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Handbook on Measuring Equity in Education
Our Education Lead, Rachel Outhred, has co-authored a chapter in the UNESCO Institute of Statistic’s recent handbook on...
Adolescents 360 Evaluation: What do service providers think about contraceptive service provision to 15–19 year old girls in Nigeria?
What are service providers’ perspectives of contraceptive service provision to adolescent girls in Nigeria? Using a...
How should donors manage adaptively? Market Systems Development as a case study.
Itad has recently completed a strategic evaluation for Sida to help them work through how they can best manage programmes that...
Recommendations…to co-create and or not to co-create?
As part of our efforts to make our work more useful for donors, implementing organisations and, ultimately, the people we’re...
Learning how to create a culture of learning
When we evaluated how the Norwegian Aid Administration practised Results-Based Management (RBM) earlier this year, one of our...
Technical Assessment of Completed RAP roads (Independent Verification Round 2)
The objective of the Rural Access Programme 3 (RAP) is to reduce poverty in western Nepal. The programme aims to deliver...
The role of Road Maintenance Groups in the Local Roads Network sector in rural Nepal
This policy brief explores the role of Road Maintenance Groups (RMGs) that a number of donor programmes fund in Nepal to...
The power of parsimony: why less might be more when it comes to grantee reporting
Itad's Laura Hopkins and Rob Lloyd identify three key ways in which funders and grantees can work together to reorient the...
What else does the MVP evaluation tell us?
In this blog, we dig deeper into the findings to explore the impact of the Millennium Villages Project (MVP) in Northern Ghana...
Tracking and measuring resilience in large programmes: lessons from BRACED
This paper shares insights on designing and implementing monitoring, evaluation and learning systems as well as generating...
GPE 2020 country-level prospective evaluation – Zimbabwe
This is the first of two annual reports to be submitted during the three-year prospective evaluation of GPE in Zimbabwe –...
GPE 2020 country-level prospective evaluation – Malawi
This is the first of two annual reports to be submitted during the three-year prospective evaluation (PE) of the Global...
GCRF Evaluation Foundation Stage: Final Report
This is the Final Report for the Foundation Stage evaluation of the GCRF (Global Challenges Research Fund).
New paper on African investments: The limits of job creation and social metrics
Metrics are useful, and the widespread use of standardised metrics and ratings have been helpful over the years. Still, many...
Reflections on evaluating integrated rural development
The latest IDS Bulletin ‘The Millennium Villages: Lessons on Evaluating Integrated Rural Development‘ brings together a...
Unforeseen benefits of the Millennium Villages Project in Northern Ghana
In this blog, Dee Jupp shares her experiences living in the home of an extended family in one of the Millennium Villages in...
