Contribution analysis
Coming of age
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12568024 |
|---|---|
| Authors | John Mayne (Independent advisor, Canada, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2012 |
| Volume | 18 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 270-280 |
| Publication date | 2012-07-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Evaluation (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1356-3890 • E-ISSN: 1461-7153 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/1356389012451663 |
| OpenAlex | W2164504586 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 112 |
| References cited | 16 |
In this introductory article, a brief history and introduction to contribution analysis is provided to lay the stage for the articles that follow. At the heart of contribution analysis is the aim to be able to make credible causal claims about the contribution an intervention is making to observed results. The key role that theories of change play is noted, and what a useful theory of change ought to contain is discussed. The article then makes a link between the philosophical discussions on causality and contribution analysis through a discussion of contributory causes. It is argued that such causes, which on their own are neither necessary nor sufficient, represent the kind of contribution role that many interventions play: where there are a number of other influencing events and conditions at work in addition to the intervention of interest. Contribution analysis is an approach to confirming that an intervention is a contributory cause
Causal analysis · Causality (physics · Economics · Epistemology · Intervention (counseling · Positive economics · Psychological intervention · Risk analysis (engineering · Sociology · Educational Assessment and Improvement · Evaluation and Performance Assessment · Medicine · Philosophy · Psychology · Public Policy and Administration Research
Rethinking technological change in smallholder agriculture
Can reflexivity be learned? An experience with tobacco control practitioners in Canada
Une « écologie de l’évaluation » pour la Grande Transition ? Fondements de l’évaluation axée sur la causalité formelle
Evaluating decentralized social policy performance
Integrating evaluation into performance audit
Building impactful and inclusive TVET ecosystems
Loneliness and Social Isolation among Older Women
Evaluations of training programs to improve capacity in K
Building epidemiological capacity to strengthen health systems
Learning from changes concurrent with implementing a complex and dynamic intervention to improve urban maternal and perinatal health in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, 2011-2019
From thinking to ticking
Conceptualizing the systemic evaluation of dashboards in quality enhancement processes in higher education
A theory of change approach to analysing tourism social entrepreneurship research
Assumptions in theories of change
An influence among influences
Learning from experiences of evaluators implementing theory-driven evaluations in diverse settings
Contribution analysis to analyze the effects of the health impact assessment at the local level
Exploring the connections between programmatic assessment and program evaluation within competency-based medical education programs
La valutazione della ricerca e suoi effetti sul lavoro scientifico
Peacebuilding Legacy
Learning to Make a Difference
Assessing Contributions Collaboratively
Understanding Behaviour Change in Theory-Based Evaluation of Market Systems Development Programmes
The Role of Participatory Translation in Improving Communication and Engagement at the Local Level in NGO Projects
Communication for Health
Integrating theory-based evaluation and process tracing in the evaluation of civil society gender budget initiatives
The transformational power of evaluation
Using Contribution Analysis to evaluate small & medium enterprise support policy
A graphical method for causal program attribution in theory-based evaluation
Using contribution analysis to evaluate large-scale, transformation change processes
An examination of evaluation users’ preferences for program- and actor-oriented theories of change
Applying contribution analysis
Evaluating a complex research capacity-building intervention
Applications of contribution analysis to outcome planning and impact evaluation
Process Tracing and Bayesian Updating for impact evaluation
Narrative Assessment
A practical example of Contribution Analysis to a public health intervention
Standing back and looking forward
Diagnostic evaluation with simulated probabilities
Predictors of alignment between aid donors’ and recipients’ interests in evaluating the effectiveness of the Shelter.Ukraine initiative
Methodological bricolage, data pattern detection and realist explanation
A triangulation approach to impact evaluation
The unused potential of process tracing as evaluation approach
Program, complexity, and system when evaluating sustainable development
Working with interviews in Process Tracing evaluation methods
The craft of evaluative practice
Theorizing how interventions work in evaluation
Making rigorous causal claims in a real-life context
Using theories of change in the CGIAR Research Program on Agriculture for Nutrition and Health
Implications of the Changing Conversation About Causality for Evaluators
Outcome Trajectory Evaluation (OTE)
Evaluating Social Innovations
Confucian Evaluation
Advocacy Outcomes Are Not Self-Evident
Theory-Practice Connections in Collaborative Approaches to Evaluation
The Counterfactual Definition of a Program Effect
Streamlining Complex Intervention Evaluation Through Participatory Systems Mapping and Contribution Analysis
A Protocol to Assess Contextual Factors During Program Impact Evaluation
Conducting Configurational Comparative Research With Qualitative Comparative Analysis
I’m sorry but I can’t take a photo of someone’s capacity being built’
The Development of a Questionnaire to Assess Research and Evaluation Capacity-Building
Using Outcome Trajectory Evaluation to Assess HarvestPlus’ Contribution to the Development of National Biofortification Breeding Programs
Addressing causality
Evidential Pluralism in the Social Sciences
Causality is good for practice
Strengthening advocacy and policy change for infant and young child feeding
Contribution of the A live & T hrive– Unicef advocacy efforts to improve infant and young child feeding policies in Southeast Asia
Translating the International Code of Marketing of Breast‐milk Substitutes into national measures in nine countries
A New Framework for Monitoring and Evaluating Health Impact Assessment
To what extent can the activities of the South Australian Health in All Policies initiative be linked to population health outcomes using a program theory-based evaluation
Breaking Down Barriers to HIV Care for Gay and Bisexual Men and Transgender Women
Causality and Complexity in Evaluating Equity Interventions
John Mayne and Rules of Thumb for Contribution Analysis
Taking Stock of Contribution Analysis
Mapping the Contributions of John Mayne
Contribution Analysis of a Complex System During Disruptions
Remembering John Mayne—A Practical Thinker and a Thinking Practitioner
Enduring Themes in John Mayne’s Work
Causal Claims in Contribution Analysis
The evaluation of social innovation
Staying Close’
When red tape saves time
Principles for knowledge co-production in sustainability research
Beyond Indicators and Success Stories
Knowledge mobilisation and the civic academy
Communicating for social change
How practitioner-led research could have greater impact
Boundaries and Boundary Objects
Linking transdisciplinary research characteristics and quality to effectiveness
Implementing and evaluating knowledge exchange
Recent advances on impact measurement for the social and solidarity economy
Making children’s rights real’
The Student Equity in Higher Education Evaluation Framework (Seheef) and its relevance in the context of the Australian Universities Accord
Future-oriented impact assessment
Goals of evaluation and types of evidence
Are social mechanisms usable and useful in evaluation research
Theory-based evaluation of capacity-building interventions
Theory-based evaluations
The usefulness of game theory as a method for policy evaluation
The contribution of process tracing to theory-based evaluations of complex aid instruments
Evidence-Based Policy
Theory‐based evaluation
How Can Theory-Based Evaluation Make Greater Headway?
Addressing Attribution through Contribution Analysis
A Systematic Review of Theory-Driven Evaluation Practice From 1990 to 2009
Theories of Change and Realistic Evaluation
Theory-Based Evaluation and Types of Complexity
The Modus Narrandi
Confirmatory program evaluation
Confirmatory Program Evaluation
Theory-Based Stakeholder Evaluation
Toward a Unified Theory of Causality
Broadening the range of designs and methods for impact evaluations
Utilization-Focused Evaluation
| Unique citing works | 112 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 8 |
| Citation span | 2012 - 2026 (15) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | Yes |
| Citation types | Neutral: 112 |