Boundary Partners 

Those individuals, groups, or organizations with whom the program interacts directly and with whom the program can anticipate some opportunities for influence. 

Development Impact 

Significant and lasting changes in the well-being of large numbers of intended beneficiaries. 

Evaluation 

A process by which a strategy, issue, or relationship is studied and assessed in-depth. 

Evaluation Plan 

A short description of the main elements of an evaluation study to be conducted. 

Evaluation Planning Stage 

The third stage of Outcome Mapping. It helps the program identify evaluation priorities and develop an evaluation plan. 

Facilitator 

The person who leads a group through the Outcome Mapping design workshop. 

Inputs 

Resources that are invested into a program in order to encourage results through the relevant activities. 

Intentional Design 

The planning stage of Outcome Mapping, where a program reaches consensus on the macro level changes it would like to help bring about and plans strategies to provide appropriate support. 

Mission 

An ideal description of how the program intends to support the achievement of the vision. It states with whom the program will work and the areas in which it will work, but does not list all the activities in which the program will engage. 

Monitoring 

A process by which data is systematically and regularly collected about a program over time. 

Organizational Practices 

Eight separate practices by which a program remains relevant, innovative, sustainable, and connected to its environment. 

Outcome 

Changes in the behaviour, relationships, activities, and/or actions of a boundary partner that can be logically linked to a program (although they are not necessarily directly caused by it). 

Outcome Challenge 

Description of the ideal changes in the behaviour, relationships, activities, and/or actions of a boundary partner. It is the program’s challenge to help bring about the changes. 

Outcome & Performance Monitoring Stage 

The second stage of Outcome Mapping. It provides a framework for the ongoing monitoring of the program’s actions in support of the outcomes and the boundary partners’ progress towards the achievement of outcomes. It is based largely on systematized self-assessment. 

Outcome Journal 

A data collection tool for monitoring the progress of a boundary partner in achieving progress markers over time. 

Outputs 

Directly achievable and observable, though not necessarily short-term, products of a program. 

Performance Journal 

A data collection tool for monitoring how well the program is carrying out its organizational practices. 

Program 

A group of related projects and activities with a specified set of resources (human, capital, and financial) directed to the achivement of a set of common goals within a specified period of time. 

Progress Markers 

A set of graduated indicators of changed behaviours for a boundary partner that focus on the depth or quality of change. 

Reach 

Describes how actors were touched by their interaction with the activities and/or results of the research program. 

Results 

The external effects (outputs, outcomes, reach, and impact) of a program. 

Strategy Journal 

A data collection tool for monitoring the strategies a program uses to encourage change in the boundary partner. 

Strategy Map 

A matrix that categorizes six strategy types (causal, persuasive, and supportive), which a program employs to influence its boundary partner. Strategies are aimed at either the boundary partner or the environment in which the boundary partner operates. 

Vision 

A description of the large-scale development changes (economic, political, social, or environmental) to which the program hopes to contribute.