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60 seconds with…Joseph Thompson
Our ‘60 Seconds with…’ blogs are designed to provide a quick run down of what our staff do here at Itad. Here is what Joseph had to say…
Routes to Resilience: Insights from BRACED final year
After three years of implementation, this paper presents a synthesis of the Building Resilience and Adaptation to Climate Extremes and Disasters...
Ignacio Torrano
Ignacio Torrano is a Senior Consultant specialising in the evaluation of education and health programmes in the international development sector.
Independent monitoring and verification of the Accelerating Sanitation, Water and Hygiene for All (ASWA II) Programme
Accelerating access to drinking water and household sanitation is key to achieving the sustainable development goals and DFID is funding ASWA II,...
The Collaborative Urban Resilience Exchange: lessons on informal settlement data and partnership building
The Collaborative Urban Resilience Exchange took place in Cape Town, from 16–18th July 2018, as part of a collaboration between Slum Dwellers...
The Second Phase of Providing Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning Support to the Global Resilience Partnership
Since 2016, Itad has supported the Global Resilience Partnership (GRP) as a learning partner to help ensure it reaches its goal of helping...
Design for Health: the role of data and evidence
In this blog, Emma Mulhern, describes her initial impressions of Design for Health, a joint venture by both the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation...
Mixing, matching and modifying methods in realist evaluation: should we be purists or pragmatists?
This second blog from the Itad Realist Evaluation Learning Group asks: how far can realist evaluation be modified, watered down, or ‘mixed and...
Endline summary report: Impact Evaluation of the SADA Millennium Villages Project in Northern Ghana
This report presents the endline findings from an impact evaluation of the Millennium Villages Project (MVP) in northern Ghana, as commissioned...
Beyond a burden: what value does verification offer?
Police officers, auditors, teachers marking homework and giving out detentions – just some of the unfavourable analogies we have heard applied...
Adaptive Programming in Fragile, Conflict and Violence-Affected Settings – What works and under what conditions? The Case of Pyoe Pin, Myanmar
This paper examines adaptive approaches in aid programming in a fragile, conflict and violence-affected setting (FCVAS), namely Myanmar. This...
Reflections on Itad’s work to promote the equitable participation of people with disabilities in issues that affect them
The UK government has successfully co-hosted its first ever Global Disability Summit to boost efforts to assist people with disabilities. In this...
Millennium Villages Project Briefing Paper No. 9: How is it being sustained?
This Briefing Paper is the ninth in a series to communicate key points from the independent impact evaluation of the Millennium Villages Project...
Millennium Villages Project Briefing Paper No. 8: What was the evaluation design?
This Briefing Paper is the eighth in a series to communicate key points from the independent impact evaluation of the Millennium Villages Project...
Millennium Villages Project Briefing Paper No.4: Did it displace other development interventions?
This Briefing Paper is the fourth in a series to communicate key points from the independent impact evaluation of the Millennium Villages Project...
Millennium Villages Project Briefing Paper No.3: Was it cost-effective?
This Briefing Paper is the third in a series to communicate key points from the independent impact evaluation of the Millennium Villages Project...
Millennium Villages Project Briefing Paper No.2: Did it overcome the poverty trap?
This Briefing Paper is the second in a series to communicate key points from the independent impact evaluation of the Millennium Villages Project...
The DCED standard for results measurement: four lessons from an audit of Enterprise Partners
In this blog, discover what Monitoring and Results Management (MRM) specialist, Adam Kessler, learnt during his DCED Standard Audit. Here, he...
Itad’s Impact Strategy Audit of Nesta Impact Investments: What value did it offer for Nesta and the impact investing industry, and what next?
Itad conducted an Impact Strategy Audit of Nesta Impact Investments between October 2017 and January 2018 and we believe this is the first...
Project update – summer 2018
This year, Itad’s technical themes have started work across varied and interesting projects. Read on to find out more...
Nesta Impact Investments – Impact Strategy Audit Report
Itad conducted an Impact Strategy Audit of Nesta Impact Investments (NII). This assessed their use of the strategy and compared it to best...
Theme update – summer 2018
It’s been a busy start to 2018. Here, each of our technical themes gives us a quick insight into what their highlights have been so far...
AVANTI – advancing knowledge for agricultural impact
National governments in the fields of agriculture and rural development across many low- and middle-income countries face challenges to tracking...
Executive summary: Nesta Impact Investments – Impact Strategy Audit Report
Itad conducted an Impact Strategy Audit of Nesta Impact Investments (NII). This assessed their use of the strategy and provided guidance on...
