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Ideas to Impact, LPG Cylinder Prize: Evaluation Report
The Cylinder Prize ran for two months from July 2015 and was one of three prizes designed to support the planned reform of...
Ideas to Impact, LPG Cylinder Prize: Evaluation Report Summary
The Cylinder Prize ran for two months from July 2015 and was one of three prizes designed to support the planned reform of...
BRACED: Introducing the Resilience Exchange
BRACED is helping people become more resilient to climate extremes. As part of our monitoring, evaluation and learning role...
‘Catalyzing Transformative Change’ – Itad at the SEEP Network Annual Conference
Itad joined development practitioners, funders, researchers and private sector actors at the 2017 SEEP Network Annual Conference.
What can we learn from the Government Outcomes Lab?
Learning Advisor Catherine Fisher investigates a new research centre on outcomes-based commissioning and finds plenty of...
Evaluating complex programmes: Reflections on realism and resilience
This paper considers the challenges faced and lessons learned in the mid-term review of BRACED projects.
Innovation prizes and support to solvers – how much, how little?
Here we discuss the challenges of running innovation prizes for development and the questions around additional support to...
Resilience Measurement – MEL approaches in practice
This report offers a discussion of the key challenges and lessons in operationalizing resilience measurement-monitoring,...
Measuring progress towards SDGs: a Payment by Results perspective
Attending the 2017 WEDC Conference prompted WASH MVE team members to share their reflections on measuring progress towards...
What works for social accountability? Findings from DFID’s macro evaluation
I wrote my first blog on DFID’s macro evaluation of its empowerment and accountability project portfolio way back in 2015,...
Measuring Social Norms on WEE Programmes: Lessons from Itad’s Work in Gender Equality
The role of social norms change in economically empowering women was a hot topic at the SEEP Women’s Economic Empowerment...
Itad joins GPSA as Global Partner
Itad has joined the Global Partnership for Social Accountability (GPSA) as a Global Partner. In doing so, we have joined...
Making progress: BRACED at the mid-term
This report presents a synthesis of project-level mid-term reviews (MTR), carried out after 18 months’ implementation of the...
What works for Social Accountability? Findings from DFID’s Macro Evaluation
This briefing summarises the main findings from our evaluation of DFID's support to social accountability initiatives and...
What role will China play in global health and how will we work together?
China has historically been a recipient of development assistance and funding, but this is changing with the country’s...
Evaluation of DFID-CHAI market-shaping for access to safe, effective and affordable health commodities
The UK Department for International Development (DFID) commissioned an independent evaluation of its £35m programme of...
