Most Significant Change
Workshop Details
Workshop Overview
This workshop introduces participants to the Most Significant Change (MSC) technique, a participatory qualitative monitoring and evaluation method used to capture, select, and learn from stories of change in development programmes. MSC is widely used by NGOs, funders, and social enterprises to understand complex, emergent outcomes that numbers alone cannot capture.
The session is fully experiential and in-person, hosted in Bengaluru. Participants will go through each phase of the MSC cycle, story collection, selection, verification, and feedback, in an active, hands-on format. The workshop is offered free of charge as part of CoLab’s capacity-building initiative for the social sector. By the end of the day, participants will have practised the method end-to-end, not just heard about it.
Workshop Objectives
- Understand what MSC is, when to use it, and how it fits within a broader M&E strategy.
- Collect MSC stories using the standard MSC question across different domains of change.
- Facilitate a story selection process and articulate the reasoning behind selection decisions.
- Navigate the verification and feedback loop, and understand how findings travel across stakeholders.
- Reflect on where MSC fits and where it doesn't within different programme contexts and M&E systems.
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