The Logframer help pages are available both online and offline. When you are working in Logframer, you can press the F1 button on your keyboard to open offline help.
The same content is available here on this website for online consultation. Below you can see the table of contents of the help pages.
If you can't find the solution to your question in the help pages, you can also check out our Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) page.
In case you encounter a bug in the software or a similar problem, you can use the contact form to ask for assistance. Please consult the help and FAQ pages first and make sure to describe the problem and the situation in which it occured as accurately as possible.
Logframer 3.0 is a project management application designed by Facilidev for projects based on the logical framework method. Logframer was designed with NGO projects for development and humanitarian assistance in mind, but can also be used for other kinds of projects in other sectors.
The basic idea behind Logframer is to provide aid actors such as NGOs, non-profit organisations, donor agencies and so on with a simple, versatile and free tool that makes designing projects an easier task (and more fun). Logframer allows you to better integrate all information needed for a well-designed project, and helps you to improve the quality of your project proposals.
Logframer is designed to replace the usual tools for designing a logical framework, such as MS Excel and MS Word. It makes sharing easier because all the essential information of your project is gathered in one single file (logframe, planning, budget and much more). It also takes into account the fact that internet connections in some part of the world make it difficult to use cloud-based solutions. Logframer documents are light-weight, so no more pushing a whole series of Office documents over a connection that fails every couple of minutes.
Logframer offers many options but you are never obliged to use them all. This way, Logframer can help small grass-roots organisations develop simple projects, but it can also assist bigger organisations with the development of large and more complex projects and programmes. And once you're finished designing your project, you can create the necessary tools to manage it at the press of a button.
Logframer can be used to design and manage any project that uses a logical framework and even projects that don't. Logframer offers the necessary project management tools and options for Logical Framework Analysis, Project Cycle Management and Results Based Management.
FaciliDev is all about facilitating the development of civil society organisations. Our belief is that bringing together people into strong, durable organisations that offer quality support to their members or beneficiaries is the best way to achieve change in society in terms of respect for human rights, fighting poverty, ending conflict, achieving sustainable development and so on.
To help people develop their organisation, FaciliDev offers assistance throughout the organisational development process in the form of punctual advice or support over a longer period of time, being with the organisation during all phases of their OD/quality process. To this end, FaciliDev offers (free) information about the topics of organisational/institutional development and project management; practical tools and methods such as the Logframer project design and management software; trainings and workshops on these and related topics – either as one-off events or in the framework of a longer facilitation process.
To help advance the knowledge on the aforementioned topics, FaciliDev actively engages in the discussion via social media and the development of tools and approaches based on the principles of the open source/copy-left movement.
If you are looking for training or support on the use of Logframer or the topics of logical framework approaches, project management or organisational development, you can contact us here or here.
For more information on Facilidev and the services we offer, visit our website at http://www.facilidev.eu/
Logframer was designed using the Microsoft .NET framework for Windows. You need the .NET framework 4.5 or higher to run Logframer. Most Windows computers have this framework (pre)installed already. If your system doesn't have the .NET framework, it will be downloaded and installed automatically during Logframer’s installation procedure.
To install Logframer:
Logframer is compatible with
Logframer is not available for the Apple Macintosh, Linux or Android platforms
Logframer is a free Windows application that enables you to easily design the logical framework of your project. It is not available for the Apple Macintosh, Linux or Android platforms. Logframer is distributed under a GNU General Public License.
When we say that Logframer is available for free, we mean that:
You can also download the source code to Logframer from our website.
With Logframer 3.0 you can:
The Logframer user interface has toolbars, windows and panes, as well as a number of dialogues that will pop-up to do certain tasks.
To make finding your way in all these different elements, Logframer uses different view modes: Basic; Advanced; IATI activity and IATI organisation.
The toolbars can be found on top. There are six different toolbars, some of which will always be available while others will only appear in certain circumstances.
The main working area is split into four different windows:
Additionally, you can show or hide panes:
In the File toolbar you can find the Mode section. You can select between four view modes:
No information is lost if you switch between view modes. So you can include detailed information in Advanced mode, but hide it by switching to Basic mode if you want to introduce the project to someone for instance.
In the File toolbar, click on the Basic button in the Mode section.
Use the Basic view mode:
This view mode:
In the File toolbar, click on the Advanced button in the Mode section.
Use the Advanced view mode:
This view mode:
In the File toolbar, click on the IATI activity button in the Mode section.
Use the 'IATI activity' view mode:
This view mode:
In the File toolbar, click on the IATI organisation button in the Mode section.
Use the 'IATI organisation' view mode:
This view mode:
There are six different toolbars:
Depending on where you click (text box, list view, logframe, planning, budget) one of these toolbars will be selected, while others may be hidden for view. The text toolbar for instance is only visible when you work in a text field. The Collaboration toolbar is only visible when you click on a (partner) organisation or on a contact.
This toolbar is always available and allows you to:
When you type or edit text you can:
The Text toolbar is only visible when you're working in a text box. There is also a difference between ordinary text boxes for data entry and for instance the cells of the logical framework. In the case of ordinary data entry, you can't change the font of the text or make it bold for instance. You will see that certain options in the text toolbar are not enabled.
The items toolbar is available when you work in the logical framework, the planning, the budget and a number of list views. This toolbar allows you to:
The lay-out toolbar allows you to modify the appearance of the logical framework, the planning or the budget. The options that are available in the toolbar will vary according to the window you work in.
The Logical framework lay-out toolbar allows you to:
The Planning lay-out toolbar allows you to:
The Budget lay-out toolbar allows you to:
The Collaboration toolbar only appears when you click on a project partner or a contact. It allows you to:
The Reports toolbar is always available and allows you to:
There are five main windows. Use the tab headers to switch from one window to the next.
The Project Information window allows you to complete basic information about your project such as the project's title, when it will start and its duration.
In the top part you can include:
You can use the various tab pages below to include additional information:
Note that certain tabs may not be visible in some view modes.
The Logical framework window allows you to design the structure of your project:
Create a clear planning of your project's main activities and processes using a drag-and-drop enabled Gantt chart.
The Budget window allows you to create your project's budget.
You can choose between making a simple (one page) budget or a multi-year budget.
To make things easier, you can choose one of the budget templates and modify it to your needs.
The Expenses window is only visible when you work in IATI organisation view mode. It allows you to register your organisation's overall expenses.
As with the budget you can choose between listing your expenses as a simple (one page) overview or a multi-year overview.
There are three different panes that you can make appear:
In the Lay-out toolbar, click on the Show Details button in the View section to show the Details pane on the bottom of your screen.
The content of the Details pane depends on which item you've selected
Logframe:
Planning
Budget
You can access the Clipboard pane either from the Text Toolbar or from the Items Toolbar. Both have a Clipboard section on the left. Click on the More… icon in the bottom right corner of the section to show the respective clipboard.
When you paste (using the Paste button or by pressing Ctrl+V), the top item from the list will be pasted. Alternatively, you can select an item from the list and then press Paste or Ctrl+V.
It is possible you have to work with many different currencies and you want to calculate prices in the original currency and then get a total in your project's main currency.
The exchange rates pane allows you to set the exchange rate for every currency you use that is different from your project's main currency. Once you've set the exchange rate, the totals will be calculated automatically.
Also, if you have to update this exchange rate you don't have to change each individual budget item. Instead you change the rate in the Exchange pane, and then all the items that use this currency will be updated automatically.
When you start up Logframer for the first time, you may want to start with registering information about your organisation. You can do this by pressing the My organisation button in the File toolbar.
The advantage of doing so is that Logframer will add your organisation to the partner list of any new project that you create. You can also include a link to your logo, which will be shown in the Project Information window. You can include information about your organisation (name and or contact information) as well as the logo into the headers and footers of your reports.
When you've completed (or edited) the information about your organisation, you have to save it to disk by clicking the Save file (or Save as...) button on top. If you save the Logframer organisation document (*.lfro) on a network share, several people can use the same information and keep it accurate.
What information you want to include about your organisation is up to you. You can include:
You can also indicate the location of your office(s) on Bing Maps™
To add your logo to the interface and to various reports, click on the Import logo button in the File toolbar.
Logframer does not actually store the logo but maintains a document link. So you must make sure that the image file stays in the same location. You can use a jpeg (jpg) or png document.
If your organisation is not yet listed as a partner (for instance in a project that was developed by someone else) and you want to add your information, open the My organisation dialogue and in the Items toolbar click on the Add as partner button on the right:
When you create a new project (when you start up Logframer or by pressing the New Project button of the File toolbar), you can use the Project Information window to give the project a title and to determine from when to when it will run.
When you save the project for the first time, Logframer will use the (short) title of the project to suggest a file name. But you are free to change this file name to anything you want.
The project's start and end dates are very important, because you can refer any other date in the project to these two dates. For instance, you can say that an activity starts three weeks after the start of the project. Or plan a key moment two months before the end of the project. Or plan an evaluation one year after the end of the project.
The advantage is that when for some reason you have to postpone the start of the project your whole planning will move with it (on the condition that you've used relative dates of course). This means you won't have to modify every other date manually!
On the right you can see the logo of your organisation. To include this in your Project Information window, you need to upload it using the My organisation button of the File toolbar.
You can use the various tab pages below to include additional information:
On the Project Description tab of the Project Information window you can create a resume of what the project is about.
On the General information tab you can specify the current status of the project, i.e. in which phase of the project's lifetime (Identification; Implementation; Completion; Post-completion). If you're working with donors (see Funding tab), additional phases for proposal writing and approval are included. You can also specify whether a project is suspended or in the worst case cancelled entirely.
