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Evaluation of The Norwegian Aid Administration’s Practice of Results-Based Management
There is a clear political commitment to measuring and managing for results in the Norwegian aid administration. Despite this commitment however...
UNICEF Programming in Health Systems Strengthening – A Formative Evaluation
There is currently widespread recognition that the goal of improved health for all people cannot be achieved without stronger health systems....
Centre for Development Impact Update – Summer 2017
We’ve had a busy start to 2017 at the Centre for Development Impact.
Northern Ghana Millennium Villages Impact Evaluation: Preliminary Report on the Fourth Round of Data
The Millennium Villages Project (MVP) has been designed to demonstrate how an integrated approach to community-led development can translate the...
How accountability trumps learning: three lessons from evaluating the Tilitonse programme
Mel Punton and Julia Hamaus discuss their presentation at the UK Evaluation Society conference this year
Final report: Impact evaluation of the DFID Programme to accelerate improved nutrition for the extreme poor in Bangladesh
Itad, as part of a consortium with the Institute of Development Studies, the International Food Policy Research Institute, BRAC Institute of...
RAP Beneficiaries’ Feedback Report 2017
To date, there have been several studies conducted by the independent Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning (MEL) component of RAP3, some of which...
The road to impact: how do we ensure that evidence is both useful and used?
How do we use evidence to influence? How can we broker a dialogue with new audiences and create spaces where we can learn from each other?
The irony of evaluation – thoughts from the annual UKES conference
My initial reaction to my first UKES conference was that it all seemed slightly ironic that a group of dedicated evaluation professionals...
Pushing the boundaries: considering new ways of utilising evaluations
Itad's Bara Sladkova reflects on this year's UKES Conference, which explored the current ways of utilising evaluations.
Itad’s 4 top takeaways from the SEEP Women’s Economic Empowerment Forum
Mollie Liesner blogs on her top 4 takeaways from the SEEP Women's Economic Empowerment Forum in Bangkok.
Increasing the use of evaluation results: three tensions to navigate
As pressure to demonstrate Value for Money and results in international development increases in the current political climate, funding and...
60 seconds with…Richard Burge
Our ‘60 Seconds with…’ blogs are designed to provide a quick run down of what our staff do here at Itad. Here is what Richard Burge had to...
Evaluation of the UNICEF PMTCT/Paediatric HIV Care and Treatment Programme
UNICEF commissioned Itad to conduct an evaluation of the prevention of mother-to-child transmission of HIV (PMTCT) and paediatric HIV care and...
Too complex to measure? Exploring the dynamic processes of resilience and recovery
Measuring resilience helps to build crucial evidence about how and why resilience is being strengthened, for whom, and in which contexts.
Evaluations – are they of any use? Reflections before and after the UKES conference
I'm looking forward to attending the UK Evaluation Society’s annual conference this year. Its focus on the usefulness of evaluations appears to...
Itad at the 2017 UK Evaluation Society conference
Several staff represented Itad at this years’ UKES conference on ‘demonstrating and improving the usefulness of evaluation’.
Design of the Democratic Governance Facility
Itad’s Richard Burge led an eight-person team to design a five-year multi-donor governance programme in Uganda. Working closely with eight...
Six things that help grant-makers learn and adapt
There’s an emerging body of literature identifying key strategies that can both improve learning and enable adaptive management amongst...
Causality and attribution in market systems development
Attribution is the establishment of a causal link between (parts of) an observed change and a specific intervention. Attribution is a key...
Causality and attribution in market systems development
A new paper aims to shed light on the current theoretical/academic and practitioner understanding of attribution and causality.
Thoughts from the International Association for Impact Assessment conference
Gil Yaron, team leader on our BRACED impact evaluation, reflects on his presentation at the International Association for Impact Assessment...
Expect the unexpected: unanticipated consequences and development programming
You’ll be familiar with the basic logic of development programmes: there’s a serious problem to address; we have designed a solution, we can...
Post-hoc quality assessment and annual summary report services for the World Food Programme
The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) is the world’s largest humanitarian agency, providing food assistance to around 80 million people...
