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Improving resilience measurement: Learning to adapt – Itad Practice Paper 01
Strengthening resilience is critical if communities are to respond positively to extreme events, climate change and disasters. The concept of...
Learning to go virtual: Our highlights from the WISH Learning Event
In early December 2020, Itad facilitated the annual Women’s Integrated Sexual Health (WISH) Programme Learning Event. In our role as Third...
Making the most of 0.5% – what now for the UK aid budget?
The UK government has announced that the 2015 commitment to spend 0.7% of Gross National Income (GNI) on foreign aid will be reduced in 2021 to...
Learning to evaluate transformational change – Itad Think Piece 01
We urgently need a low carbon and climate-resilient future. Incremental adaptation may no longer be enough – transformational change offers the...
Balancing the UK’s development objectives and national interest: Three lessons for the FCO/DFID merger
There has been wide-ranging debate over the last weeks about the UK Government announcement to merge DFID and FCO into the new FCDO. One concern...
Remote workshop facilitation: Lessons from lockdown
A central part of our work here at Itad is facilitating workshops and creative thinking of all kinds. From putting together theories of change,...
Nobel prizes and methodological wars. But are we using enough evidence to end poverty?
We were pleased to see development economists Michael Kremer, Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo win the Nobel prize for economics this week.
The complex reality of evaluation independence
An article in the Guardian got us thinking about the importance of independence in evaluation, and what ‘independence’ means, beyond a black...
Five key principles for Adaptive Social Protection programming
‘Adaptive Social Protection’ (ASP) came from a realisation that social protection, disaster risk reduction and climate change adaptation were...
Six Lessons from the 2016 UK Evaluation Society Conference
Itad was well represented at this years’ UK Evaluation Society (UKES) conference
60 Seconds with…Emmeline Willcocks
Our ‘60 Seconds with…’ blogs are designed to provide a quick run down of what our staff do here at Itad. Here is what Emmeline Willcocks...
Itad Celebrates 30th Anniversary
On Friday 21st November, we celebrated our 30th Anniversary with an event at The Grand Hotel in Brighton.