The most significant change (MSC) t

The most significant change (MSC) technique was invented by Rick Davies in an attempt
to meet some of the challenges associated with monitoring and evaluating a complex
participatory rural development program in Bangladesh, which had diversity in both
implementation and outcomes. The program was run by the Christian Commission for
Development in Bangladesh (CCDB), a Bangladeshi non-government organisation, which
in 1996 had over 500 staff and worked with more than 46,000 people in 785 villages.
Approximately 80 per cent of the direct beneficiaries were women. The large scale and
open-ended nature of the activities posed a major problem for the design of any system
intended to monitor process and outcome