Strategy
3 October, 2008
My preferred work is:
- That involves ongoing contact with a project or organisation over a period of years
- With organisations that recognise the importance of transparency, in their work and the work of others
- With organisations who see the importance of not only achieving significant local impacts, but of replicating these by publicising the methods they have used and developed. AKA the production of public goods.
- With organisations that are trying to make imaginative use of information technology, especially the world wide web, and the possibilities of large scale participation in the production and dissemination of knowledge via the web (and in all the associated debates and discussions)
- That could involve applying, developing, testing and adapting any of the methods I have developed over the years, listed under “Rick’s Methods” on the Monitoring and Evaluation NEWS website. Including:
- Evolving Storylines, for scenario planning
- Hierarchical Card Sorting, for analysing portfolios of projects and partnerships
- Most Significant Change technique, for identifying and analysing unexpected and unquantifiable changes
- The Basic Necessities Survey, for simple measurement of poverty status in a way that is democratic and rights based.
- Network maps and models of development projects and partnerships, for planning and evaluation purposes
- Social Frameworks, as a user friendly alternative to the Logical Framework
- Weighted Checklists, a participatory means of measuring complex change
- On projects and programs which could be described as complex, because of the number and diversity of stakeholders involved, and probably the lack of a single organising authority.
- On tasks that can be done from my base in Cambridge, reducing the number of tonnes of CO2 I would otherwise be helping to pour into the atmosphere, via international flights
- Where this is not possible, work in countries I have worked in over the years, especially Vietnam, Indonesia, Bangladesh, Ghana, Uganda, Somaliland, and my homeland – Australia.