Below you can indicate which type of project this is, according to four main categories: International aid projects; Non-profit projects; for Profit projects or Government projects. You can select more than one type if you want. If you indicate that the project is about Humanitarian assistance, you will see that an additional tab page appears next to 'Context'.
On the bottom of the first tab you can add different economic sectors. Just click in the list and then in the Items toolbar click on the Add button. By default Logframer uses the UNDP DAC (Development Assistance Committee) 5-digit codes.
On the Project description tab you can write a descriptive text about what the project is about, for instance a short introduction or if you want a longer narrative description.
Similarly on the Context tab you can describe the context in which the project will take place. By this we mean the social, economic, cultural, political... environment in which the project will take place. Generally, this text provides the reader with an understanding in why the project is necessary and how it will contribute to improve the situation in the country or areas where you will work.
Logframer allows you to specify one or more target groups for each main purpose of your project. You can add target groups on two places:
To add a target group, click into the list. This will select the Items toolbar. Then press the Add button. You will get the following dialogue window:
Below, you can specify which fields should be included in the Target Group Identification form. Depending on the type of beneficiary you choose, Logframer will include default fields such as the name of the person or organisation, the address, etc. You can remove items that you don't need and add your own (see Tools: Target Group Identification Form).
On the Map tab page, you can indicate the location of the target group on a map. You can use the different drawing tools to pinpoint individual locations, or to draw a rectangle, circle or polygon (shown here) around the area where the target group is located.
On the Location tab page, you can provide other geographic information about the location of the target group, including information that you may want to include in the IATI activity report. You can for instance add a description of the area or explain what activities you will do in this area with this target group.
The Target Group Identification Form is a report that you can either print or export to MS Word. You can make a specific form for each target group.
You can add one or more intervention zones to your project. You can add three types of intervention zones:
To add an intervention zone, click into the list. This will select the Items toolbar. Then press the Add button. You will get the following pop-up window:
On the Location tab you can give a name to the intervention zone and select whether it is a country, a region or an area. If it is a country or region, you can select it from the drop-drown selector. On the bottom you find the map. If you select a country Logframer will automatically indicate its capital. But you can also pinpoint a location or draw a rectangle, circle or polygon around the area of your choice. If you have multiple intervention zones you will get an overview of the location of the different zones in the map of the project information window.
On the Area information tab you can include more geographical information about the intervention zone or write a short description of the IZ or about the activities that will take place (see also the location of the target groups).
On the last tab you can give an approximate indication of the proportion of the budget that will go to the intervention zone.
You can add people and organisations that are involved in your project to the list of partners and contacts. This way everyone that is involved can easily find each other's contact details.
If you don't select a particular organisation, you will see the list of all your contacts below. If you do select an organisation in the top list, you will see it's details below:
To learn how you can add a new partner to your project, continue reading here.
In the bottom section, you can add:
Using the Collaboration toolbar you can quickly enter in contact with people and organisations that work on the project.
To add a new partner, click into the top list. This will select the Items toolbar. Then press the Add button. You will get the following pop-up window:
Here you can register:
Click OK to add the organisation to your partner list. When you return to the main window you can add the organisation's address(es), telephone numbers, (general) e-mail address, website, contacts, etc.
When you click on the name of an organisation in the top list, you will see its detailed information in the bottom.
On the Description tab you can modify the organisation's name and acronym, it's role in the project and provide a short description of the organisation.
When you click on the name of an organisation in the top list, you will see its detailed information in the bottom.
On the Contacts tab you add people or see their details. To add a contact click in the list and then press on the Add button in the Items toolbar. This will open the following pop-up window:
Here you can add personal contact information, such as:
The toolbar above this information allows you to create a new e-mail message or start up a Skype conversation (see also the Collaboration toolbar).
For IATI activity reports, the contact information of the people in your list will not be included by default. If you do want a person to be included as a contact person in an IATI report, go to the IATI tab and check the 'Include this contact in the IATI report' box.
When you click on the name of an organisation in the top list, you will see its detailed information in the bottom.
On the Contact information tab you can add:
When you click on the name of an organisation in the top list, you will see its detailed information in the bottom.
On the Location tab you can indicate the precise location of the organisation's offices on a map. You can only pinpoint the location, you cannot indicate an area on this map like you would for a target group.
When you click on the name of an organisation in the top list, you will see its detailed information in the bottom.
On the Financial information tab you can register bank details if you want. You can also indicate whether this organisation provides funding (if you haven't done so already when adding the organisation to your project).
If the organisation provides funding, you can add budget lines and calls for proposals (CfP-s). You can use this information later in the Funding tab.
To add a new budget line, click into the list. This will select the Items toolbar. Then press the Add button. You will get the following pop-up window:
To add a call for proposals, choose the second tab and click into the list.
Then press the Add button. You will get the following pop-up window:
When you click on the name of an organisation in the top list, you will see its detailed information in the bottom.
On the IATI tab you can register the organisation's unique IATI identifier code if you know it. For each partner you can choose whether you want to include this organisation in the IATI report.
If you produce an IATI activity file about a project, you can do so as the primary reporter. This means that the file will be published with your own organisation's reference as the author of the document. But you can also report on a project if you are not the lead organisation but a secondary reporter. In this case you should check the 'Secondary reporter' box.
On the Funding tab of the Project Information window you can include information about your funding sources; list important contractual obligations in terms of reporting, auditing, etc. and create an overview of different financial transactions.
Before you can add funding sources, you need to have funders, i.e. organisations that provide funding. If you haven't included donors or other financial providers in your list of partners yet, you have to do this first.
To add a funding source, click into the list. This will select the Items toolbar. Then press the Add button. You will get the following pop-up window:
Once you've added a funding source, you can add contractual deadlines that you have to respect, such as the dates of intermediary and final reporting; audits and evaluations; etc.
For each funding source in the top list, you can add contractual deadlines. These include things like intermediary and final reports, financial reports, evaluations and audits.
To add a contract date, click into the bottom list. This will select the Items toolbar. Then press the Add button. You will get the following pop-up window:
Here you can set the deadline, select the type of contractual obligation and give a short description.
Transactions are transfers of funds from one partner organisation to another. There are two main types of transactions: planned transactions and actual transactions.
To add a transaction, click into the list on the Transactions tab. This will select the Items toolbar. Then press the Add button. You will get the following pop-up window:
To make this a planned transaction, choose 'Planned' from the Transaction type list. You will then be able to determine in which period the transaction will take place. Below, you can indicate the (approximate) amount of the planned transaction and the partner organisations that will make and receive the transaction.
For actual transactions, you can also click in the list and then press the Add button to open the same window. You can either have a completely new transaction, or change the Transaction type from 'Planned' to any of the following options:
In most cases you will use the first three. The idea here is not to list every single small purchase, but to focus on the transfer of important sums. In other words, this is not meant to do (or replace) your accountancy but to enhance transparency. Transactions are therefore very important in the framework of the International Aid Transparency Initiative (IATI).
Transactions are central to the idea of international aid transparency. If you want to create an IATI activity file of your project, it is important that you pay sufficient attention to transactions. Overall, the idea behind IATI is that you can trace the money that donor countries give to recipient countries through transactions. Transactions allow people to see how money flows from one organisation (agency) to the other until it finally arrives in the recipient countries and is spent in the form of investments, delivery of goods and services, provision of credits, etc.
If you want to support the IATI initiative you have to make sure that the transactions that you include in your project file make it clear how the money you received from various sources makes it way to the target groups/beneficiaries it is intended for. IATI asks you to provide certain information for each individual transaction. You must provide this information on the IATI tab of the pop-up dialogue:
This image shows the default settings of Logframer for individual transactions. They are optimised for aid delivery by Non Governmental Organisations:
On top you can enter the code of the Sector for which this transaction is destined, although a typical NGO project will focus on one specific sector, which you can also indicate in the Project Description. You can indicate whether this transaction concerns humanitarian assistance - again something that you can also indicate in the Project Description. The Channel field is more suited for assistance from one government to the other (not set by default).
Before you start detailing your indicators, it's best to set the monitoring deadlines first. When you design your logframe, you can add indicators and verification sources. But before you start to specify the details of the indicators (question type, value range, baseline and targets…) it's best to set these deadlines first.
For each level of the logframe (goals, purposes, outputs and activities) you can specify when and how often the indicators will be measured. For indicators that use values or scores, this means that you can set targets.
You can set:
Depending on the type of project you design and the level in the logframe, you will want the frequency to be higher or lower. Emergency aid projects may need monthly follow-up; development projects typically use yearly or twice yearly targets. You may want to monitor your outputs yearly (or more regularly) but the indicators of the project's purpose and impact only at the end of the project.
These settings do not affect the baseline: for each indicator you can set the baseline.
After setting the frequency of the monitoring, you can choose when it will start and end. You can choose a date relative to the start or end date of the project, or you can specify a fixed date. Based on your preferences, Logframer will generate a list of the monitoring dates in the overview on the right.
The IATI specific information tab is only visible when you set the view mode to IATI activity or IATI organisation view mode. Use this if you want to create an IATI activity file from your project.
If you want to publish the information of your project as an IATI activity file, you have to get a valid IATI identifier. Once you have this code, you must enter it in the Project identifier field:
The hierarchy level is used for complex programmes to indicate at what level this current project is situated. For instance, you may have a regional programme for West-Africa (hierarchy level 1) with sub-programmes for Senegal and Guinea (hierarchy level 2). How you structure your programme (hierarchy) is up to you.
Next you can list the programmes to which this particular project is linked. To do so, click in the top list and press the Add button in the Items toolbar.
In this dialogue window, you can provide the title of the related programme, its specific IATI indicator code and the type of relationship it has (parent project, child project, sibling project, co-funded project or third party project).
