A four-step approach
The ImpresS ex ante approach, participatory and adaptive, is a 4-step iterative process.
1. Building the narrative;
2. Mapping outcomes and building an intervention strategy;
3. Consolidating the impact pathway;
4.Translating the impact pathway into different outputs (project document, logical framework, monitoring and evaluation system).
Each steps feeds into the following ones and provides feedbacks to previous steps, building a convincing innovation narrative and plausible impact pathway.
More details of those four steps are provided in the ImpresS ex ante user guide.