Rick Davies
Preparedness, not prediction. Exploring alternative futures, using a participatory evolutionary process, at parevo.org
Dr Rick Davies is an experienced evaluator and developer of evaluation tools. He has 30+ years’ experience working with NGOs, bilateral and multilateral institutions on the evaluation of international development aid programmes. This work includes evaluability assessments, the articulation of programme Theories of Change, the development of monitoring and evaluation frameworks, the design, lead and participation in evaluations, the synthesis of lessons learned from multiple evaluations, and quality assurance reviews of evaluations undertaken by other parties.
His PhD research was on organisational learning in NGOs in Bangladesh. He has since developed:
• The Most Significant Change (MSC) technique, a tool for participatory impact monitoring, that is now being used in multiple developed and developing countries.
• The Basic Necessities Survey (BNS), a democratic and rights-based approach to the measurement of poverty, now widely used by international conservation NGOs.
• EvalC3, an Excel app, an integrated set of tools for developing, exploring and evaluating predictive models of expected outcomes.
• ParEvo, A web-assisted process enabling the participatory exploration of alternative futures
• The Ethnographic Explorer, a web app for identifying, exploring and contrasting one or people’s mental models
His published papers can be found online at https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Rick-Davies-3/research
