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New book highlights value of theories of change for social impact
Insights from Itad feature in a new book on how the Theory of Change framework can help those interested in designing impactful and...
Newly published stories of change illustrate value of evidence for global development
Every day, Itad is helping organisations tackle the greatest development and humanitarian challenges of our era. A new collection of stories of...
Using realist evaluation to support evidence-based policy making
An innovative Itad evaluation generated valuable lessons on what works to build capacity for evidence-informed policy making, as well as building...
Helping UNICEF improve its response in complex humanitarian settings
An award-winning Itad evaluation was integral in shaping UNICEF’s provision of more effective and equitable coverage in complex humanitarian...
Shaping organisational change for more effective philanthropy
An Itad evaluation conducted in partnership with global philanthropic organisation Porticus, led to organisational changes for more impactful...
Mapping Resilient and Sustainable Systems for Health for the Global Fund
Supporting The Global Fund to develop to better align financial investments into health systems with the national priorities of their recipients.
How can Foundations work with governments for agricultural change?
We are generating lessons on the best ways to work with governments as we evaluate how successful the Tony Blair Institute and the Alliance for a...
Simon Foster
Simon is a Consultant with Itad’s Inclusive Growth and Climate Change practice.
Itad’s COVAX evaluation provides rich insights for future pandemic responses
A newly-published Itad evaluation of the COVAX Facility and Advanced Market Commitment provides a balanced critique and lessons for pandemic...
Strengthening coherent global action to tackle the scourge of landmines
Our work has helped to strengthen the way the global mine action sector works collectively to reduce and eliminate the life-threatening impact of...
Improving access to contraception for adolescent girls
An Itad learning-focused process evaluation helped Population Services International (PSI) improve adolescent girls’ contraceptive programming...
Evaluating the effectiveness of Covid-19 vaccine delivery by the COVAX initiative
We evaluated the challenges, successes and lessons from the COVAX initiative to support Gavi to strengthen the ongoing Covid-19 vaccine response,...
Influencing humanitarian policy to protect refugee rights
An Itad evaluation of the global response to protect refugee rights during Covid-19 is influencing UN humanitarian agencies and global...
Providing performance recommendations to the World Food Programme
We are synthesising evaluations of the WFP from between 2018 and 2021 to provide evidence and recommendations on performance measurement and...
Time to throw out your indicators and embrace AI for systems change?
To embrace a systems perspective we must evolve monitoring, evaluation and learning (MEL) practice. But it’s a messy business. At a recent Itad...
How Finagle’s law can inform more impactful evaluations
Generating useful information for decision-makers is especially hard when conducting complex evaluations. But an article by Itad and KIT Royal...
Ashwin Seebah
Ashwin is a Senior Service Desk Analyst at Itad.
Developing LateriteAI – technology to automate tedious research tasks
Dimitri Stoelinga, co-founder of Laterite, shares their journey towards creating LateriteAI, a platform that harnesses the power of large...
Three years into the pandemic, what have we learned?
Today sees the launch of the first-ever and largest evaluation of humanitarian response to a pandemic, with best practices and lessons to step-up...
Three ways global evaluation organisations can help to localise MEL
Localising and decolonising the practice of monitoring, evaluation and learning (MEL) is an imperative of our era. It requires a step change for...
Embedding systems thinking in daily learning
Methodological innovation offers new ways to understand the complexity of the systems in which we operate. So, when global foundation Luminate...
Developing a learning system rooted in relational wellbeing
Marcus Jenal, Strategic Learning & Evaluation Lead at Fondation Botnar, invites feedback on his organisation’s ambitious attempt to develop a...
Harnessing the potential of natural language processing for MEL
Working in partnership, Itad and CASM Technology have been exploring the power of natural language processing (NLP) techniques to generate...
Learning brief: Learning from the Men and Women for Gender Equality programme
This brief summarises the key lessons from our evaluation of UN Women's vanguard regional programme in six Arab states.
