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The Value of Evaluation: Tools for Budgeting and Valuing Evaluations
The discussion paper explores 'The Value of Evaluation: Tools for Budgeting and Valuing Evaluations'.
Why innovation prizes for development are interesting to evaluate
Do innovation prizes work in development? What is their value and use, especially compared to other forms of funding?
Evaluation of Norway’s support to Capacity Development
Towards the end of last year Itad’s Organisational Effectiveness theme conducted an evaluation of Norway’s support to public sector capacity...
Independent verification of RAP 3 Disbursement Linked Indicators (DLI)
The MEL-led independent verification of RAP3 has been initiated following recommendations from the 2015 DFID Annual Review. Funding of the...
Nepal Rural Access Programme – Reality Check Approach Midline Report 2016
This report presents the main findings of the Midline Reality Check Approach (RCA) study conducted in April 2016, two years after the baseline...
60 Seconds with…Alex Cornelius
Our ‘60 Seconds with…’ blogs are designed to provide a quick run down of what our staff do here at Itad. Here is what Alex Cornelius had to...
Partnership to Engage, Reform and Learn (PERL) – Engaged Citizens
The Engaged Citizens pillar within PERL (Partnership to Engage, Reform and Learn) Nigeria supports citizens to engage more effectively to...
Itad Project Update – Summer 2016
Itad’s themes have started some exciting work on projects with a range of clients this year.
Evaluation of CIFF’s work on improving air quality in China
Itad has started work on an evaluation of two CIFF-funded programmes in China which aim to accelerate the adoption of new climate-smart norms in...
Partnership to Engage, Reform and Learn (PERL) – Accountable, Responsive and Capable Government Pillar
Although Nigeria has made progress with socio-economic development in recent years, about 90 million people - roughly half Nigeria's population...
Brexit
Following the UK’s decision to leave the European Union, we wish to reconfirm our commitment to working internationally with development...
The Quality of Reviews and Decentralised Evaluations in Norwegian Development Cooperation
With growing demand for evidence on the effectiveness of Norwegian aid, reviews and decentralised evaluations play an important role in telling...
Measuring social norm change: where do we go from here?
In June 2016, I had the pleasure of joining a select group of social norm measurement aficionados, including researchers from the London School...
Direct Beneficiaries’ Feedback Report: Listening to the voices of RAP participants
This report presents the findings of a beneficiary feedback process conducted by the MEL. This process set out to capture feedback directly from...
Centre for Development Impact Update – Summer 2016
The Centre for Development Impact (CDI) has been very active over the last six months, publishing several CDI Practice Papers, holding (and...
Building Capacity to Use Research Evidence (BCURE) Evaluation: Stage 1 Synthesis Report
This report presents a synthesis of the results from Stage 1 of the evaluation of DFID’s Building Capacity to Use Research Evidence (BCURE)...
Itad’s Gender Snapshot Review: charting the way forward for mainstreaming gender within our work and operations
Since joining the HeforShe campaign, Itad has reviewed how gender currently features in our work through a ‘gender snapshot review’.
Independent Review of the Rural Access Programme’s Performance Management and Verification (M&E) System
The Performance Management and Verification (PMV) system is the Rural Access Programme’s (RAP) internal M&E system used to collect, aggregate...
Moving targets and going in circles
Itad's Julian Barr reflects on SAVI, BRACED, and flexible and adaptive programming in international development.
DFID’s Action for Empowerment and Accountability (A4EA) research programme
Donors need quality evidence to say what works and what doesn’t to support the empowerment of citizens and hold governments to account. This is...
Evaluating complex change across projects and contexts: Methodological lessons from a macro evaluation of DFID’s social accountability portfolio
Itad's Florian Schatz details methodological lessons from a macro evaluation of DFID's social accountability portfolio and the challenges of...
How can capacity development promote evidence-informed policy making?
Itad's BCURE evaluation team uncovers three important lessons in how and why different approaches to capacity building for evidence-informed...
Review of the RAP-3 Theory of Change
The 2016 review is a critical examination of the RAP3 theory of change conducted in consultation with stakeholders to reflect and review the...
Evaluation of UNICEF’s PMTCT/paediatric AIDS programme
Itad has been contracted to evaluate UNICEF’s efforts to support scale up of PMTCT of HIV & Paediatric HIV care and treatment programs over the...
