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.

Tuesday, June 18, 2024

On two types of Theories of Change: Temporal and atemporal, and how they might be bridged

There are two quite different ways of representing theories of change – of the kind that might be useful when planning and monitoring develo...

Wednesday, April 24, 2024

Developing and using a Configurational Theory of Change within an evaluation

Figure 1 Ho-hum, yet another evaluation brand being promoted in an already crowded marketplace.FFS... Yes, I think this reaction is under...

Friday, December 22, 2023

Using the Confusion Matrix as a general-purpose analytic framework

Background This posting has been prompted by work I have done this year for the World Food Programme (WFP) as member of their Evaluation Met...

Saturday, October 28, 2023

Beyond summarisation by AI and/or editors- Readers can now interrogate full transcripts of meeting discussions

Over the last two months, a small group of us have been managing a MSC Monthly Online Gathering. In each meeting we have recorded the discus...

Thursday, August 31, 2023

Evaluating thematic coding and text summarisation work done by artificial intelligence (LLM)

Evaluation is a core part of the workings of artificial intelligence algorithms. It is something that can be built in, in the shape of spec...

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