Outcome mapping provides tools that help a development program to think holistically and strategically about how it intends to achieve results. It encourages a team to introduce monitoring and evaluation at the planning stage and to link them to project implementation and management. It also links implementation to outcomes, so it is well suited to the complex and long-term nature of international development programs, where different outcomes are not easily or usefully separated. Focusing monitoring and evaluation on identified ‘boundary partners’ (see box on page 1) allows the program to measure results within its sphere of influence, to obtain useful feedback that can help improve performance and to take credit for its contribution to outcomes rather than for the outcomes themselves.
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