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Project update – Winter 2017
Our technical themes have started work across varied and interesting projects over the last six months, here we look at some...
Routes to resilience: insights from BRACED year 2
Two years into implementation of the Building Resilience and Adaptation to Climate Extremes and Disasters (BRACED) programme,...
Routes to resilience: lessons from monitoring BRACED year 2
This paper shares insights, reflections and lessons learnt from designing, implementing and reporting against the Building...
Summary: Routes to resilience: insights from BRACED year 2
BRACED is the biggest global effort to build resilience locally, in highly vulnerable places, yet at scale. Two years into the...
Summary: Routes to resilience: lessons from monitoring BRACED year 2
To understand what works well and what does not in building climate and disaster resilience, the BRACED Knowledge Manager...
The Role of External Actors in Supporting Social and Political Action towards Empowerment and Accountability with a Focus on Fragile, Conflict- and Violence-Affected Settings
This paper explores the role and experience of external actors, particularly donors, in supporting social and political action...
Centre for Development Impact Update – Winter 2017
The past six months have seen some exciting changes at the Centre for Development Impact (CDI).
IDEAS in Mexico: A new chapter for evaluation?
Itad's Chris Barnett and Rachel Eager have published a chapter 'New Frontiers for Evaluation in a Fast-Changing World'
Itad at the Joint Evaluation Conference
The Itad team are excited to be attending the Joint Evaluation Conference in Guanajuato, Mexico, organised by ReLAC,...
Impact Evaluation of the SADA Millennium Villages Project in Northern Ghana Annex C: Endline Reality Check Approach
The endline Reality Check Approach (RCA) was conducted as the last of the monitoring and evaluation elements of the...
Reflections on our experience of DFID’s results agenda
As verifiers of a DFID Results Based Finance programme, ODI’s research on the UK’s results agenda prompted us to reflect...
Reflections from the IAAH
Christina Atchison and Emma Mulhern reflect on attending the 11th World Congress on Adolescent Health in New Delhi, India
Evaluation of The Hewlett Foundation’s Strategy to Apply Human-Centred Design to Improve Family Planning and Reproductive Health in Sub-Saharan Africa
Since 2013, the Hewlett Foundation (the Foundation) has supported IDEO.org and Marie Stopes International (MSI) to apply...
How much value do Value Added Models provide for the quality of schools?
What value might Value Added Models might bring to developing an accountability measure for school quality in the development...
What evidence is there for the impact of market systems development?
The strength (or weakness) of evidence to support use of the market systems approach is a topic that always provokes heated...
Review of Rural Roads Maintenance Planning in Nepal
This report by the independent Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning (MEL) component of the Rural Access Programme 3 (RAP3)...
