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.

Thursday, December 25, 2025

Exracting additional knowledge and performance from a configurational model that already has wide coverage

A decision tree algorithm , as available within EvalC3, can generate a classification tree (a set of predictive models) of the kind show...

Tuesday, December 02, 2025

Objectives as data: The potential uses of updatable outcome targets

The context A specialist agency is funding more than 40 different partner organisations, each working in a different part of the country b...

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...

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