Public Spending Code: The Programme Logic Framework Model

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The Programme

A programme logic model is a road map of your programme, highlighting how it is expected to work, what activities need to come before others, and how desired outcomes are achieved (Kellogg, 1998).  This model is used extensively in the public sector to help evidence value for money throughout the lifecycle of a project/programme.

This Public Spending Code: The Programme Logic Framework Model course is intended as an introduction to navigating the programme logic model, which supports delivery of your capital and current expenditure project. 

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this Public Spending Code: The Programme Logic Framework Model online course, participants will be able to:

1. Identify and use the programme logic model framework; 
2. Apply the programme logic model to business cases supporting the project lifecycle from strategic assessment through to ex-post evaluation.

Course Content

This Public Spending Code: The Programme Logic Framework Model Course is intended as an introduction to navigating the programme logic model, which supports delivery of your capital and current expenditure project. 

A logic model can greatly enhance the evaluation of projects specifically within planned work.  The course, covers in detail the following:

1. Resources/Inputs (e.g. human, financial, organisational, and community resources, etc.)
2. Programme Activities – the processes, tools, events, technology, and actions that are an intentional part of the programme implementation.
3. Outputs - the direct products of programme activities
4. Outcomes - the specific changes observed as a result of the project/programme.
5. Impact - the fundamental intended or unintended change as a result of the project/programme.

Course Leader

This course will be deliverd by Dr. Deirdre Bane, Senior Finance Specialist at the IPA.