Appendices
The relevant factors for individual assessments include the process’ key actors’ familiarity, experience, and connections to decision makers, including the assessment managers, service providers, ILs and MO focal points. Ownership of and buy-in to the MOPAN process by assessment actors, key decision-makers and change leaders also play an important role. Answer to the Effectiveness question The answer to the effectiveness question is mostly concerned with the use of MOPAN products.
Contribution claims Developing contribution claims The development of contribution claims (CC) is specific to CA. CCs are plausible statements about the use of MOPAN products or use related to being a network member. “Plausible” means that there is some possibility of verifying CCs in concrete settings. Each claim is: • supported by theoretical or empirical knowledge. In particular, the theory-building phase, which was closed by the inception report, involved an extensive literature review, a survey of MOPAN members, former ILs and MO focal points and interviews with MOPAN member representatives and the MOPAN Secretariat. In practice, all CCs are supported by one or several examples given by stakeholders. It is not enough to assert that MOPAN could have contributed or will contribute to a change in the future to make a CC. • contextualised. In complex settings, an intervention is almost always one among several drivers that may contribute to a change and there are always different pathways for making a contribution. CCs therefore include indications about when, how, why, and to what extent a contribution might be identified with respect to what other drivers. This includes one or several impact pathways and/or underlying mechanisms (Box 3, Impact Pathways). • initially assessed for the degree of confidence we can have in the contribution and its significance.
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