News from us

The first set of annual country reports for our prospective evaluation of the Global Partnership for Education (GPE) have been published. The reports form part of a global evaluation led by Universalia, under which 22 summative evaluations and eight three-year prospective country-level evaluations are being conducted between 2017 and 2020.

Covering the Democratic …

Itad’s Stefanie Wallach joined Tiffany Franke on the Adolescents Insights group podcast series (made for the HCD Exchange) to reflect on our work evaluating Human-Centred Design (HCD) projects.

Stefanie shared learnings from our HCD evaluations, how they differ from traditional evaluations, the tools and approaches we’ve found effective and how the work of our …

Partners from the Mastercard Foundation Savings Learning Lab have recently shared lessons from their work in financial inclusion and savings groups.

Savings and Retail Banking in Africa – Results from 2018 WSBI member bank survey – WSBI’s first annual report from 2018 encompasses primary data research gathered from the Institution’s African membership, …

Itad’s Tom Gillhespy will be at the 22nd International Meeting of Mine Action National Directors and United Nations Advisers (NDM-UN) in Geneva this week. NDM-UN is an annual meeting where mine action stakeholders meet to discuss emerging issues, and exchange best practices and lessons learned.

At a side event on Thursday 7th February, Tom will present our work …

Itad’s Sam McPherson will be at ‘The Power of 10: Shaping the Future of Climate Action’ in Ouarzazate, Morocco, on 28th and 29th January. Sam will be with other members of the evaluation team, including Matthew Savage, the technical lead.

Organised by the Climate Investment Funds (CIF) as part of their celebration of 10 years of climate action, the event …

Our Education Lead, Rachel Outhred, has co-authored a chapter in the UNESCO Institute of Statistic’s recent handbook on measuring equity in education.

The handbook shows how countries can measure the education progress of the most marginalized populations to ensure no one is left behind. Sustainable Development Goal 4 (SDG 4) calls for inclusive and equitable …

The Millennium Villages Impact Evaluation (MVEval) will be presenting its findings of the DFID-funded SADA Millennium Villages Project in Northern Ghana to a gathering of senior policy-makers in Accra on Monday 12 November 2018. The event is one of several the evaluation team is undertaking in-country to share insights and lessons on how strategies to reduce poverty …

Itad is pleased to announce a new learning partnership with Gatsby Africa (Gatsby).

Gatsby’s work aims to facilitate economic growth and catalyse large-scale and lasting change in priority sectors, such as cotton in Tanzania. The learning partnership will help Gatsby to strengthen their Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning capacity across the organisation and …

30th October, 13.00 GMT

Join us for the official launch of the Savings Evidence Map with an interactive demonstration on how to access and navigate the Map and make sense of the most recent evidence on savings initiatives.

As part of the Mastercard Foundation Savings Learning Lab, Itad and The SEEP Network developed a searchable, interactive evidence map that …

An independent impact evaluation of a Millennium Villages Project (MVP) covering 35 villages in Northern Ghana was led by Itad in partnership with the Institute of Development Studies (IDS) and Participatory Development Associates Ghana (PDA Ghana).

The Millennium Villages in Northern Ghana Impact Evaluation (MVEval) was funded by the UK Department for …

How are we Measuring up to the Resilience Challenge?

The first-ever conference of the Resilience Measurement, Evidence and Learning Community of Practice (CoP), with its sponsors and partners, will bring together RMEL innovators and experts from across disciplines, sectors and geographies; their common passion is generating robust knowledge which enables …

As Itad continues to grow and evolve its offer and client base, we have expanded our leadership team to include eight partners who will lead on the delivery of our work across our technical areas and provide a more bespoke and focussed service for our clients.

Our partners are:

Tim Ruffer, who will become Managing Partner and oversee the implementation of …

Join us this week at the European Evaluation Society (EES) Biennial conference, where several members of the Itad team will present work from a variety of our projects.

