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Editorial

The “Rick on the Road” blog is where I write on specific issues M&E issues that are of interest to me

The most recent postings:

2008

• Aid organisations as self-interested businesses?

• Social Frameworks: An improvement on the Logical Framework?

• Assessing achievements in Katine, Uganda

• A network approach to the selection of “Most Significant Change” stories

2007

• Managing expectations about monitoring and evaluation in Katine

• Katine: an experiment in more publicly transparent aid processes

• Checklists as mini theories-of-change

• Evolving storylines: A participatory design process?

• Prediction markets as a source of independent and continuous evaluation for development projects?

2006

• Assumptions, evidence and multiple stakeholders

• Evidence that the (development) world is getting better

• Integrating funding applications and baseline surveys

• The risks of big increases in aid flows to poor countries

• The “attribution problem” problem

2005

• Impact pathways and genealogies

• Networks of Indicators

• Fight institutional Alzheimers

• Using “modular matrices” to describe programme intentions and achievements

• Constructing “an auditable trail of intentions….”

• Identifying the impact of evaluations: Follow the money?

• Learning circles and loops: Time for some more sophisticated representations

2004

• Open Government and Open Aid

• No more paradigm changes please!

• Where have all the evaluations gone?

• Projects versus Project Funding Mechanisms

• Treating organisations as though they were machines

• Is moving the goal posts a good thing?

• Where are the partners?

• Monitoring empowerment: A contradiction in terms?

• Why did the chicken cross the road?

• Thinking about networks of policies

• Question: How do you assess a country’s ownership of a PRSP?

• Hypothesis-led Surveys of Influence - on KAP

• PRSP Monitoring: Target fixation and mission creep