We've got our head in realism this week, partly because early-bird registrations for the 2017 International Realist Conference close soon, and partly because we've been shown Chris Lysy's realist cartoon series (commissioned by the Rameses
Gill Westhorp
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Resource
- Realist impact evaluation is an approach to impact evaluation that emphasises the importance of context for programme outcomes.
Approach
- Realist evaluation aims to identify the underlying generative causal mechanisms that explain how outcomes were caused and how context influences these.