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.

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...

Tuesday, March 03, 2026

Optimising method selection: an introduction to the set covering problem — and a tool to help

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 b...

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...

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