this week.
The reason that I chose that one is because if you were to submit grant proposals to several foundation donors at the same time, you would find that their submission requirements would all be quite different. Each donor will have their own specific formats for logframes, budgets, and schedules.
By picking the logframe in the middle, when you show it to a donor—even though it might not match their format—they will certainly recognize what it is, and I might add—be impressed with the fact that you did it. But with this middle-ground logframe, you will be able to manipulate it to be a more sophisticated logframe that they might require, or simplify it if they want a simpler format.
Your log frame will make it much easier in the next course to develop the budget, schedule, and two-page project summary that donors will want. Once your project is launched, your logframe will also be the perfect project management tool.
Good luck on your logframe. I look forward to seeing it, and I hope to see you in the next course, 242, where we will complete the documents necessary for applying for grant funding. 504
This week you’re going to take your project outline from Assignment 3 and copy and paste it into a logical framework—or logframe. A logical framework approach uses a more sophisticated matrix than your project outline has.
If you’re not used to using a logical framework approach, you should realize that the logical framework is used by all donors. It’s a standardized matrix that allows a donor to quickly see how a project is laid out, the specifics of what you’re going to do to meet the project’s goal, and how you’re going to evaluate if you’ve been successful at meeting your project’s goal.
This week, step one will be to simply copy and paste your problem statement and your goal statement into the logframe I’ve provided. In Assignment Three I suggested that you annotate your problem statement and goal statement with red numbers and letters denoting the challenges, underlying causes, and impacts. So now, paste in the positive version of the community challenges from the goal statement into the logframe.
Step 2 will be to paste the program names and the program activities for solving the underlying causes into the logframe. Don’t rewrite anything—just copy and paste so everything remains absolutely parallel. So this first version of the logframe will look very much like the project outline, just arranged slightly differently.
As I mentioned earlier, all donors request that you submit logframes, sometimes sophisticated ones and sometimes simple ones. The logframe that you’re going to work on is smack-dab in the middle. I took a couple of dozen log frames from different grant proposals that I had, spread them out on a long table, and organized them from the simplest ones on the left to the most sophisticated ones on the right. And then I took the logframe from the very middle of the collection—and that is the one you are working with this week.
The reason that I chose that one is because if you were to submit grant proposals to several foundation donors at the same time, you would find that their submission requirements would all be quite different. Each donor will have their own specific formats for logframes, budgets, and schedules.
By picking the logframe in the middle, when you show it to a donor—even though it might not match their format—they will certainly recognize what it is, and I might add—be impressed with the fact that you did it. But with this middle-ground logframe, you will be able to manipulate it to be a more sophisticated logframe that they might require, or simplify it if they want a simpler format.
Your log frame will make it much easier in the next course to develop the budget, schedule, and two-page project summary that donors will want. Once your project is launched, your logframe will also be the perfect project management tool.
Good luck on your logframe. I look forward to seeing it, and I hope to see you in the next course, 242, where we will complete the documents necessary for applying for grant funding. 504
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