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Checking in With the Savings Evidence Map
Launched in 2018 as part of the Savings Learning Lab activities, this is the Savings Evidence Map. Discover all 299 studies...
60 seconds with…Ruth Sherratt
Our ‘60 Seconds with…’ blogs are designed to provide a quick rundown of what our staff do here at Itad. Read the latest...
Adaptive Approaches and Conflict Sensitivity in fragile, conflict and violence-affected (FCVAS) settings – a comparison of approaches
The need to be flexible and adaptive in FCVAS has received attention for nearly two decades under the concept of conflict...
60 seconds with…Itad’s Inclusive and Sustainable Business theme
Our ‘60 Seconds with…’ blogs are designed to provide a quick rundown of what our staff do here at Itad. To celebrate...
From compliance to love with MEL: Supporting busy advocacy organisations to embrace monitoring, evaluation and learning
Over the course of our work with advocacy organisations, we’ve identified three insights about how to cross the divide from...
Itad’s Green Team: Can we mainstream environmental sustainability into our work?
As efforts increase around the world to combat climate change, you can read our latest blog from Itad's own Green Team, who...
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...
The complex reality of evaluation independence
An article in the Guardian got us thinking about the importance of independence in evaluation, and what ‘independence’...
60 seconds with…Katherine Gibney
Our ‘60 Seconds with…’ blogs are designed to provide a quick run down of what our staff do here at Itad. Here is what...
Reflections from the 2019 UK Evaluation Society Conference
In our UKES conference blog this year, Talar Bogosyan explores how evaluation can keep pace in our digital world, Jessica...
Complex systems thinking in international development
Itad's Ed Hedley reflects on one of the main themes from the 2019 UK Evaluation Society conference, complex systems thinking...
No time to wait: evaluating the fight against ‘Drugmageddon’
This week, the UK’s Chief Medical Officer, Sally Davies, called for an Extinction Rebellion-style campaign to raise...
Reflections on decentralised climate finance from CBA13
I recently witnessed the potential of a funding mechanism that allows indigenous people and local communities to determine how...
Is open access worth it? Maybe not yet, but we should still do it!
During the impact evaluation of the Millennium Villages project in northern Ghana, we opened up our datasets for wider...
Linking mine action to development: the need for generating evidence of longer-term change
With the annual UN International Mine Awareness Day on April 4, Jason Collodi and Tom Gillhespy from Itad’s Fragile and...
Why funders need to practice adaptive portfolio management to support systems change
Much like traditional investors, development funders often manage portfolios of investments. But what does it mean to manage a...