Wednesday 3rd October

10am, Olympias room. In a session on resilient climate change, Clare Stott will reflect on our work with the Global Resilience Partnership and unpack how evaluation can be …

Due to a technical issue we have experienced problems receiving e-mails since Friday 28th September at approximately 17:30 (BST).

Although the majority of e-mails are now reaching us, we are aware of some ongoing intermittent issues.  If you have sent an e-mail to someone at Itad since that time then it may not have been received. Please re-send your e-mail if …

Itad’s Tim Ruffer was at Stockholm Evaluation Week (SEW), which this year centred around the theme of ‘Evaluation Capacity Development’.

Tim presented findings from our evaluation of Sida’s management of Market Systems Development(MSD) projects.  The evaluation was commissioned with two purposes: (i) to provide recommendations for improvements to …

A major new report, published by Itad on 18th September 2018, details the findings from our five-year evaluation of the DFID-funded Millennium Village Project in Northern Ghana.

Findings were mixed, with positive impacts found in the areas of education, health, and hygiene – however, we found that significant progress was not made overall on reducing levels of …

Join us Tuesday 11th September, when, with our partners Helvetas and the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), we will officially launch AVANTI – Advancing Knowledge for Agricultural Impact.

AVANTI is an innovative, new IFAD programme that aims to strengthen the ability of national governments to report against the SDGs in the agricultural …

It’s been a busy start to 2018. Here, each of our technical themes gives us a quick insight into what their highlights have been so far…

Education theme continues to grow

Over the past six months, Itad’s Education theme has welcomed Maria Pomes-Jimenez as a principal consultant and Ignacio Torrano as an analyst. As a team, we are working on a …

This year, Itad’s technical themes have started work across varied and interesting projects. Read on to find out more…

Itad’s Climate Change theme is implementing an evaluation for the World Bank-funded Climate Investment Fund (CIF) to examine the Transformational Change Learning Partnership undertaken by CIF’s Evaluation and Learning Initiative. The aim …

Itad is pleased to announce the formal launch of a new Impact Investing and Innovative Finance Theme, led by principal consultant Charley Clarke.

Our decision to launch a theme focused entirely on Impact Investing and Innovative Finance is in response to emerging trends and challenges in international development. It is estimated that investment in developing …

Thu, May 31, 2018 1:00 PM – 2:30 PM BST

Voices for Change (V4C) sought to strengthen the enabling environment for young women’s empowerment in Nigeria. It did this by taking a norms marketing approach to inspire young people’s attitudinal and behaviour change towards women’s role in household decision-making, women’s leadership, and violence against women …

Several Itad staff members will be at the 2018 UK Evaluation Society (UKES) conference, which this year is framed around the evaluation cycle, considering the demand for, supply and use of evidence from evaluations.

Spanning the 2nd and 3rd of May, the conference will be opened by Itad Non-Executive Director and current UKES President, Julian Barr.

On …

Thursday 19th of April 2018 14.45 – 18.00 Itad, Preece House, Brighton

Itad leads a dynamic and exciting portfolio of Monitoring, Evaluation, Research and Learning (MERL) work for global health, spanning the globe. Through our work as learning partners with key development funders and implementers, we are directly putting results into impact. In the past 5 …

Itad Associate Director Rob Lloyd was in Oslo on 9th March 2018 talking about our evaluation of the Norwegian Aid Administration’s Practice of Results-Based Management.

The focus of this evaluation, commissioned by the independent evaluation department in Norad and conducted with the Chr. Michelsen Institute, was to understand how RBM works in practice within …

As part of our work with the Mastercard Foundation Savings Learning Lab, Itad is a conference partner at SG2018: The Power of Savings Groups in Rwanda this May.

Convened by one of the Savings Learning Lab partners, the SEEP Network, the conference is a platform for attendees to connect, engage and learn from each other about the challenges and opportunities they …

Itad’s Mollie Liesner, James Robinson and Edward Hedley will be joining policy makers, funders and practitioners to discuss results measurement and market systems development at an upcoming DCED-BEAM seminar in Nairobi.

