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A360 MTR Spotlight 3: Meaningful Youth Engagement
This brief draws out lessons from the Mid-Term Review on the role of youth engagement in A360. Despite attempts to standardize...
A360 MTR Spotlight 4: Service providers – the battle to serve
This brief draws out lessons from the Mid-Term Review on the challenges service providers face in delivering quality...
Adaptive Programming in Fragile, Conflict and Violence-Affected Settings. What Works and Under What Conditions? The Case of Institutions for Inclusive Development, Tanzania
Adaptive Management involves a dynamic interaction between three elements: delivery, programming and governance. This case...
Learning from mapping MLE capacity for advocacy
This learning paper pulls together our thinking and provides simple lessons for MEL partners and funders on how to support...
The complex reality of evaluation independence
An article in the Guardian got us thinking about the importance of independence in evaluation, and what ‘independence’...
Savings for youth: a review of evidence
This report is based on an in-depth review of 44 studies that examine the effects of a range of youth savings initiatives. The...
Corporate thematic evaluation of UN Women’s contribution to governance and national planning
This evaluation, planned under UN Women’s corporate evaluation plan1, focuses on UN Women’s contribution to Governance and...
In brief: Corporate evaluation of UN Women’s contribution to governance and national planning
This evaluation, planned under UN Women’s corporate evaluation plan1, focuses on UN Women’s contribution to Governance and...
Midterm Review of the Adolescents 360 Program
This midterm review synthesizes evaluation findings from the design phase of A360, drawing together insights from an ongoing...
A360 Evaluation Mid-Term Review Summary
This is a visual summary of the Midterm Review of the Adolescents 360 Program, which draws together insights from an ongoing...
A4EA: The Case for an Adaptive Approach to Empowerment and Accountability Programming in Fragile Settings
This A4EA paper brings together three case studies of large Department for International Development (DFID) governance...
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...
A brief introduction: Contribution Analysis and Bayesian Confidence Updating
This paper provides an introduction to contribution analysis and outlines how it establishes whether or not an intervention or...
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...
Evaluation of Gavi’s Gender Policy
This report presents the findings from the evaluation of Gavi’s 2013 Gender Policy. The evaluation was conducted by Itad in...
