Archive - Evaluation and Value for Investment

VfI meets TM: Monitoring that actually matters

How to rescue monitoring from managerial boredom

Aug 26 •

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Daniel J. Ticehurst

Communicating value

The headline travels around the world while the real story is pulling its boots on

Aug 18 •

Triangulating observational and administrative data

A pragmatic pathway to causal evidence in social services

Aug 11 •

Gold standards and double standards

Why I support diverse causal inference methods in program evaluation but demand randomised controlled trial evidence for medical interventions

Aug 4 •

July 2025

Evaluative reasoning (audio)

Criteria, standards, and transparency in evaluation

Jul 28 •

13:16

The Stone Tablets of Social Value (audio)

Ten Commandments for Social CBA and SROI

Jul 23 •

11:39

Ten Commandments for Social CBA and SROI

The Stone Tablets of Social Value

Jul 21 •

Integrating value for money within an evaluation

Using an intuitive stepped approach as an integration tool

Jul 15 •

Is evaluation violent? Part 2

Jul 8 •

Is evaluation violent?

Is humanity served if we view it as such?

Jul 1 •

June 2025

Reviewer 2 rebuttal

“Maybe they do things differently in New Zealand…”

Jun 24 •

Realist economic evaluation

Not just “is the intervention worth it?” but how, for whom, when, and why

Jun 17 •

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