A core part of STRIDE was conducting Theory of Change (ToC) stakeholder workshops to (1) develop a strategic direction for STRiDE and dementia care, treatment and support across STRiDE countries (2) develop a monitoring and evaluation framework for STRiDE across STRiDE countries, and 3) develop a strategic direction for STRiDE and dementia care, treatment and support within STRiDE countries.
Within STRiDE we developed ToCs in the following way. We have:
(A) conducted a rapid situational analysis to provide an overview of the dementia situation in each country and to identify relevant stakeholders for the workshops;
(B) developed a project-level (cross-country) ToC with all STRiDE project partners (which was also used as training);
(C) developed country-specific ToCs in stakeholder workshops in each country, and
(D) reviewed and refined the cross-country ToC taking the country ToCs into account. The cross-country ToC has provided a framework to develop our monitoring and evaluation framework and the STRiDE project log frame. This is currently being prepared for publication.
In this guide, we outline an approach to co-developing a ToC with stakeholders to provide strategic direction for policy and programmes for dementia based on the experience of STRiDE. It does not aim to be a comprehensive guideline to developing ToCs or conducting ToC workshops, but rather an outline of the approach used in STRiDE. It should be read together with the forthcoming publication by Breuer et al. which describes the process and outcomes of the STRiDE ToC as well as other resources outlined in Section 4 Further Reading.
Breuer E, Comas-Herrera A, Docrat S, Freeman E, Schneider M and the STRiDE team (2019) STRiDE Theory of Change Workshops: Guidance and Resources. STRiDE Research Tool No.1 (version 2), Care Policy and Evaluation Centre, London School of Economics and Political Science, London.
Founder and Director
Shereen Hussein is a Health and Social Care Policy professor at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM), United Kingdom.
Shereen Founded the MENARAH Network in 2019, through an initial grant from the Global Challenge Research Fund, UKRI. She is a medical demographer with expertise in ageing, family dynamics, migration and long-term care systems. Shereen regularly collaborates with the United Nations, the World Health Organisation and the World Bank in policy and research focused on ageing in the Middle East and North Africa Region.
Shereen received her undergraduate degree in statistics and a postgraduate degree in computer science at Cairo University. She completed an MSc in medical demography at the London School of Hygiene and a PhD in quantitative demography and population studies at the London School of Economics and Political Science, United Kingdom.
Assistant Professor, London School of Economics, Co-lead STRiDE-Dementia, United Kingdom
Adelina Comas-Herrera is co-lead of the Strengthening Responses to Dementia in Developing Countries (STRiDE) project, a multi-national research project funded by the Research Councils UK’s Global Challenges Research Fund involving Brazil, India, Indonesia, Jamaica, Kenya, Mexico, and South Africa. The project aims to build capacity to generate research to support the development of policy responses to dementia. She is the curator of LTCcovid.org, a website that has played a key role in generating and sharing evidence on the impacts of COVID-19 on people who use and provide Long-Term Care and measures adopted to mitigate these impacts.
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