Figure 3

The logic model of a research and development program: a simple version. Figure 3 outlines the flow of logic through the operations of a research and development program. It shows a series of 6 text boxes placed next to each other and connected successively by forward arrows that suggest an action chain involving 6 major components of the program. Going from left to right, these components appear as follows: Box A represents the resources and funds that are input to activities shown in Box B, performed under the funded project. Box C represents the output or the immediate results of the program’s projects. Box C then connects to a box that suggests dissemination of results to target stakeholder audiences, or the intended users of research. The dissemination box connects successively to Boxes D and E that represent short-term and mid-term outcomes, respectively, from the disseminated results. These outcomes refer to the changes that take place in the target audiences and in the system that binds them, as described in the elongated box placed above boxes B and C and connected to them. Box E leads to the final text box at the far right which suggests longer term outcomes from the previous flow of effort and represents the program goal in the form of intended impacts.