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Handwashing and COVID-19: The role of data in improving hygiene promotion
The COVID-19 pandemic has brought the importance of thorough handwashing to the fore in global efforts to curb the spread of...
Fairness beyond the race: Four questions for COVID-19 vaccine equity
The COVID-19 pandemic has seen an unprecedented response from the international community to address what will happen when a...
Ethics in evaluation and COVID-19: New practices in a changing world
The COVID-19 pandemic has created shockwaves around the world and has radically changed not only our usual working...
Maintaining a critical link to last-mile customers: Challenges and opportunities facing financial service agents during COVID-19
Agents are a critical last-mile link to financial services for lower-income households and micro- and small enterprises,...
How has COVID-19 affected data quality in the agriculture sector? Highlights on a recent e-Panel
An e-Panel, co-hosted by AVANTI and EvalForward, set out to explore this question. Our panellists, Armand Zoa, Joas Tugizimana...
Can innovation prizes improve lives for the poorest?
After six years, the UKAid-funded Ideas to Impact programme has come to an end, yielding an impressive amount of lessons on...
Mobilising private finance into low-carbon markets: Insights from the UK’s International Climate Finance
To tackle the global climate crisis and achieve a worldwide low-carbon transition, it will be essential to stimulate the...
Recovering better from COVID-19: Lessons from WASH and protracted crises
Globally, people living in protracted crises represent the ‘last mile’ in terms of reaching the SDGs — they are the most...
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...
MSD in disrupted markets: Important lessons from Nepal
Evaluating NMDP-Samarth (Nepal Market Development Programme-Samarth) - Nepal's first MSD (market systems development) programme
Measuring political access and influence in fragile and conflict-affected settings
Understanding political context and the influence of political interests is critical in delivering national and development...
Reasons to love L&D: empowering young professionals at Itad
Starting out at a new company can be a challenge for all of us, let alone if embarking on our first role in M&E. Research...
60 seconds with…Edward Cuzner
Our ‘60 Seconds with…’ blogs are designed to provide a quick rundown of what our staff do here at Itad. Read the latest...
Building partnerships for global change: Lessons from the China-UK Global Health Support Programme
China is at the centre of many current debates about global governance and will play an important role in global affairs in...
MEL in the time of COVID-19 in Nigeria: Ways to adapt
I was recently on a webinar panel anchored by ActionAid, which looked at adapting Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) during and...
Access to SRH services for persons with disabilities: mapping the evidence
A growing body of evidence shows that persons with disabilities have historically been denied their SRH (sexual and...