Intelligence and context
Nov 1, 2014
society & psychology & development & total_speculation
A. Most efforts to construct artificial intelligence are focussed on computation: building a brain with the right program and enough computational
Measuring resilience
Aug 10, 2014
evaluation & development
This article is work in progress! Feel free to add a comment. There should be a pdf at this link. After the terrible earthquake in Haiti in 2010,
Does maintaining supply of water and sanitation in IDP sites after the relief phase encourage people to stay in the sites?
Oct 2, 2013
development & evaluation & reproducibleResearch
Does cutting them
Does it make sense to try to measure progress on the highest levels of a logframe?
Jun 22, 2013
development & evaluation & frameworks
Another interesting discussion on the M&ENews mailing list - does it make sense to try to measure progress on the highest levels of a logframe? A
IFRC Haiti Learning Conference and Evaluation Framework - main documents
Aug 10, 2012
evaluation & development & disaster & IFRC
Here they are: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/ytsmeoxg7c6fnnl/AAAqwFMHiQBKsa7MXBUNSPwLa?dl=0
Using R for classification in small-N studies
Jul 14, 2012
development & evaluation & reproducibleResearch
Rick Davies just wrote an interesting post which combined thoughts on QCA (and multi-valued QCA or mvQCA) and classification trees with thoughts on
Linus on having a vision or not
Apr 21, 2012
development & learning
Right now I am doing a short consultancy helping IFRC with a Learning Conference in Haiti. So we are having some interesting discussions on what a
Outcome Mapping book chapter just out
Mar 6, 2012
development & evaluation & research & outcome-mapping & social research
Powell, Steve, Joakim Molander, and Ivona Čelebičić. ‘Assessment of Outcome Mapping as a Tool for Evaluating and Monitoring Support to Civil Society
Democracy support pays off in the end, at least from the perspective of USAID, even in Egypt
Aug 22, 2011
development & democracy & social research
A pretty comprehensive quantitative study of the effectiveness of democracy support (Finkel et al 2007& 2008) found that, when controlling for a
Paradox of Evaluation Counterfactuals
Jul 15, 2011
development & evaluation
Why does the counterfactual evaluation principle seem to break down in the following case? Suppose eleven organisations each bring enough vaccines
What helped the the Egyptian revolution the most: Twitter, or the government switching it off?
Apr 21, 2011
development & social research
I have been really interested in the “meme” that the Egyptian revolution was “the first social media revolution” and have tolerated infographics
United Nations Volunteers: Citizens’ contributions essential to Tajikistan’s national development goals: UN Report
Apr 18, 2011
development & volunteerism & social research
Понимание Добровольчества в Целях Развития в Юго-Восточной Европе и Содружестве Независимых Государств: Уроки, Направленные на Расширение
Fairer Calls for Proposals in international development. A simple way to stop the bias!
Apr 14, 2011
development & social research
International development aid can shoot itself in the foot and end up making things worse. When Calls for Proposals for work in a particular country
Value and measurability in development
Oct 19, 2010
development & evaluation & research & social research
There is an interesting discussion on the xceval mailing list right now about value and measurability in development. Seems to me there are four
Three days, six people, three pages, one google doc
Sep 21, 2010
collaboration & development & evaluation & tech & social research
Just got back from Geneva where we - the four authors of the meta-evaluations of the ARC Tsunami Recovery Program - spent three days writing a