In the bottom list, IATI asks you to indicate to which DAC (Development Assistance Committee of the OECD) policies your project makes a contribution. Click in the bottom list and press the Add button in the Items toolbar to create a new item.
The DAC policies your project can contribute to are:
For each topic you select, you can indicate how significant it is for your project:
On the International aid streams tab, you need to indicate under what type of aid your project falls (see also Transactions where you can specify this for every financial transaction you make). The default settings of Logframer (shown before) are optimised for aid delivery by Non Governmental Organisations:
Below you can indicate the status of your financial figures: is this the original budget? Is the budget already committed or just indicative? Are procurements dependent on a tied procedure, a partially tied procedure or untied?
Finally you can list any conditions that may apply to the project as a whole. These conditions may be imposed from a certain policy or can be financial or performance related.
Once your IATI activity or organisation file is ready, you have to publish it on your website and register it in the IATI registry. But there may be other documents that are relevant to your project. You can also publish these on your website and indicate their specific location in the Document links table.
To add a document link, click into the list. This will select the Items toolbar. Then press the Add button. You will get the following pop-up window:
Here you can provide the title of the document and its location on your website (or another publicly accessible site). It's also important to indicate the language of the document. This also means you can include multiple versions of the same document in different languages for instance.
When you design a project, the starting point is the Logical Framework window. Once you have identified your project's logic, how the working environment may influence your project (risks, assumptions, dependencies) and how you will keep track of your project, you can start detailing your planning and budget.
The Logical Framework window, the Planning window and the Budget window have a similar set-up: the main window contains the logframe, planning or budget. If you press <Ctrl><D> (or use the Show Details button in the Lay-out toolbar) you will get the Details pane in the bottom part of the window.
If you want to create an IATI organisation file (by setting the view mode to IATI organisation), you will see an additional Expenses window. This works entirely the same as the Budget window.
The main window contains the grid of the logframe, planning or budget. In this grid you can:
In this section you will learn how to work with the logframe, planning and budget and how to modify their appearance. For more control over colours and typefaces of titles etc. see the topic about the Logframer settings.
To design the logical framework of your project, select the Logframe tab.
The Logical Framework window allows you to design the logframe of course, but using the Details pane you can also add additional information. This in turn will allow you to design specific tools:
Main window |
Details pane |
Tools |
Goals |
Project information (1) |
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List of partners (1) |
List of partner organisations for project documentation |
Purposes |
Target groups (1) |
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Outputs |
Key Moments (2) |
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Processes, activities & sub-activities |
Preparation and follow-up periods (2) |
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Repeating activities (2) |
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Indicators and sub-indicators |
17 different types of indicators |
Monitoring tool in Excel |
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Targets and scores |
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Statements and responses |
Questionnaires / indicator lists |
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Value ranges |
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Verification sources |
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Included in Performance Measurement Framework |
Risks, assumptions and dependencies |
Detailed information according to RAID typology |
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Resources |
References to specific budget items and % used for that particular resource |
(1) You can also do this in the Project Information window
(2) You can also do this in the Planning window. In the Details pane of the logframe you can modify dates, durations and so on, but in the Planning window you have drag-and-drop functionality
The logical framework allows you to design the structure of your project, containing the following logframe items:
Logframe items are linked to each other in two ways:
When you move items around, Logframer will make sure the vertical and horizontal logic remains intact. This means for instance that when you drag output 2 before output 1, that in the bottom section the activities of output 2 will also be placed before the activities of output 1.
When you move an indicator that has several verification sources and you only select the indicator itself, the verification sources will remain in place and you will see a place-holder text.
To add an item, simply click in an empty box and start to type. At the bottom of each section in each column you will always find an empty text box. If these empty boxes are not visible, select the Lay-out toolbar and click on the Show empty cells button in the View section.
You can edit the text like you would in any word processor using the Text toolbar. You can change the typeface or size, make text bold, underlined, etc. and align the text to the left, right or centre.
If you want to change the appearance of all text in the logframe, or all the text in the Indicators column for instance, use the text selection options to select multiple cells and then modify the text to your liking.
You can move a single item or a group of items from one section to the other or from one column to the other, or simply change the order that the items are displayed.
To select a single item, click on it with the left mouse button. To select more than one item, press the left mouse button and drag. The red selection rectangle will expand to include other cells, but you can only select cells within a single section.
To move items, press the right mouse button within your selection (red selection rectangle) and drag it to the place where you want to insert the items. A green indicator line will appear and show the current location. When you come close to the top or bottom border of the logframe, it will scroll up or down. Release the right mouse button to insert the items you selected.
Another way to move items is to use the Move Up and Move Down buttons in the Items toolbar. You can also move the item one section up or down (for instance from the activities to the outputs section).
You can cut, copy and paste items in three different ways. First select the items you want to cut or copy (see ‘Moving items around’).
Using the Lay-out toolbar, you can hide columns and sections; hide everything but your project's main purpose(s); switch between viewing the process indicators or the resources; and show or hide the Details pane.
This enables you to make custom versions of the logframe, which you can then print or export to MS Word or MS Excel. It also allows you to hide the columns or sections that you are not working, making it easier to focus.
The Lay-out toolbar has the following ribbon panels and buttons:
You can print the logical framework, export it to MS Word or to MS Excel. When you print or export the logframe, you can customise its appearance:
This way you can easily produce different versions of the logframe for your funding applications, for training purposes, for communication purposes, for project management, etc.
To design the planning of your project, select the Planning tab.
The Planning window allows you to plan the project's key moments, processes and activities. Using the Details pane you can also specify additional information. This in turn will allow you to design specific tools:
Main window |
Details pane |
Tools |
Key moments |
Relation of key moment to other key moments or activities (1) |
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Processes |
Who organises and where (1) |
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Child activities (1) |
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Activities & sub-activities |
Relation of activity to other key moments or activities (1) |
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Duration of activity (1) |
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Who organises and where (1) |
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Preparation and follow-up periods (1) |
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Repeating activities (1) |
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(1) You can also do this in the Logframe window. In the Details pane of the logframe you can modify dates, durations and so on, but in the Planning window you have drag-and-drop functionality.
The planning window allows you to plan the different activities and key moments (milestones) of your project. It contains the following items:
Activities, processes and key moments are grouped per output of your logical framework. Key moments are always ordered by date.
Planning items are linked to each other in two ways:
When you move items around, Logframer will make sure the vertical logic remains intact. This means for instance that when you drag output 2 before output 1, that the key moments and activities of output 2 will also be placed before those of output 1.
For each output, there are two sections in the main planning window. Directly below the output you can enter key moments in the blue section. If this blue section is not visible, go to the Lay-out toolbar and in the Items section click on the Key moments button.
Below the blue key items section in the planning is the activities section (in white). To add an activity, simply start typing in an empty cell. If the white activities section is not visible, go to the Lay-out toolbar and in the Items section click on the Activities button.
You can edit the text of the activities and processes like you would in any word processor using the Text ribbon tab. You can change the typeface or size, make text bold, underlined... and align the text to the left, right or centre.
You can't change the typeface etc. of the key moments.
You can move a key moment to another output. But you can't change the order of the key moments of a certain output because they are ordered according to date.
You can change the order of the activities of an output and drag activities from one output to the other.
To select a single item, click on it with the left mouse button. To select more than one item, press the left mouse button and drag. The red selection rectangle will expand to include other cells, but you can only select cells within a single section.
To move items, press the right mouse button within your selection (red selection rectangle) and drag it to the place where you want to insert the items. A green indicator line will appear and show the current location. When you come close to the top or bottom border of the logframe, it will scroll up or down. Release the right mouse button to insert the items you selected.
Another way to move items is to use the Move Up and Move Down buttons in the Lay-out ribbon tab (only enabled for activities, not for key moments). You can also move the item one section up or down (from one output to the other).
You can cut, copy and paste items in three different ways. First select the items you want to copy paste (see ‘Moving items around’).
You can use the Details pane to specify the date of a key moment or the start date and duration of an activity. However you can also change this by dragging the activity/key moment around in the main window.
Key moments:
Activities:
Using the Lay-out toolbar, you can hide certain columns; hide or show key moments and/or activities; select the level of detail of the Gantt chart; hide or show links between key moments and activities; and show or hide the Details pane.
The Lay-out toolbar has the following ribbon panels and buttons:
To design the planning of your project, select the Budget tab.
If you want to create an IATI organisation file (by setting the view mode to IATI organisation), you will see an additional Expenses window. This works entirely the same as the Budget window.
The Budget window allows you to identify budget headers that group individual budget items (or sub-headers). A budget can be set up as a single-page budget or as a multi-year budget. In the Budget window, the Details pane has a limited role. You can use it if you want to create a budget item that represents a percentage (ratio) of another item (or total).
A budget has:
You don't have to fill out all the cells for a budget item. You can:
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Total cost is |
Cost/unit only |
Cost/unit |
Quantity and a cost per unit |
Quantity x Cost per unit |
Duration and a cost per unit |
Duration x Cost per unit |
Duration, quantity and cost per unit |
Duration x Quantity x Cost per unit |
A special kind of budget item is the Ratio budget item. With a Ratio item, you can specify that one cost equals to a certain percentage (ratio) of another item or budget header. To create a ratio item:
A ratio item is practical if you have for instance administration costs that are a fixed percentage of the total working costs, or if you want to calculate an amount for contingencies as a percentage of other costs.
To select a single budget item, click on it with the left mouse button. To select more than one item, press the left mouse button and drag. The red selection rectangle will expand to include other cells, but you can only select cells within a single section.
