Rick On the Road

Reflections on the monitoring and evaluation of development aid projects, programmes and policies, and development of organisation's capacity to do the same. This blog also functions as the Editorial section of the MandE NEWS website - see the Links section below on the left.

Sunday, May 31, 2026

Cluster analysis for evaluation purposes, and how a hybrid Human-LLM approach can help

Friend to Groucho Marx: “Life is difficult” Groucho Marx to Friend: “Compared to what?” Comparison is intrinsic to evaluation. Not only b...

Tuesday, April 07, 2026

Rethinking how we share evaluation methods

This year I have been experimenting with a different approach to making evaluation methods more accessible and reusable. Working with Cla...

Saturday, March 28, 2026

When rankings tell different stories: an introduction to the Rank Explorer

Caveat Emptor: I delegated the writing of this blog posting to Claude AI (Sonnet 4.6), based on an extended prior dialogue on the subject ...

Sunday, March 22, 2026

Introducing Rank Order Counterfactuals (ROC)

A counterfactual is a description of what would have happened, if an intervention had not taken place. The use of randomised control groups ...

Saturday, March 07, 2026

Making implicit knowledge explicit, contestable and usable: an introduction to The Ethnographic Explorer

Caveat Emptor: I delegated the writing of this blog posting to Claude AI (Sonnet 4.6), based on an extended prior dialogue on the subjec...

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