Drawing on their work from across our Private Sector Development, Markets and Trade theme, they will be presenting in four sessions:

Mollie …

BRACED projects cover a wide range of issues, from securing, servicing and promoting trans-border livestock mobility across the Sahel, to sharing skills and technology to improve the uptake of climate information in Ethiopia, to supporting smallholder farmers in Nepal to take advantage of economic opportunities and investments in climate-smart technologies.

Itad, …

Our technical themes have started work across varied and interesting projects over the last six months, here we look at some of the highlights.

Climate change theme broadens work on measuring resilience

Itad’s Climate Change theme are conducting a Strategic Evaluation of the World Food Programme’s Support for Enhanced Resilience. Through this evaluation, we …

It’s been a busy 2017 across the company. Here, each of our technical themes gives us a quick insight into what their highlights have been.

BRACED team publish two new papers

The members of the Climate Change theme working on BRACED have spent the last 6 months analysing and synthesising qualitative evidence from year 2 of the programme. The findings have …

The past six months have seen some exciting changes at the Centre for Development Impact (CDI).

We welcomed our new director, Giel Ton, who, as a research fellow at IDS brings with him significant experience in the design of mixed-methods impact evaluations in agricultural value chains and private-sector development, and new deputy director, Rachel Eager, who, as …

The Itad team are excited to be attending the Joint Evaluation Conference in Guanajuato, Mexico, organised by ReLAC, REDLACME and IDEAS.

The theme of the conference is ‘Evaluation for the Sustainable Development Goals: transforming life through global and regional partnerships’, with an emphasis on Latin America and the Caribbean.

Itad’s Vicky Sword-Daniels …

Itad, in collaboration with 100 Resilient Cities (100RC) and Slum Dwellers International (SDI) has been awarded a grant to explore resilience planning processes within cities. The project will pilot ways to strengthen the connections between city-level resilience planning and slum dwellers through integrating SDI’s Know Your City data into the 100RC Resilience …

Itad’s Vicky Sword-Daniels and Robbie Gregorowski will be at the 15th annual Development and Climate days event at COP23 held alongside the UN climate talks in Bonn, Germany. More than 300 policymakers, researchers and development practitioners are expected to attend the two-day event, which has the theme ‘Global ambition. Local action. Climate resilience for …

Itad’s Rob Lloyd and Andrew McConnochie are at the American Evaluation Association’s annual conference, where they will be joining in discussions around the conference theme of ‘from learning to action’.

Rob will be leading two sessions on Friday 10th November:

At 11am in Madison B room, he will be sharing insights from our impact evaluation of DFID’s …

Many citizens (especially in Africa and Asia) have been left behind by the growing global economy and technological innovation. This rising inequality is further advanced by conflict, insecurity and migration.
In the US, UK and Europe – especially following the Brexit vote and the Trump presidency – we have seen the policy space polarised with an increasing …

As part of our work with the Mastercard Foundation Savings Learning Lab, Itad is supporting SG2018: The Power of Savings Groups, convened by The SEEP Network.

SG2018 will take place in Rwanda, from the 22nd to the 24th May, and will offer a platform for attendees to connect, engage and learn from each other about the challenges and opportunities they face in …

4th October, 3pm BST.

In 2014 DFID commissioned Itad, through the e‑Pact consortium, to undertake a macro evaluation of its Empowerment and Accountability policy frame, which came into effect in 2011. The analysis focussed on social accountability approaches to E&A and worked to generate learning from DFID’s project portfolio about what works, for whom, in …

BRACED is helping people become more resilient to climate extremes. As part of our monitoring, evaluation and learning role with the programme’s Knowledge Manager, Itad is supporting knowledge generation and lesson learning and has contributed to a new flagship report, the Resilience Exchange (Rx).