To move items, press the right mouse button within your selection (red selection rectangle) and drag it to the place where you want to insert the items. A green indicator line will appear and show the current location. When you come close to the top or bottom border of the logframe, it will scroll up or down. Release the right mouse button to insert the items you selected.
Another way to move items is to use the Move Up and Move Down buttons in the Lay-out ribbon tab.
You can cut, copy and paste items in three different ways. First select the items you want to copy paste (see ‘Moving items around’).
Using the Lay-out toolbar, you can hide certain columns; view the Exchange rates pane; show or hide the Details pane; switch between simple/multi-year budgets and use one of the pre-defined budget templates.
The Lay-out toolbar has the following ribbon panels and buttons:
You can change the language of the user interface, but what if you use the same project documentation in different countries with different languages?
You can translate the content of the logframe, the planning, the budget and text fields such as the title of your project. If text can be translated, you will see that the Translate button in the Text toolbar or the Items toolbar is enabled.
When you press the Translate button, you will see the following pop-up dialogue:
Here you can add as many translations as you want. Select the language in the first column and then the translated text in the second column.
When you return to your main window you will see the English text (if you use the English interface). If your colleague in Mali uses the French interface, he or she will see the French text.
In logframer you can indicate the location of:
For each of these items you can use a dynamic map of the world that allows you to zoom in and use different drawing tools to indicate a location or area:
In this section we will explain how to:
To move about in the map
Click somewhere in the map with your left mouse button and drag in the opposite direction of where you want to go. So if you want to move to the east, drag your mouse to the left (west).
To zoom in and out
You can use the zoom slider in the toolbar:
If you have a scroll wheel on your mouse, you can use that to zoom in and out.
When you create a map, Logframer will remember what part of the map you zoomed into, so the next time you open the project you will see exactly the same map on the same scale.
You can find the different drawing tools on the toolbar above the map.
You can indicate
To add a pin, shape or text, select one of the drawing tools and double-click on the location where you want to start.
For individual locations, the Pinpoint tool is the easiest to use. Double-click on the location and a pin will appear. This pin remains the same size, regardless of whether you zoom in or out.
If you want to draw a rectangle or circle around the area of your choice, double-click on the map and then drag to the required size.
If you want to draw a complex shape (for instance following country or administrative borders) you can use the Polygon tool. Double-click on each corner and gradually return to your starting point.
If you want to change the colour of the shape, you must first select it with the Selector tool (the blue arrow in the toolbar). Click with the Selector tool on your shape and you will see handles appear on the corners to indicate it is selected. Then choose the line colour or fill colour of your choice.
To remove a pin, a shape or a label from the map, use the Selector tool (blue arrow in the toolbar) and click on the item you want to remove.
When the item is selected you will see handles appear on the corners (white squares). Then you can press the Remove button (second button in the toolbar) to delete the item.
Once a shape is drawn on the map you can still modify it. First, use the Selector tool to select the shape (click in the shape).
The Project Logic column is the first column of the logical framework. It contains:
This description of the intervention logic is very much founded on the Logical Framework Approach (or PCM, or RBM). However, Logframer’s focus lies with project design in general and not with any particular approach. So you are completely free to use some sections and leave others empty (which you can hide, see Changing the lay-out of the logframe).
For instance, if you use the Outcome Mapping approach you can focus entirely on long-term and medium-term objectives (Goals and Purposes) and leave the Outputs and Activities sections empty. You can rename the Purposes section to Outcome challenge and the indicators column to Progress markers.
At first, it's wise to just note down some keywords or key ideas before you start to worry about the exact formulation. At this point you can still move things about with Logframer’s drag-and-drop abilities. You can use the text tools to improve the text or use the marker tool to indicate ideas that have to be elaborated further etc.
Using key-ideas at first allows you to focus on the essence and to make sure that everyone involved in the project understands these terms the same way you do. Watch out for complex concepts such as ‘gender’, ‘democratic’, ‘durability’... that may be understood differently in various cultural settings.
For training purposes, this manual will focus on how you can design a project as an individual. However, it is important to ensure that your project is relevant for the target groups; effective (able to achieve the objectives); efficient; has a positive impact and reduces any negative impact and has sustainable results and is both financially and ecologically durable (see OECD DAC criteria for evaluating development assistance: http://www.oecd.org/dac/evaluation/daccriteriaforevaluatingdevelopmentassistance.htm )
The best way to ensure this, is to work in a participatory way both during the design phase of the project as during its execution and follow-up. You can find more information participatory approaches such as LFA, PCM and RBM on the this website.
‘Bottom-up’ or ‘top-down’ doesn't refer to the question whether the boss has designed the project or the employees or beneficiaries/clients (see Participatory design).
Instead it's about the choice of designing the intervention logic by starting with the activities or with the main purpose of your project:
Whatever way you prefer, you can do it in Logframer. When you list the activities first, Logframer will create a place-holder output and purpose
You can identify as many Goals as you want. Goals are not linked to other project logic items, meaning that when you move them about, other project logic items (purposes, outputs…) will not move.
You can identify one or more Purposes. It is often advised to identify only a single purpose, but it is not forbidden and Logframer will allow you to identify more than one.
Each purpose can have several Outputs. If you have more than one purpose, the outputs will be grouped below a title with the purpose.
Each output can have several Activities. If you have more than one output, the activities will be grouped below a title with the output. If you have more than one purpose, the activities will also be grouped below a title with the purpose.
Each activity can have several sub-activities. We call an activity with sub-activities a Process. Each process can have sub-processes with sub-processes, with sub-processes, with…
The Risks and Assumptions column is the fourth column of the logical framework. The assumptions describe the situations, events, conditions or decisions which are necessary for the success of the project, but which are largely or completely beyond the control of the project's management. Risks are events that may have a negative impact on the project.
The fourth column and the first column have an if… then… relation. If the assumptions in column four are met, or if the risks do not occur, then we'll achieve what we've set out to do in column one.
Logframer allows you to use the RAID typology. RAID stands for:
Risks, assumptions, issues and dependencies exist in different parts of the project's time-line:
Use the Details pane to specify whether an item of the fourth column is a risk, an assumption or a dependency. Because issues only occur during the execution phase, you can’t identify an item as an issue in Logframer.
To identify an item as a risk, use the RAID type selector (first field) and select ‘Risk’ from the drop-down list.
Here you can:
The Risk Register is a report that you can either print or export to MS Word or MS Excel. The print version and the MS Word version give you an overview of the risks and what you will do in response; the objectives they may influence and the risk level at the onset of the programme.
You can select if you want to view all risks or the risks of a specific category (operational; financial; objectives; reputation risks)?
If you export the Risk Register to MS Excel, you will get an interactive tool to assess the likelihood and possible impact of each risk over the course of your project. This will allow you to see how each risk evolves over time and what measures you must take to deal with them.
To identify an item as an assumption, use the RAID type selector (first field) and select ‘Assumption’ from the drop-down list.
Here you can:
The Assumptions Table is a report that you can either print or export to MS Word. It provides an overview of the assumptions of each objective.
In print preview, you can select if you want to view all assumptions, or only the assumptions of a certain level (goals, purposes, outputs, activities).
To identify an item as a dependency, use the RAID type selector (first field) and select ‘Dependency’ from the drop-down list.
Here you can:
The Dependencies Table is a report that you can print. It provides an overview of the dependencies of each objective.
In print preview, you can select if you want to view all dependencies, or only the dependencies of a certain level (goals, purposes, outputs, activities).
To design the project's monitoring and evaluation system (M&E system) you use the second and third columns of the logical framework, with the Indicators and Verification Sources respectively.
Once you've listed the indicators that you will need to follow-up each goal, purpose or output (and activity if you want to), you can use the Details pane to choose the type of indicator and other options such as the value unit, the value range, etc. You can also register the baseline and set targets.
With all this information you can create the Monitoring tool in MS Excel. This tool allows you to follow-up the progress of your project over time:
More often than not, organisations use value-based indicators to monitor the progress of their project and assess its effects and broader impact. This is certainly a valid way to work, but that doesn't mean that ‘indicator’ must be synonymous with ‘values’. Logframer offers you many different types of indicators:
This means that Logframer gives you the flexibility to do ‘strict’ logical framework methods with ‘hard’ values. But you can also use different approaches such as Outcome mapping, using open ended questions for your proxy indicators.
Logframer offers you many options to specify units, value ranges, scores, etc., but that doesn't mean you are obliged to use all these options. Select the tools that best fit your way of working – don't let the tools prescribe how you should do things.
To add indicators to a goal, purpose, output or activity, you just start typing in the empty cell to its right in the Indicators column.
Indicators can have sub-indicators. This enables you to split more complex indicators into their basic components. You can add as many levels of sub-indicators as you want.
Adding sub-indicators and parent indicators:
The total value or total score of the indicator is calculated automatically based on the values of its sub-indicators:
For each type of indicator you can register a baseline value. The baseline is the measurement you make before your project (or at least any of the project's activities) starts.
Some types of indicators use targets, while others have none. If you use targets, you can specify different targets according to the calendar of the Monitoring Deadlines.
Some information can be found or registered centrally, for instance impact indicators that take information from government statistics. These can be entered by someone at your office.
In other cases you may have different teams in the field that register information about their beneficiaries or intervention zone. To get the total results at project level you may have to make a total of the numbers of the various teams.
It's also possible that you need to register information for every beneficiary (or a sample of the group of beneficiaries). The total number/score for that indicator at project level is then calculated as the total sum of the beneficiaries.
In the Indicator Details pane, select the Registration tab. Use the Registration drop-down box to select one of these three options:
Select the target group for which the indicator will be used. You can also use an indicator for all target groups
Use the Aggregate drop-down list to choose how you want to aggregate the information from the different teams or beneficiaries:
For value-based indicators, you can choose how you will define your targets:
In the Indicator Details pane, select the Scoring tab and go to the Targeting box (on the right). Select one of the three options.
