Papers and presentations
3 August, 2009
The Use of Social Network Analysis Tools in the Evaluation of Social Change Communications By Dr Rick Davies, April 2009. 23 pages. [This paper on Social Network Analysis was produced for the Communication for Social Change Consortium, as a contribution to their paper for UNAIDS on reviewing approaches to monitoring and evaluation and advocating an expanded monitoring and evaluation framework for social change communication. All rights to this paper are with the Communication for Social Change Consortium (www.cfsc.org).]
Social Network Analysis as an Evaluation Tool: Experiences with International Development Aid Programmes. 3 page summary paper, for the UK Social Network Conference 13-14 July 2007 Queen Mary College University of London, London, UK.
The 2006 Basic Necessities Survey (BNS) in Can Loc District, Ha Tinh Province, Vietnam A report by the Pro Poor Centre and Rick Davies. A practical application of the BNS method.
“Scale, Complexity and the Representation of Theories of Change Part II“. Evaluation, Vol 11(2):133-149, (2005). Sage Publications, London. Request a copy (pdf file is 974KB) See abstract
The ‘Most Significant Change’ (MSC) Technique: A Guide to Its Use” by Rick Davies and Jess Dart (2005). 104 pages. Hard copies are also available, for UK£ 9.95 (plus postage) on eBay
(unpublished) “Moving from Logical to Network Frameworks: A Modular Matrix Approach to representing and evaluating complex programs“, Rick Davies, July (2005)File is 1.5 MB in size.
“Scale, Complexity and the Representation of Theories of Change” Evaluation, Vol 10(1):101-121. (2004) Sage Publications, London. Request a copy (pdf file is 1,203KB) See abstract
Network Perspectives on the Evaluation of Development Interventions. Paper for the EDAIS Conference November 24-25,( 2003 ) New Directions in Impact Assessment for Development: Methods and Practice
Dart, J., & Davies, R. (2003). A dialogical, story-based evaluation tool: The most significant change technique. American Journal of Evaluation, 24(2), 137–155. See Evaluation Exchange reference to it here .
Improved Representations Of Change Processes: Improved Theories Of Change” Paper presented at the Seville (2002): 5th Biennial Conference of the European Evaluation Society.
Monitoring and Evaluating NGO Achievements Published in The Companion to Development Studies. Edited by Vandana Desai and Robert B. Potter. Arnold. London. (2002)
“Does Empowerment Start At Home? And If So, How Will We Recognise It?” Paper presented at the 4th International Workshop on the Evaluation of Social Development, Oxford, UK 3-7th April, (2000). Published in “Evaluating Empowerment: Reviewing the Concept and Practice“. Ed. Peter Oakley. INTRAC. Oxford, 2001
Order and Diversity: Representing and Assisting Organisational Learning in Non-Government Aid Organisations. Ph.D Thesis. Centre for Development Studies, University of Wales – Swansea (1998)
An Evolutionary Approach to Organisational Learning: An Experiment by an NGO in Bangladesh (Aka Most Significant Changes approach to monitoring) Published in “Development as Process: Concepts and Methods for Working with Complexity” Edited by David Mosse, John Farrington and Alan Rew, Routledge and ODI. London. Also in Impact Assessment and Project Appraisal. September 1998 Vol. 16, No. 3. Pages 243-250
Donor Information Demands and NGO Institutional Development, Journal of International Development. Vol. 9, No. 6, pages 613-620 (1997).
Placing A Value on Advocacy Work Notes prepared for the July 1997 DSA NGO Study Group meeting on “Impact Assessment and Value”, in Oxford.
Beyond Wealth Ranking: The Democratic Definition and Measurement of Poverty A Briefing Note prepared for the ODI Workshop “Indicators of Poverty: Operational Significance”, held in London on Wednesday, 8 October 1997
Guidance Notes on Increasing the Participation of the Poor in the Assessment of the Impact of Development Interventions. A report produced as part of the review of “Methods and Indicators for Measuring the Impact of Poverty Reduction”, an ODA Funded ActionAid Research Project 1997.
Lesson Learning: How Will We Recognise it When We Bump Into it ? Notes prepared for a Group Session in the JFS / BOND Workshop on Lesson Learning, 2-4 July 1997
Interpretations of Sustainability: Self-sufficiency or Inter-dependence Published in ODA Social Development Newsletter, 1996
Hierarchical Card Sorting: A Tool for Qualitative Research & Tree Maps A Tool for Structuring, Exploring and Summarising Qualitative Information
The Management of Diversity in NGO Development Programmes. Presented at the UK Development Studies Association Conference, Dublin, September 1995
Economic Opportunities for the Very Poor: A Report of Research in Belet Weyne and Mogadishu, with Recommendations for Action. A report produced for UNHCR. 155 pages. 1989
An introduction to Shax: A Somali game (1988)
Mogadishu Nutrition Survey 1988
The Village, the Market, and the Street: A Study of Disadvantaged Areas and Groups in Mogadishu, Somalia 1987 References available on request by email