The RX shares what the 120+ organisations involved in BRACED …

This October Itad will be joining development practitioners, funders, researchers and private sector actors at the 2017 SEEP Network Annual Conference in Washington DC. Under this year’s theme, ‘Catalyzing Transformative Change’, we will be contributing to sector understanding of approaches that bring about large scale positive change in markets and financial …

Itad has joined the Global Partnership for Social Accountability (GPSA) as a Global Partner. In doing so, we have joined organisations from around the world to further GPSA’s aims and participate in knowledge exchange.

More information about the GPSA:

Established in 2012 by the World Bank’s Board of Directors, the Global Partnership for Social Accountability …

During the first half of 2017, Itad has continued to start new work with a range of clients, across our themes.

The health theme is working with UNICEF on a formative evaluation of their health systems strengthening (HSS) approaches. They are examining two separate but inter-related domains of UNICEF’s engagement in HSS – how UNICEF as an organisation is …

The Millennium Villages Project (MVP) has been designed to demonstrate how an integrated approach to community-led development can translate the international Millennium Development Goals into results. The project in northern Ghana is one of several projects instigated over the past 10 years, which together are set to reach nearly half a million people across 10 …

We’ve had a busy start to 2017 at the Centre for Development Impact.

We ran a short course at the Institute of the Development Studies on ‘Designing Effective Ways to Evaluate Impact’ and had a fantastic group of participants who enjoyed exploring alternative causal thinking and different design choices to address real-life evaluation challenges. The School …

Itad is excited to announce that our team has moved to a new location in central Hove.

We’ve spent 12 years in English Business Park, and our offices have served us well but are no longer fit for purpose (even though we’ve been lucky to have been able to move into neighbouring units as our company has grown over the last few years!)

Our new space has given …

Itad, as part of a consortium with the Institute of Development Studies, the International Food Policy Research Institute, BRAC Institute of Governance and Development, and the Center for Natural Resource Studies, delivered a process evaluation and cost-effectiveness assessment as part of the wider impact evaluation of an innovative hybrid programme linking …

Several staff represented Itad at this years’ UKES conference on ‘demonstrating and improving the usefulness of evaluation’. They spoke on a range of subjects from the utility of evaluation to the role of accountability and learning in evaluation.

On Wednesday, Greg Gleed discussed recent Itad projects that have evaluated the quality and utility of …

Itad is pleased to announce the launch of a new Gender and Empowerment Theme, led by principal consultant Claire Hughes.

Our decision to launch a theme focused entirely on Gender is significant. We have worked on gender projects for several years but they formed part of our wider Empowerment and Accountability theme, so promoting gender equality didn’t always …

Are you looking for an interesting research project where you can undertake your own analysis of existing datasets? If yes, then some of our evaluation data might help!

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The Millennium Villages Project (MVP) was created to explicitly demonstrate how the Millennium Development Goals could be achieved at the local level, using an integrated and scaled-up set …

As part of our work with the BEAM Exchange, we have launched a new platform for practitioners to share and read stories of challenges to monitoring and results measurement on programmes applying a market systems development approach.

The platform provides a space for programme-to programme learning, to support the community by sharing stories of the challenges …

Itad is seeking a service provider to conduct a baseline survey for the Adolescent 360 (A360) programme in Ethiopia.

The survey will be undertaken on behalf of Itad, who leads the consortium for the evaluation, and the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM), which leads the outcome evaluation for the programme. More information can found in the …

Itad is seeking a service provider to conduct a baseline survey for the Adolescent 360 (A360) programme in Illemela District in Mwanza Region, Tanzania.

The survey will be undertaken on behalf of Itad, who leads the consortium for the evaluation, and the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM), which leads the outcome evaluation for the programme. …

Itad is seeking a service provider to conduct a baseline survey for the Adolescent 360 (A360) programme in two states of Nigeria.

