Topic: Introduction to Program Logic
Date and time: Friday 7 March 2025, 9.00am to 4:30pm AWST. 
Location: Perth CBD, IPAA WA will advise details. For queries contact This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Presenter: Theodore Nabben
Register online by: Friday 28 February 2025
Fees (GST inclusive): Members $325.00, AES Organisational member staff $460.00, Non-members $535.00, Student member $155.00, Student non-member $250.00* (GST inclusive) *Students must send proof of their full-time student status to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. 

This workshop is offered in partnership with Institute for Public Administration Australia WA (IPAA WA). IPAA WA members please register here.

Workshop Overview

Program logic is a simplified model of expected cause-and-effect relationships between activities, immediate changes, intermediate outcomes and final outcomes. This workshop introduces the program logic concept and lays out a step by step process for creating a logic model. The workshop concludes with an overview of how this logic model can be used for program design and to be the spine of a monitoring, evaluation, reporting and improvement framework.

Workshop Outcomes

By the end of this course attendees should be able to:

• have the confidence and ability to develop a simple program logic model

• understand how program logic can be used for planning and for monitoring and evaluation

Benefits to your organisation

• projects will be outcome focused

• provides the organisation with a framework for evaluating the impact and effectiveness of projects

• KPI and organisational performance monitoring frameworks can be better aligned to projects achievements

Benefits to you

• understand the uses of program logic and the key concepts

• be able to build a simple program logic model for your project

• know how program logic is useful for project planning, monitoring and evaluation

About Theodore Nabben

Theo has been an evaluator in the Western Australian public service for 20 years. His interest in evaluation started in 1998 while working for Department of Agriculture and Food WA, which saw him co-deliver numerous evaluation courses between 2005 – 2010. He first joined AES in 1999 and since 2016 has been an active member of the WA Chapter.

In 2024 he was recognised as a Fellow of the Australian Evaluation Society for his long-term contribution to evaluation in Australia and internationally. Notable achievements also membership of an International Resource Panel project piloting complexity-aware monitoring and evaluation approaches, including MSC, for USAID and leading an evaluation that received the 2021 WA Institute of Public Administration Australia’s Best Practice in Public Service Evaluation Award

Theo’s interest is in novel and participatory M&E approaches and is a passionate and internationally recognised trainer and advocate of Most Significant Change (MSC). Since 2011 he has delivered MSC training via the Institute of Public Administration Australia (IPAA) and the WA Council of Social Services. He has delivered or co-delivered at least 60 training courses related to evaluation.

Between 2010-16 Theo worked as an independent consultant specialising in monitoring and evaluation, including M&E capacity development and agricultural extension. His international experience includes extensive work across diverse sectors (infrastructure, agricultural development, poverty relief, HIV/Aids, community development, health, homelessness). His work spans 21 countries in Africa, Asia, the Pacific and the Middle East. Recent international work includes developing a theory of Change and M&E Plan for a national Social Protection program in Jordan and MSC training and follow up support for a multi-country Health Resilience program for fragile states in Africa and the Middle East.

He now works for the Grower Group Alliance, an NFP, as the Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning Manager and still delivers M&E training in Australia and internationally.