To set the actual targets, go to the Targets tab.
If you use a simple target value, you can enter it directly in the cells
If you use a value range, a pop-up window will appear (double-click on the cell if it doesn't) where you can set a minimum value and/or a maximum value. To do so, select the sign (<; >; <=; >=) and enter a value. If you don't select a sign, the min/max value won't be used:
For questions with targets, you can choose which (total) value the indicator will produce:
To set the actual scores:
Value-based indicators are probably the most popular type of indicators used for monitoring projects. However, they may not always be the best choice. Logframer offers you no less than 17 different types of indicators to make sure you have the right indicator for the right occasion. They are grouped in five main groups:
Before you start detailing your indicators, the first choice you have to make is on the right type of question to use. On the Scoring tab, select one of the options from the Question type drop-down list:
Indicators without targets |
Ask a question and specify how much space the respondent (or interviewer) gets to answer |
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The respondent gets a number of different options and can indicate which is the best and the worst option |
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Include a picture of the situation before the project. For each report the respondent has to include a follow-up picture |
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Value-based indicators |
Specify baseline and target values; choose the unit (items, kg, liters…) and specify a value range if necessary (min. and maximum values) |
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Same as the above, but expressed as a percentage |
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The respondent has to provide two numbers and then the ratio is calculated (for instance ratio of girls to boys in schools) |
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Allows the respondent to give a series of numbers. You can specify a formula to give you the total number you want. Useful for sums of a series of items, complex ratios etc. |
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Multiple options |
Respondent/interviewer can tick the box next to yes or no |
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Identify different options so the respondent/interviewer can tick one or more of the options |
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Identify different options so the respondent/interviewer can tick (only) one of the options |
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Ordinal questions |
Identify different options, which the respondent has to rank according to his/her preference |
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A typical Likert scale has five options (but can also be less or more), for example: strongly disagree; agree; neutral; disagree; strongly disagree. This indicator has only one statement to score |
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Similar to a Likert type scale, but with a series of pairs: interesting – not interesting; practical – not practical; smurf – not smurf |
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Expressing opinion |
Uses a series of statements on which the respondent can indicate if he/she agrees or disagrees with the statement. Each statement expresses a more or less positive attitude towards the concept that’s being analysed. These statements have been issued a score before based on a preliminar survey. This score is then used to measure the attitude of the respondent. |
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Similar to Thurstone scale in design, but instead of a choice between agree/disagree, the respondent can give a more nuanced answer by indicating how strongly he/she agrees or disagrees. |
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Similar to Thurstone scale, but the statements are ranked, meaning that if you agree with the fourth statement, it is understood that automatically you agree with the three that came before. |
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A likert scale that is useful for working with groups, organisations, etc. because instead of indicating what the answer is of one person, you can register how many people have chosen that particular option (frequency). |
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Other types |
Not only can you show an image of the baseline situation, but you can also include images of how the situation will look like from one moment to the other. |
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Mixed sub-indicators |
If you add sub-indicators of different question types to a main indicator, the question type of the latter will be set to ‘Mixed sub-indicators’. The total score of this main indicator is always a score (never a value or percentage). |
Set the amount of white space that you want to give to the respondent/interviewer on the questionnaire.
On the Scoring tab:
On the Baseline tab:
On the Scoring tab:
On the Targets tab:
With scoring:
Beneficiary level monitoring:
Beneficiary level monitoring with scoring:
On the Scoring tab:
On the Targets tab:
Beneficiary level monitoring:
To calculate a ratio, the respondent has to answer to two questions. For each question, you can specify the number of decimals, unit and value range.
On the Scoring tab:
On the Targets tab:
With scoring:
Beneficiary level monitoring:
Beneficiary level monitoring with scoring:
On the Scoring tab:
On the Targets tab:
With scoring:
Beneficiary level monitoring:
On the Scoring tab:
On the Targets tab:
Beneficiary level monitoring:
With the Multiple Options question type, the respondent (or interviewer) can select one or more options from a list. If you want to ensure that he/she can only select a single option, use the Multiple Choice question type.
On the Scoring tab:
On the Targets tab:
Beneficiary level monitoring:
With the Multiple Choice question type, the respondent (or interviewer) can select only one option from a list. If you want to ensure that he/she can only select a one or more options, use the Multiple Option question type.
On the Scoring tab:
On the Targets tab:
Beneficiary level monitoring:
On the Scoring tab:
On the Targets tab:
The difference between the Likert-type scale and a full-blown Likert scale is that the Likert-type scale only uses a five-point (or seven-point, or whatever you prefer) to answer on a single question. A full-blown Likert scale on the other hand uses a series of statements that explore different dimensions of a subject.
On the Scoring tab:
On the Targets tab:
Beneficiary level monitoring:
A semantic uses pairs of adjectives to measure a person's attitude towards something. For instance: ‘The workshops on sustainable organic fertilizers were:’
To answer, the respondent can use a series of options that allow him/her to express different degrees of agreement with one of the two extremes. If you use an uneven number of options you can use a ‘Neutral’ option in the middle.
On the Scoring tab:
On the Targets tab:
Beneficiary level monitoring:
The method of equal-appearing intervals or the Thurstone scale is used to measure attitudes of people. Logframer allows you to use a Thurstone scale to measure an indicator, but developing such a scale is not so simple.
This kind of scale is used to measure people's attitude towards a fairly clear and unidimensional concept, using a number of statements that vary in how they express a positive or negative opinion about the main concept. We'll briefly explain the steps of developing a Thurstone scale:
You can now use the scale to measure attitudes 'in the field': enter the list of statements and use them to interview people or present them in a document. For each item, they should express whether they agree or disagree. The total score of a person is calculated by making the sum of the values of all the statements they agreed with, divided by the number of items he agreed on (in other words, the average of the statements they agreed with).
On the Scoring tab:
On the Targets tab:
The difference between a full-blown Likert scale and a Likert-type scale is that the Likert-type scale only uses a five-point (or seven-point, or whatever you prefer) to answer on a single question. A full-blown Likert scale on the other hand uses a series of statements that explore different dimensions of a subject.
The Likert scale can also be used to measure attitudes of people. When responding to a Likert questionnaire item, respondents specify their level of agreement or disagreement on a symmetric agree-disagree scale for a series of statements. Thus, the range captures the intensity of their feelings for a given item. As with the Thurstone scale, the development of a Likert scale takes some effort.
A Likert scale uses a number of Likert items, which are statements to which a respondent expresses his agreement or disagreement. Generally, a five-point or seven-point scale is used, for instance:
As you can see, each item is bipolar: it measures either someone's agreement or disagreement to the statement and allows you to give some measure of how much you agree or disagree. There is a variety of possible response scales (5-point; 7-point; 4-point…). All of these odd-numbered scales have a middle value is often labelled ‘Neutral’ or ‘Undecided’. It is also possible to use a forced-choice response scale with an even number of responses and no central neutral choice. In this situation, the respondent is forced to decide whether they lean more towards the agree or disagree end of the scale for each item.
The basic steps of developing a Likert scale are:
You can now use the scale to measure attitudes in the field: enter the list of statements and use them to interview people or present them in a document. For each item, they should express to what degree they agree or disagree.
The final score for the respondent on the scale is the sum of their ratings for all of the items (this is why this is sometimes called a summative scale). On some scales, you will have items that are reversed in meaning from the overall direction of the scale. These are called reversal items. You will need to reverse the response value for each of these items before summing for the total. That is, if the respondent gave a 1, you make it a 5; if they gave a 2 you make it a 4; 3 = 3; 4 = 2; and, 5 = 1.
On the Scoring tab:
On the Targets tab:
The cumulative scale or Guttman scale measures to what degree a person has a positive or negative attitude to something. It makes use of a series of statements that are growing or descending in how positive or negative a person is towards the subject. If for instance on a scale with seven statements the respondent agrees with the fifth statement, it implies that he or she also agrees with the first four statements, but not with statement number six and seven.
To create a Guttman scale, you need to:
You can now use the scale to measure attitudes 'in the field': enter the list of statements and use them to interview people or present them in a document. For each item, they should express whether they agree or disagree. Each scale item has a scale value associated with it (obtained from the scalogram analysis).
To compute a respondent's scale score we simply sum the scale values of every item they agree with.
On the Scoring tab:
On the Targets tab:
If you interview a whole group of people at a time or you work with total numbers of different groups (classes) of something, you may want to work with this version of the Likert scale. It works exactly as the Likert scale, but you enter numbers instead of checking options.
On the Scoring tab:
On the Targets tab:
On the Targets tab:
Logframer offers the following tools to design and manage your monitoring system:
The Monitoring tool is a very powerful and interactive tool. It allows you to monitor your project for its entire duration, using the different types of indicators you've selected. Basically, you'll get a complete monitoring and evaluation system at one click of a button.
The Monitoring tool is a report that you can export to MS Excel. In the Import/export section of the File toolbar, click on the Create Monitoring Tool button.
You can select if you want to view all indicators or the indicators of a specific level (goals; purposes; outputs; activities). You can also select a specific target group, or the indicators for all target groups.
Note that it may take some time to export this report, especially if you have many indicators. When Logframer opens Excel, don't do anything in Excel (clicking in a cell etc.) because this will terminate the exporting process.
One final remark is that the different scales (Thurstone, Likert, Guttman) are only partially included, in the sense that you can only register the total scores. The actual tables with the statements and response scales are not included. The idea here is that you print the list of indicators, fill the forms out in the field and then you enter the results in this table.
