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Results Chain
Plans an initiative as a chain from activities through outputs and outcomes to impact, and uses it to track progress rather than to predict. The guide explicitly ties it back to the iceberg: the further along the chain you move, the more you are working with underlying structures, values and beliefs rather than events.
Practical
- Time
- 40-45 min
- Group
- 1–∞ · individual, small-group
- Settings
- in-person, online
- Materials
- Results chain worksheet in the guide
- Mechanisms
- systems-sensing
- Change scope
- skill · repeatable
Instructions
- Where
- unfpa.org/sites/default/files/pub-pdf/Step_Up_A_Pocket_Guide_… — Step Up! A Pocket Guide to Social Change for Young Leaders, open
- Availability
- Open online — published at the link, free to read
Source link checked 29 Aug 2026 — unchanged since we recorded it on 28 Aug 2026
This directory describes and points home; the instructions stay with the people who made them.
Origin
United Nations Development Programme and the Independent Evaluation Group — Results-based management, adapted in UNFPA's Step Up! pocket guide (2021)
In this directory via Step Up! A Pocket Guide to Social Change for Young Leaders
Related: Iceberg Model (deepens)
The guide's own 'connect the dots' prompt asks participants to relate this to the Iceberg Model from Activity 9 — a cross-reference the source makes itself.
status: checked · added 2026-08-29