Author Archives: hlanthorn

I had the pleasure of giving two talks through a 3ie seminar series over the past few weeks, in London (chaired by the wonderful Daniel Philips) and in Delhi (chaired by the great Stuti Tripathi and ably discussed by the always-exciting Colin Bangay). I was also able to present at the London School of HygieneContinueContinue reading “With great equipoise comes great responsibility?”

This is a joint post with Urmy Shukla. . In this blog, we advocate the importance of in-depth reporting on implementation processes, evaluation processes, and relevant contextual details of interventions and linked evaluations. This will facilitate research transparency, as well as assessments of both learning and the potential for generalizability beyond the original study settingContinueContinue reading “On reporting processes and details”

When first introduced to the idea of a funnel of attrition (my early attempt at a slightly more nuanced and symmetric — but still generic — version is here), I largely thought of it as a useful heuristic for thinking about sample size calculations, by being forced to think about issues of awareness and take-upContinueContinue reading “Thinking through funnels of attrition”

Two nice posts came out yesterday that relate directly or tangentially to building theories of change. David Evans wrote about, inter alia, what lies behind a null finding, here. Marcus Jenal wrote here about how complexity shouldn’t stop us from building theories of change, up front, so long as we stand ready to adapt (parts*)ContinueContinue reading “For theories of change and study planning, assumptions don’t make an ass of u & me”

Though it feels far less monumental than perhaps it should, I have done the electronic submission of my thesis, which is a big milestone in calling the thing done… or, more accurately, me degree-ed, regardless of how much more work there is to do. . I am sure I have forgotten many people but justContinueContinue reading “Gratitude.”

Thanks to Craig Valters, I was recently pointed towards a new case study In the Asia foundation’s working politically in practice series, focused on a ‘new’ approach called strategy testing. Overall, I am sympathetic to much of the approach, though since I believe it has much in common with prototyping, product design and refinement, reasonableContinueContinue reading “Strategy testing: a start”

Disclaimer: I always get quite frustrated when people seem to be reinventing the wheel, especially when at least the contours of the wheel could be found with a reasonable literature review that was somewhat cross-disciplinary (I am pretty sure this is still a reasonable expectation… perhaps part of the problem is that literature is insufficientlyContinueContinue reading “More from #evalcon: program planning”