Underneath the usual settings of the Print Settings bar, you can set different options to select what information you want to include in the questionnaire.
You can select:
The Performance Measurement Framework is tool used for Results Based Management. It is a table that presents an overview about:
The Performance Measurement Framework is a report that you can either print or export to MS Word or MS Excel.
You can select if you want to view all indicators or the indicators of a specific level (goals; purposes; outputs; activities).
The Verification Sources column is the third column of the logical framework. The verification sources describe where you (or an external evaluator) can find the information necessary to verify your indicators. For each indicator you can specify one or more verification sources. With multiple verification sources you can triangulate data: verify if the data is accurate by comparing different sources.
Click on a verification source in the logframe to get the following Verification Source Detail panel:
Here you can indicate how the data will be collected, and who will be responsible for the collection of this information.
To design the planning overview of your project, select the Planning tab.
The Planning window allows you to plan the project's key moments, processes and activities. Using the Details pane you can also specify additional information. This in turn will allow you to design specific tools:
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Key moments |
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Who organises and where (1) |
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Child activities (1) |
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Activities & sub-activities |
Relation of activity to other key moments or activities (1) |
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Duration of activity (1) |
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Who organises and where (1) |
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Preparation and follow-up periods (1) |
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(1) You can also do this in the Logframe window. In the Details pane of the logframe you can modify dates, durations and so on, but in the Planning window you have drag-and-drop functionality.
The difference between key moments and activities is that key moments don’t have a duration. They are more like deadlines or mile-stones.
Activities have:
Activities can have child activities. In that case the parent activity becomes a process and its start and end dates (duration) depend on the start and end dates of its sub-activities.
There are two ways to set the (start) date of a key moment or activity:
Apart from the project's start and end date, you can link an activity or key moment to any other activity or key moment. Blue arrows show which activities and key moments refer to a certain key moment. Black arrows show which activities or key moments refer to a certain activity. You can show or hide these arrows using the Lay-out toolbar: in the View section click on the Links to key moments or Links to activities button.
To link activities / key moments using the planning window (drag-and-drop):
To unlink activities / key moment using the planning window (drag-and-drop):
To set a relative date using the Details pane:
To set an exact (absolute) start date:
The Activity Detail pane allows you to set the start date and duration of the activity, indicate who will organise it and where; determine how long you will need to prepare or follow-up the activity; and how many times you need to repeat the activity.
There are five tabs available:
Duration tab settings:
The actual start date will and end date of the activity will appear in the top-right corner of the pane, as well as on the bottom of the Duration tab.
Organisation tab settings:
Preparation and follow-up tab settings:
Preparation and follow-up periods can be identified for every activity, but they are totally optional.
Repeat tab settings:
If you have a repeating activity, you can make use of these settings. Repeating an activity is optional, so in most cases you won't have to fill out this information.
Once you've set the repeat settings, the Dates list will give you an overview of how many times and when exactly the activity will take place.
You can use this tab to add, edit or remove child activities, using the Items toolbar (click into the list view first).
Once you've added a child activity, the activity becomes a process. This means that its duration will be determined by the duration of the child activities. As a consequence, the Duration, Preparation & Follow-up and Repeat tabs will not be visible any more.
You can also add, edit or remove child activities using the main planning window.
Here you can change the following information:
You can print the planning or export it to MS Word. The print version gives you the most detailed view. The MS Word version is a basic version with a general overview of the key moments and activities per month in a table for each year of the project.
In print preview you can select for which outputs you want to see the planning, and whether or not you want to see both activities and/or key moments. You can also set the level of detail (days – weeks – months – trimesters – semesters – years).
To design the budget of your project, select the Budget tab.
You have a choice between two types of budget:
Once you've designed your budget, you can go back to the logical framework and determine for each activity what the cost of the resources will be. For every resource you can list which budget items will be used, and which percentage of the price of each budget item.
In the Budget Details pane you can see an overview of the activities and resources that have used the current budget item and what percentage they have used. This also allows you to see if budget items haven't been overused.
In the Lay-out toolbar, verify in the Structure section that the Simple budget button is selected.
A simple budget has only one (tab) page and is not split up in different budget years.
In the Lay-out toolbar, verify in the Structure section that the Multi-year budget button is selected. Logframer will create a tab page for every year of the project. The first page of the budget is the Total budget page.
The structure of a multi-year budget is as follows:
This means that there are common budget headers for the whole of your budget. But within each budget year, you have the flexibility to add any items you want. You can even add additional budget headers specifically for one budget year that you won't (re)use for the other years.
Note that if you remove a budget header on the Total budget page, all the sub-items on the different budget year pages will also disappear.
To make creating a multi-year budget easier, it's best to follow these steps:
By default, the budget of your project uses one main currency, which you can select in the Preferences dialogue or in the Exchange rates pane. But if the unit prices are in local currency, you can use these numbers and then do an automatic conversion.
Before you can use an additional currency, you must add it to the list of currencies and exchange rates. Then in the budget overview, you have to unhide the Local Currency columns.
In the Lay-out toolbar, click on the Exchange rates button to show the Exchange rates pane on the right of your screen.
On top of the pane, you can select the default currency for the project. Logframer uses ISO 4217 currency codes.
Use the table below to add additional local currencies:
You can add as many local currencies as you want.
In the Lay-out toolbar, click on the Local currency button in the Columns section.
The Currency column will become visible to the right of the Cost/unit column. For each unit cost, you can specify the local/default currency to use. Next you'll find the Total in local currency column and finally the Total cost column with the amount in the default currency (using the exchange rate you set in the Exchange rates pane).
If you use a multi-year budget these additional columns will be visible on the tab pages of the different budget years, but not in the Total budget. All amounts in the Total budget are expressed in the default currency.
To make designing your budget easier, Logframer has a number of budget templates:
If you click on one of the buttons of the Structure section of the Lay-out toolbar, Logframer will prepare the budget template for you. Some of these templates are multi-year templates, while others are simple templates.
Disclaimer: Facilidev does not guarantee the correctness/completeness of these templates and their compliance with the legal requirements and/or donor requirements of the organisations and instances mentioned above. These templates are designed as examples to assist you in developing more complex budget formats. Before you use these templates to develop and present your project proposal and financial proposal to any donor, you must verify that it complies to all the (legal) requirements of that donor at the time of your deposit. Be aware that donors may deviate from standard templates in specific cases.
In no case Facilidev or the developer team of Logframer can be held accountable for any failure to obtain donor funding by using these templates or the Logframer software.
You can print the budget or export it to MS Excel.
You can select which budget years you want to print or export. In print preview, you can also hide or show the duration columns and the local currency column. You also have the option to print the exchange rates in a separate table below the budget.
For each activity or process you can identify one or more process indicators and specify one or more necessary resources. In the logframe you can see one type of information, but you can switch to the other at any time.
If you scroll down to the Activities section and you see (process) indicators, select the Lay-out toolbar and in the Structure section on the right click on the Resources & budget button.
For each activity or process, you can specify one or more resources. To do so, click in the empty cell next to the activity (in the Resources column) and describe the resource.
If you merely want to give an indicative cost for this resource, you can click in the cell to the right (in the Budget column) and enter the cost of that resource.
Alternatively, you can work in a more precise way and select items from the budget.
If you want to calculate a more precise total amount for the resource in question, you can use the Resource Detail pane.
Before you can select items from your budget, you (naturally) have to establish your project's budget first.
In the logframe, click on the resource in question. In the Resource Detail pane, you will get the following table:
Select as many budget items as you want. The total amount will be shown in the Budget column of the logframe. If you've entered an indicative figure there, it will be replaced by the calculated total of the budget items that you selected.
This way you can establish a clear link between your activities, objectives and budget. This will allow you to show for each output how much money you intend to spend. You can do this by printing the Resources table.
IATI or the International Aid Transparency Initiative is a global attempt to make aid delivery and the fight against poverty more effective through the sharing of information. IATI tries to provide a good overview of what kind of aid is delivered (or will be delivered) at different places by different actors. These actors can include governments of both the donor and recipient countries, international NGOs, local NGOs, companies, non-profit organisations, faith-based organisations, individual initiatives...
To make aid delivery effective to a country or region effective, it is important to have a common strategy and vision so that different initiatives work complementary to each other and reinforce each other. This is necessary for instance to avoid that everyone starts working on the same spot, hindering each other and pouring too many resources in one location, while people in other locations remain in dire need for assistance.
In order to enable developing countries to coordinate and plan the different efforts that will take place in their territory, it is vital that they know who wants to do what where and when. At the moment this is very difficult, as there are many sources of information and not every organisation informs local authorities about what they want to do - although in some countries there may be very good reasons to avoid government interference.
The second goal of aid transparency is to offer citizens, civil society organisations, journalists, scientists, etc. information about where the funds - provided by government agencies or by private donations - go to. Who is involved in the transferring and spending of this money? Where does it end up? What did it buy? Who received it? What changes did it bring about? Were the projects successful?
To allow for this exchange of information, a common standard was needed for (digital) information exchange. This means that when someone sends you information about a project, this information is structured in a specific way so that both the software at the sending and the receiving end agree about where to find the title of the project, the financial information, the location of the project, the results of the project and so on.
The IATI standard is an internationally agreed standard of information exchange about aid delivery. It is a XML document (similar to HTML which is used to create web pages) and it lists a number of field names and each field contains text or a value. In essence, these XML documents are text documents that can be created with different instruments: an ordinary word processor, special Excel templates (offered by IATI), specialised software such as Aidstream or web services that connect one organisation's database with another (API).
Since version 3.0, Logframer supports the creation, reading and updating of IATI files.
