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Most popular Itad blogs in 2019
With 2019 drawing to a close, we say farewell to the year with a list of some of our most popular blogs.
Dynamic monitoring and results: How the Propcom Mai-Karfi project designed and implemented an adaptive measurement system
Itad is leading the monitoring and evaluation spoke for BEAM Exchange, which aims to build the credibility of the market systems approach by...
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...
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...
Itad at Stockholm Evaluation Week 2018
Next week, Itad’s Tim Ruffer will be at Stockholm Evaluation Week (SEW), which this year centres around the theme of ‘Evaluation Capacity...
Chris Perry
Chris Perry is a Principal Consultant with over 20 years’ experience in the design, delivery and evaluation of development interventions.
Can we learn from system level social protection interventions?
Influencing change at system level is often very difficult to do, requiring different inputs in different contexts. It is also very difficult to...
Anti-corruption in Nigeria: Lessons and recommendations for future programming
Lessons from the Anti-Corruption in Nigeria (ACORN) project and recommendations for future programming
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...
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...
Three lessons from the 2017 UK Evaluation Society Conference
Itad was well represented at this years’ UK Evaluation Society (UKES) conference
Reflections from Development Studies Association Conference 2019
Itad's Ekaterina Shaleva reflects on her recent trip to the DSA conference and recent thinking on logframes and their utility in accountability...
State Accountability and Voice Initiative (SAVI)
Itad is a core consortium partner in State Accountability and Voice Initiative, providing staff, consultants and advice across the programme.
Practice highlights from 2019
Our themes and practices have had a productive year, continuing to deliver results in development in 2019. They have started work on exciting new...
60 seconds with…Chris Perry
Our ‘60 Seconds with…’ blogs are designed to provide a quick rundown of what our staff do here at Itad. Here is what Chris had to say…
Evaluating and Verifying Payment by Results Programmes
Highlights of the discussion about verification and evaluation of Payment By Results in the WASH MVE and GEC chat show at the UKES Conference.
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...
Conducting research & learning for Adolescents A360 Amplify to improve girls’ access to contraception
Itad is leading the research and learning agenda for Adolescents A360 over the course of 'Amplify' phase of the programme.
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...
Evaluation is crucial to reaching the FP2020 goals
The Health Theme in Itad has been thinking about what evaluation means to them in the family planning arena.
Continuing results in development:
the importance of evidence during COVID-19
The COVID-19 (C19) pandemic has had profound effects on lives around the world and will continue to do so for years, if not decades, to come....
Evaluating WaterAid’s sustainable water, sanitation and hygiene programme
Itad’s evaluation of WaterAid’s sustainable water, sanitation and hygiene programme (SusWASH) helped inform the design of future programmes...
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...
Real-time MEL for the Humanitarian Global Services Programme
The Humanitarian Global Services (HGS) Programme aims to improve the overall performance (quality, delivery and value-for-money of services...
