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, March 21, 2021

Mapping the "structure of cooperation": Adding the time dimension and thinking about further analyses

In October 2020 I wrote the first blog of the same name , based on some experiences with analysing the results of a ParEvo exercise. ( Pa...

Thursday, January 28, 2021

Connecting Scenario Planning and Theories of Change

This blog posting was prompted by Tom Aston’s recent comment at the end of an article about theories of change and their difficulties. ...

Tuesday, December 15, 2020

The implications of complex program designs: Six proposals worth exploring?

Last week I was involved in a seminar discussion of a draft CEDIL paper reviewing methods that can be used to evaluate complex intervention...

Friday, December 11, 2020

"If you want to think outside of the box, you first need to find the box" - some practical evaluative thinking about Futures Literacy

Over the last two days, I have participated in a Futures Literacy Lab, run by Riel Miller and organised as part of UNESCO's Futures L...

Monday, December 07, 2020

Has the meaning of impact evaluation been hijacked?

This morning I have been reading, with interest, Giel Ton's 2020 paper: Development policy and impact evaluation: Contribution ana...

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