For more information about the IATI initiative, visit their website at http://www.aidtransparency.net/
In this section of the manual we'll treat the following topics:
The central element in the IATI concept is the Registry. This is where you can find all the organisations that publish information in IATI format, as well as the activities that they are doing. The registry does not contain all the information about development and humanitarian aid initiatives. Instead, it is a list of organisations and for each organisation a list of the (XML) files they have produced and where you can find them. The actual IATI documents can be found on the websites of the different government agencies, NGOs, volunteer groups, etc. that have joined the IATI initiative (and that have registered). While anyone can produce and share IATI documents, the registry is what enables people or organisations all over the world to find that information.
However, hopping from one website to the other to open IATI documents can be tedious and the files will only tell you what each individual organisation does. To get an overview of what is done by different donor countries or what happens in a specific country or region (activities of different organisations), you can use the Datastore. The Datastore visits the websites of the registered organisations, reads the information from the IATI documents and brings it together in a database that you can query.
Another instrument to explore IATI data in a more visual way is D-portal. This tool is still in a development phase and tries to explore the different possibilities to learn from the IATI data.
IATI documents are XML text documents that are structured according to the IATI standard. There are two types of documents:
In principle you can set about creating an IATI document using nothing but a word processor (MS Word, Notepad...) and the guidelines of the IATI reference (the Organisation standard or the Activity standard). However, the standard isn't exactly easy reading if you don't know what you're doing (if you're not familiar with XML mark-up language) and in the end you may produce a document that cannot be validated.
There are different tools available to produce IATI documents, which are much easier to use:
You can start producing IATI files right off the bat, but the idea is of course that they can be found easily by anyone looking for information. In order to do that, your organisation has to become a registered publisher and then each time you produce a new file you have to enter it in the IATI registry.
As you can see the whole process is relatively simple. The hard part is actually to prepare your organisation. Before you start publishing data on the world wide web you need to be sure that you have a clear idea of what you want to share, how this may affect your organisation (identify any risks), what this will mean in terms of workload and how you will organise yourselves to bring all the information together. The technical process may be simple, but aid transparency is something fundamental that requires a clear commitment and participation of the whole organisation.
To make a new organisation file, start up Logframer or click on New project in the File toolbar if you have another project opened in Logframer.
Still in the File toolbar, go to the Mode section and click the IATI organisation button. You will see this on your screen:
As you can see, in IATI organisation mode you can't work with the logframe or with the planning. The IATI organisation file focuses mainly on financial information and nothing much else. This means that apart from the Budget window, you also get a new Expenses window.
If you have registered information about your organisation in the My organisation dialogue, Logframer will automatically add this information in the Partner list. Since the purpose of the IATI organisation file is to report on your own organisation, it's best not to add any other partner organisations here.
In terms of IATI specific information there is not much to add. The only thing you can include is document links, to year reports for instance.
For an IATI organisation file, additional fields will appear in the Project Information window next to the start date and end date of the project (or in this case the organisation file).
IATI guidelines stipulate that for the organisation file, you would specify the expenses of the last three years and the budget forecast for the next three years. When you create a new IATI organisation file, Logframer will automatically set the following duration settings:
You are not obliged to follow the 3-year rule, but it is recommended by IATI. If you want to change the default settings you can.
IATI asks you to present your organisation's total expenses over the last three years. You can make do with a total figure, or you can add some detail according to your own liking. The idea here is to be transparent about your main expenses, but it's not necessary to go into much detail or replicate your bookkeeping here.
On the Total Expenses page, you can specify which main expenses you want to calculate. Apart from filling out the Description column you don't have to do anything else. Logframer will calculate the numbers for you.
Next go to the first year and detail the costs. How far you go is entirely up to you and depends on your transparency policy. You can provide lump sums or detail duration, quantities and unit costs.
Once you've completed the first year you move to the next. If the costs are more or less the same you can start by copying the headings and values from the previous year. Go to the Items toolbar and click on the button that says Copy values from the previous year. This will save you some manual labour, all you have to do now is to update values where necessary.
IATI asks you to present your organisation's budget for the next three years. Unlike the expenses, there are a number of different figures that you need to specify:
On the Total Budget page, you have to do nothing. Logframer will generate the necessary budget headings and calculate the numbers for you.
Next go to the first year and detail each budget header. How far you go is entirely up to you and depends on your transparency policy. You can provide lump sums or detail duration, quantities and unit costs.
Contrary to the expenses, where you can make do with giving a global figure if you want to, you have to pay some extra attention to the detail you provide for
IATI requires you to use the correct codes for each partner organisation, country or region that you add to the list. You do this using the Budget's Details pane. If this pane is not visible at the bottom of your screen, press <Ctrl><D> or click on the Show Details button in the Lay-out toolbar.
For a recipient organisation:
For a recipient region:
For a recipient country:
Once you've completed the first year you move to the next. If the costs are more or less the same you can start by copying the headings and values from the previous year. Select the budget headers that you want to update (drag with the mouse to select), go to the Items toolbar and click on the button that says Copy values from the previous year. This will save you some manual labour, all you have to do now is to update values where necessary.
Creating the IATI organisation file (xml file) is very easy. Once you've completed all the information simply go to the File toolbar and in the Import & export section click on the IATI drop-down button.
Select the second option: Create an IATI file (xml)
Give your document a name and click Save.
Creating an IATI activity file requires you to do three things:
To make sure you can see all the IATI-specific fields and lists in Logframer, select the IATI activity view mode in the File toolbar. Most IATI specific settings can be found in IATI tab of the Project information window.
Other IATI-specific information can be found in other locations:
Whatever you do, do not forget to include the IATI registry code of your project in the IATI tab of the Project information window.
Apart from these special attention points, the only thing you have to do is design your project and press the Create IATI file button. Logframer will turn all the information of your project in a IATI activity file. However, do note that IATI activity files contain less information than Logframer files, so not all the information of your project will be included. For instance, IATI activity files do not register verification sources, risks, assumptions or dependences (third and fourth column of your logframe). Likewise IATI doesn't support the number of sub-activities or sub-indicators that Logframer does, so you will only find the top-level indicators and activities in your activity file.
Speaking of indicators, IATI activity files can only handle indicators with values or percentages - see the next topic for more information.
IATI activity files are limited in that can only handle indicators with values or percentages. Logframer transforms other types of indicators (yes/no indicators, multiple-choice, response scales, etc.) to value-based indicators, using the scores as values.
On the other hand IATI requires you to indicate both target values and actual values for each indicator. When you've selected the IATI activity view mode, you will therefore see that there are additional columns on the Targets tab where you can register the actual values:
This option is only available for indicators of question type 'Value' or 'Percentage', because these are the only indicator types that IATI supports. For other types of indicators you can't register an actual value for now.
Once your project is complete you can create the IATI activity file (xml file). Go to the File toolbar and in the Import & export section click on the IATI drop-down button.
Select the second option: Create an IATI file (xml)
Give your document a name and click Save.
You can also create an IATI activity file that contains multiple projects. All you have to do is open the Logframer projects that you want to include in this file. Then you click on the Create an IATI file (xml) button again, but because more than one project is opened, you will get to see the following dialogue:
Choose the second option if you want indeed to create a file containing all the opened projects. Below you can choose in what order the activities will be included in the file: ordered by start date, title (alphabetically), country (idem) or simply in the order in which they have been opened.
After you've created an IATI file (activity file or organisation file), you can check online whether it is in accordance with the IATI standard. To do so, visit the page of the IATI public validator.
First you have to upload your file. Click the Browse... button and select the file on your computer, then click Upload.
The Validator will do two tests. First it will check if your file is a well formed XML document. This is more of a technical test and it checks whether the document can be recognised as a XML document (and not a PDF document for instance).
Secondly, you can start the actual validation by clicking on the Test Validation link (see above). If all goes well then you get to see the following screen:
In Logframer you can open IATI activity documents or organisation documents as well. To do so click the IATI button in the Import & export section of the File toolbar:
Logframer will create a new project for every activity in the IATI activity file (if there's more than one).
For some information Logframer will ask you to provide additional information. For instance, locations in IATI format do not mention the name of the country; so Logframer will ask you for clarification but will also make a suggestion based on other geographic information found in the IATI file.
Logframer not only helps you to reflect and develop a well-constructed project. It can also help you create tables and overview for your project documentation AND develop instruments to help you manage your project.
There is absolutely no obligation to fill out each and every field, column and list in Logframer. The idea is to offer you the tools you need to develop a project that suits you and the needs of your clients or beneficiaries. However, if you need certain tools or reports, you must complete certain information.