The survey will be undertaken on behalf of Itad, who leads the consortium for the evaluation, and the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM), which leads the outcome evaluation for the programme. More information can …

Over the last six months, the Centre for Development Impact (CDI) has continued to contribute to learning and debates about the way we evaluate impact.

Our partnership with the Institute of Development Studies (IDS) and the University of East Anglia (UEA) cuts across disciplines, policy research areas and evaluation silos, and provides a ‘space’ to convene and …

Over the last six months, Itad has continued to secure work across all our themes, through which we can drive more effective use of resources in international development.

We are looking forward to continuing our partnership with OPM on DFID’s Global Evaluation Framework Agreement (GEFA II), and to working on two Dutch Government evaluation frameworks: the …

Itad has created the Knowledge Hub, a new internal team whose aim is to support and strengthen our knowledge, and enable the company to deliver our core values of technical excellence and collaboration and learning.

The hub provides company-wide support for Itad’s learning and knowledge sharing by:

facilitating knowledge sharing and management
acting as …

This week Itad’s Rob Lloyd and associate Isabel Vogel will be on a panel at the 2016 What Works Global Summit in London, discussing ‘global perspectives on the use of evidence’.

Using experience from our evaluation of DFID’s BCURE programme, they will present on ‘what works in building capacity for evidence informed policy making’. If you are at the …

Itad staff and associates will be at this year’s European Evaluation Society (EES) Conference in Maastricht, the Netherlands, presenting and taking part in workshops on a range of topics.

Mel Punton will share reflections from our realist evaluation of BCURE in a session on ‘Realist Evaluation: Feasibility and Challenges’, and, in conjunction with Sarah …

This week, Itad’s Charley Clarke will be at The SEEP Network’s annual conference in Arlington, Virginia, participating in two sessions as part of the ‘Getting and Using the Right Kinds of Evidence’ technical track.

At 11am (UTC) on Tuesday, Charley will be part of a discussion on ‘understanding Systemic Change in Market Systems’, exploring lessons and …

This week Itad’s Charley Clarke and Sam McPherson will be at SOCAP16, a conference ‘at the intersection of money and meaning’, exploring how we can help impact investors, social entrepreneurs and others understand how their investments are delivering social impact.

Measuring the impact of impact investing is vital for understanding what works and why, and …

Itad’s themes have started some exciting work on projects with a range of clients this year.

The Health theme is leading an evaluation of UNICEF’s efforts to support scale up of prevention of mother to child transmission of HIV and Paediatric HIV care and treatment programs over the past decade. The theme is also implementing the Fifth Monitoring Round …

Following the UK’s decision to leave the European Union, we wish to reconfirm our commitment to working internationally with development organisations within the UK and globally, and in the way we value and employ staff from around the world. There is no change in the status of any Itad projects.

Our focus on helping to ensure that international development …

The Centre for Development Impact (CDI) has been very active over the last six months, publishing several CDI Practice Papers, holding (and attending) seminars and events, and furthering ways to broaden the way we evaluate impact.

We’ve published six CDI Practice Papers, adding to our substantial archive:

Qualitative Comparative Analysis: A Valuable Approach …

Itad’s Claire Hughes will be joining a working group of researchers, practitioners, and donors next week in Baltimore for a two-day meeting exploring how social norms change can be facilitated and measured in the field, particularly with regards to gender-based violence.

The overall goal of the working group is to create a community to help researchers and …

An evaluation team from Itad has been examining how and why different approaches to capacity building for evidence-informed policy making (EIPM) work, for whom, and in which contexts.

The team’s findings are part of a three-year realist impact evaluation of the Building Capacity to Use Research Evidence (BCURE) programme that aims to strengthen the global …

Itad’s Non-Executive Director Julian Barr, held a BRACED webinar in June 2016 to explore flexible and adaptive programming in the complex field of Climate Change.

