"Preface: The Structure of this Guide

This publication is MSC aimed to at help organisations, monitor and community evaluate their groups, social students change and programs academics who wish to use MSC to help to monitor and evaluate their social change programs and projects, or to learn more about how it can be used. The technique is applicable in many different sectors, including agriculture, education and health, and especially in development programs. It is also applicable to many different cultural contexts. MSC has been used in a wide variety of countries by a range of organisations. By 2004, MSC had been used both by NGOs and governments in Africa, Asia, Latin America, Europe and Australasia."
(Davis and Dart, 2005 - herein provided)