In this section of the manual we'll treat the following topics:
You can create the following project management tools in Logframer:
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Follow-up of project over its entire duration: monitoring indicators and compare them to baseline and targets. The monitoring tool is the basis of your (upward & downward) accountability |
Identify indicators in the logframe Select monitoring deadlines (in Project info window) Identify target groups in the Project info window if you want to specify certain indicators for certain target groups Use Indicator Detail pane to specify question type, value ranges, scoring, baseline and targets |
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Create questionnaires for interviewers to use, or to hand out to beneficiaries to complete |
Identify indicators in the logframe Use Indicator Detail pane to specify question type, value ranges, scoring, baseline and targets |
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Follow-up the evolution of (potential) risks over the course of the project: likelihood, potential impact on the project and risk percentage |
Identify risks in the logframe Select risk monitoring deadlines (in Project info window) Use Assumption Detail pane to identify likelihood, impact and response strategy |
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Register the details of (potential) beneficiaries, identifying them by name and location and registering any other information you find important |
Add target groups to the Target groups list on the Project information window |
You can generate the following reports:
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Design phase: develop logframe with (potential) beneficiaries during workshop; exchange & develop the logframe with partners Include logframe in funding applications towards donors Include logframe in Project documentation as reference during implementation Use and adapt logframe during implementation |
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Design phase: exchange & develop the planning with partners Include planning in funding applications Include planning in Project documentation as reference during implementation Use and adapt planning during implementation |
Identify key moments in the Planning window or in the key moments list of each output (logframe) Identify processes and activities in the Planning window or in the logframe Use Activity Detail pane to specify start date, duration, preparation & follow-up periods, practical organisation and repetition |
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Design phase: exchange & develop the budget with partners Include budget in funding applications Include budget in Project documentation as reference during implementation Use and adapt budget during implementation |
Choose between simple or multi-year budget Optionally use one of the budget templates List budget headers and budget items in the budget Specify unit cost, number of items and/or duration for each budget item |
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Design the basis of your monitoring framework by identifying which information you need to follow-up different objectives, what the baseline and targets will be, how you will find the information, how often you will monitor and who is responsible for monitoring that information |
Identify objectives, indicators and verification sources in the logframe Select monitoring deadlines (in Project info window) Use Indicator Detail pane to specify question type, baseline and targets Use Verification Source Detail pane to specify frequency and who is responsible for monitoring Alternatively, you can print an empty PMF and use that template to design the performance measurement system. Then you can use this information to complete in Logframer |
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Include Resources table in funding applications Project documentation: Provides an overview per output and activity which resources you will need and an (indicative) budget |
Identify objectives, activities and resources in the logical framework For each resource: specify an approx. total amount Or Design your budget in the Budget window For each resource: use the Resource Detail pane to add items from your (Total) budget and specify which percentage of the budget item will be used for this resource. |
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Risks table |
Include Risks table in funding applications Project documentation: Provides an overview of the risks you identified, how you will deal with that risk, which objective it may threaten or influence and the baseline assessment of the likelihood and impact of the risk |
Identify risks in the logframe Use Assumption Detail pane to specify likelihood, impact and response strategy |
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Design phase: identify assumptions; determine how they can be validated and follow-up how you will validate them. Include Assumptions table in funding applications Project documentation |
Identify assumptions in the logframe Use Assumption Detail pane to specify likelihood, impact and response strategy |
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Design phase: identify dependencies and how they will influence your project Include Dependencies table in funding applications Project documentation |
Identify dependencies in the logframe Use Assumption Detail pane to identify the type of dependency, to specify deliverables and response strategy if the deliverables are not available |
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Information on partners and contacts |
Design and implementation: keep an overview of the people and organisations involved in the project Use the Collaboration toolbar to contact them by e-mail, skype, telephone or mail Funding applications: provide an overview of your partner organisations |
Complete information about partner organisations and the people that work for them in the Project information window (tab Partners) |
To print a report, go to the Reports toolbar and select a report in the Reports section. Use the up/down buttons to scroll in the list of reports. Click on the drop-down button in the bottom right corner of the Reports section to get the complete list of available reports.
When you click on a report, you will get the print preview window:
On the left side of the print preview window, you can see the print settings bar. On the right side you can see the print preview of the report in question. You can look at other reports by using the tab selectors at the top of the window.
Print settings:
Report specific settings: these can be found below the general print settings. They allow you to print only certain types of items or information.
Width: enter how many pages wide the report can be. It is possible that the report needs more space than you wanted, so Logframer will increase the number of pages.
For each report, you can set page headers and footers. To do so, press the Headers... or Footers... button in the Print Settings Bar.
There are three text areas: on the left, the centre and on the right side of the page. You can use all text options (bold, italics, text colour...)
Insert project title
To insert the title of the project, click on the Project title button in the bottom toolbar
Insert organisation info and logo
If you've used the My organisation dialogue to provide details about your organisation (name, address, logo, etc.), you can use three buttons to insert this information directly in your header:
Insert page numbers and the total number of pages
To insert page numbers and/or the total number of pages, you can use the buttons on the right of the toolbar. Simply click with the text cursor on the place where you want to insert the page number, and then click on the Page number button.
A place-holder text will appear {&Page} that will be replaced by the actual page number in the preview or printed document. You can format this place-holder like you would any other text.
Copy the header/footer to all other reports
If you want the exact same header or footer on all your documents, you can check the Copy this header to all reports option (or Copy this footer to all reports option) on the bottom left of the dialogue. When you press the OK button, all other reports get the same outlook.
To export a report to Microsoft Word, go to the Reports toolbar and click on the drop-down button with the MS Word logo. A list of available reports to export will appear
When you select one of these reports, the Export to Word dialogue will open:
There are two main export options:
If you click on the tab 'Page orientation', you can select the page orientation of the report:
For some reports, other options will be available. In such a case an additional tab will appear.
To export a report to Microsoft Excel, go to the Reports toolbar and click on the drop-down button with the MS Excel logo. A list of available reports to export will appear
All these reports are exported to a new MS Excel document. This means you can’t insert a report into an existing document like you can when you export to MS Word. Depending on which report you choose you may get a dialogue with export options.
When you install Logframer for the first time, you will probably already have a whole collection of existing projects and programmes. But if you want to use Logframer for an existing project, does it mean you have to re-enter all that information?
No, you don't have to re-do all that work. Logframer allows you to import existing logical frameworks and budgets. You can import:
If you have logframes or budgets made in other applications, the easiest way to import them is to save the documents as MS Excel documents, or to copy and paste tables to a MS Excel document. The next step is then to import this workbook into Logframer.
Before you start importing a logical framework made in Microsoft Word, there are some preparations to be made:
To import a logframe from a MS Word document:
Step 1: select the Word document that contains the logframe
Step 2: select the table that contains the logframe
Step 3: indicate which columns contain objectives, indicators, verification sources and assumptions
Step 4: indicate the rows that contain the goals, purposes, outputs and activities
Note that you are not obliged to import all sections. If you leave the start row and final row of a section empty, Logframer will skip that section during the import.
When the process is finished, you will probably need to do some re-ordering. By default, Logframer places all the outputs under the first purpose and all the activities under the first output. Also, no distinction is made between main activities and sub-activities.
Please refer to the articles about moving logframe items and managing different levels of activities and indicators to finalise your logical framework.
Before you start importing a logical framework made in Microsoft Excel, there are some preparations to be made:
To import a logframe from a MS Excel document:
Step 1: select the Excel workbook that contains the logframe
Step 2: select the worksheet that contains the logframe
Step 3: indicate which columns contain objectives, indicators, verification sources and assumptions
Step 4: indicate the rows that contain the goals, purposes, outputs and activities
Note that you are not obliged to import all sections. If you leave the start row and final row of a section empty, Logframer will skip that section during the import.
When the process is finished, you will probably need to do some re-ordering. By default, Logframer places all the outputs under the first purpose and all the activities under the first output. Also, no distinction is made between main activities and sub-activities.
Please refer to the articles about moving logframe items and managing different levels of activities and indicators to finalise your logical framework.
Logframer can import budgets from a single worksheet. This means that you can't import a whole multi-year budget. You can however import the Totals page of your budget and then (after clearing up) click on the Multi-year budget button in the Budget Lay-out toolbar. Then you can add the items of each budget year manually below the common headers.
Before you start importing a budget made in Microsoft Excel, there are some preparations to be made:
To import a budget from a MS Excel document:
Step 1: select the Excel workbook that contains the budget
Step 2: select the worksheet that contains the budget
Step 3: indicate which columns contain the description, duration, number, unit cost and total cost of each item
You are not obliged to fill out any column except the description and total cost columns.
Step 4: indicate the rows that actually contain the budget
When the process is finished, you will probably need to clean up the budget, because no distinction is made between budget items and budget headers. So you need to level down the items that belong to a certain budget header.
Please refer to the articles about moving and managing different levels of budget items to finalise your budget.
You can find the collaboration tools in the Collaboration toolbar. This will appear when you go to the Project information window and select an item in the list of partner organisations or in the list of contacts of a certain partner organisation.
There are four buttons:
To use these buttons, just click on the name of an organisation or person in the Partners list and then on a button.
If there is more than one e-mail address, mail address or website, Logframer will select the ‘Main’ address or site. If no e-mail address, mail address or website, has its type set to ‘Main’, the first item in the list will be selected.
If you want to select a different address or site, double click on the organisation or person to open a dialogue window with detailed information. Select the address or site of your choice and click on the button in the toolbar in the dialogue window (not the Collaboration toolbar of the main window).
Click on the Settings button in the File toolbar to open the Logframer settings dialogue.
On the first tab you can change the titles of your logical framework. There are many flavours of the logical framework and you can select from 11 different schemes.
Below you can change the titles of the indicators, verification sources, resources, budget and assumptions column.
If you want a certain scheme to become the default scheme for all your new logframes, check the Make this the default scheme button.
Click on the Settings button in the File toolbar to open the Logframer settings dialogue.
On the second tab you can change the colours and fonts of the numbers, the section headers and the Details pane. You can also select a default currency here for your budget (you can also change this setting using the Exchange rates pane)
Click on the Settings button in the File toolbar to open the Logframer settings dialogue.
On the third tab you can change default font of the text and the colours and fonts of the numbers, the section headers and the details pane.
When you add indicators, they will be value indicators by default, but you can change the default indicator type here as well.
Finally select a default currency here for any new budgets you make.
The section on the bottom allows you to specify how many files you want in the Recent files list, and if and when you want Logframer to auto-save your document. If you don't want to use auto-save, change this setting to zero.
In the File toolbar, use the Language drop-down button to select one of the available languages for the Logframer interface:
When you've made your selection, Logframer will restart in the language of your choice.