Results Chain Template (Kenya Markets Trust) Description: Detailed excel template used in initial design of Results Chains
Source: Kenya Markets Trust Market Assistance Programme Intervention Plan Template document
Measurement Plan Template (Kenya Markets Trust) Description: Detailed excel template used in initial planning of Measurement Plans
Source: Kenya Markets Trust Market Assistance Programme Intervention Plan Template document
Results Chain ‘Traffic Light’ Rating (SAMARTH) Description: Visual aid to support greater usability of results chains.
Example of how used: Teams use results chains as visual aids by highlighting sticky points by color coding components of the results chains.
Source: Adam Smith International’s SAMARTH Nepal Market Development Programme’s ‘Making Sense of ‘Messiness’: Monitoring and measuring
change in market systems: a practitioner's perspective’
Results Chains Examples
Results Chain Sample for Nepal Ginger Disease Management (SAMARTH) Description: Example of results chain from ginger disease management system, showing ‘first wave’ and ‘second wave’ logic.
Source: Adam Smith International’s SAMARTH Nepal Market Development Programme’s ‘Making Sense of ‘Messiness’: Monitoring and measuring change in
market systems: a practitioner's perspective’
Indicators of Value Chain Sustainability (ACDI VOCA) Description: Illustrative indicators that are helpful in suggesting whether a project is on track for achieving sustainable impact.
How it was used: Project does not use any of the indicators in isolation as no one of the indicators provides evidence of sustainability, but positive movement in
several of the areas strengthens the projects’ claims of achieving sustainable impact.
Source: ACDI VOCA
M&E / Reporting
Intervention Report Template (Kenya Markets Trust) Description: An intervention report template summarizing what happened in an intervention, estimate the impact at all levels from the intervention and note lessons
learned.
How it was used: It is drafted after the early impact study, and finalized after the last impact study.
Source: Kenya Markets Trust Market Assistance Programme
Group Members’ Progress Assessment Template (CARE USA) Description: A template to capture information about producer group members’ inventory, production, consumption, and distribution status. Also captures
knowledge and practice of new techniques, women’s empowerment, property ownership, expenditures on inputs, performance of linked market actors, savings group information, and unintended
consequences.
How it was used: Producer groups complete and submit this form periodically or are asked questions verbally by an interview.
Source: CARE USA
Participatory Performance Tracking and Group Scoring Template (CARE
USA) Description: A template to capture information about producer group members' practices followed by a guideline on how to rate a producer groups' maturity based on the
level of practices that they have undertaken. The example is based on a diary market system.
How it was used: Producer groups complete and submit this form periodically or are asked questions verbally by an interview.
Source: CARE USA
The Ultimate Guide to Anecdote Circles (Anecdote) Description: A guide to use Anecdote Circles- mini social information networks where people can make sense of their reality through storytelling and agree on new or
corrective actions
Source: various (e.g. Anecdote)
