Gill Westhorp

We've got our head in realism this week, partly because early-bird registrations for the 2017 International Realist Conference close soon, and partly because we've been shown Chris Lysy's realist cartoon series (commissioned by the Rameses

Realist impact evaluation is an approach to impact evaluation that emphasises the importance of context for programme outcomes.

Realist evaluation aims to identify the underlying generative causal mechanisms that explain how outcomes were caused and how context influences these.