Jessica J. Dart: the importance of transparency

'In the MSC approach, program stakeholders interpret their experiences with the program and select instances of significant change and record each as a story. They are also required to record why this change is significant to them. For example, when a farmer tells a story of significant change, she/he interact with the world and draw meaning from it, and it is in the telling of the story that meaning is constructed. Then when the reviewers read and evaluate the story, they engage with it and construct a further new meaning. When this is done in a group, this construction may be shared. In the MSC approach the criteria that are used to interpret the story are documented, made transparent and attached to the story itself. It is this transparency that makes the whole process even more open to new and more sophisticated constructions of meaning'. (quoted from Dart, undated, page 2)