Development is increasingly dealing with complex problems such as climate change and conflict. Blueprint project plans don’t tend to work in such situations – solutions are more like to emerge …

This April, Itad spent an informative and enlightening week with Realist Evaluation (RE) expert, Dr Gill Westhorp. Gill is the Director of Community Matters, a consultancy based in south Australia, and having her here, with her extensive RE experience, provided us with an opportunity to learn and improve our practices and programmes.

Included in the week …

Itad had lots of representatives at this years’ UK Evaluation Society (UKES) Conference, speaking on a range of subjects from measuring resilience in complex contexts to championing change through evaluation.

Dave Wilson and Robbie Gregorowski reflected on the lessons they are learning on our BRACED project, in particular how they have translated …

This Earth Day, Itad’s Sarah Standley, Robbie Gregorowski, and Dave Wilson reflect on how MEL systems provide answers for development in a warming world in this featured piece on Devex.

They consider applying MEL systems to climate change, the critical importance of accountability, evaluative learning, as well as flexible and adaptive programming.

Find out …

Over the past couple of years, staff from across Itad have been doing 60 Second Interviews.

Not only do they give you a snapshot of our monitoring and evaluation expertise, but also of our project management, human resources and business development functions, the wide variety of backgrounds our staff have (from commercial law to furniture retail!) and the diverse …

The Centre for Development Impact has recently published a series of Practice Papers:

Practice Paper 18 – Reflections from a Realist Evaluation in Progress: Scaling Ladders and Stitching Theory

This CDI Practice Paper, written by Melanie Punton, Isabel Vogel, and Rob Lloyd, reflects on the first year of a three-year realist impact evaluation, examining the …

We have started work on many exciting new projects this year.

Our PSD theme is leading an impact assessment of the Dutch Good Growth Fund, as well as a retrospective impact assessment of the Financial Sector Deepening Trust of Tanzania. In a major DFID funded programme, the Business Environment Reform Facility, Itad is responsible for the cross-DFID lesson …

This has been a formative year for the Centre for Development Impact (CDI). We have spent much of the year reflecting on the major global challenges of our time (inequality, insecurity, sustainability) and what this implies for the way we evaluate impact on the poorest and most marginalised.

We have sought to move beyond narrow methodological debates …

Working with Wilton Park, the Centre for Development Impact (CDI) recently co-hosted a major international conference on ‘New Frontiers for Evaluation’ – the IDEAS Global Assembly, happening in Bangkok this week, will also build on these discussions.

Over several decades now, we have seen dramatic shifts in the way in which middle income and low income …

Itad’s ownership and management has undergone another significant evolution, in line with our long term strategy for the company’s development.

In early October 2015 we implemented a change in Itad’s ownership and at the same time welcomed a private equity investment from Foresight Group. This follows a Management Buyout in 2011 when our founding directors, …

It is with enormous pleasure that I am able to announce Itad’s affiliation to the global HeforShe campaign, which seeks to mobilise 1 million men and boys around the work to accelerate the achievement of gender equality.

In the words of UNWomen, the creator of the HeforShe campaign, the “HeForShe journey begins with the affirmation that gender equality is not …

Itad, providing monitoring and evaluation expertise, is a core partner in a consortium led by IMC Worldwide delivering multi-year, multi-country support to the monitoring, evaluation and learning (MEL) processes for the International Climate Fund (ICF).

The ICF receives contributions from the Department for International Development (DFID), the Department of …

The Making All Voices Count Initiative, in collaboration with WaterAid, IRC and Itad are running a webinar on Tuesday, 8th September, 12:00 GMT.

This webinar brings together the results from two recent studies: a study from the Making All Voices Count Initiative in collaboration with WaterAid, IRC, and Itad that examined the factors of success in rendering water …

Itad consultant Jessica Rust-Smith has recently had her work published in the book Conservation Agriculture in Subsistence Farming: Case Studies from South Asia and Beyond (edited by C Chan and J Fantle-Lepczyk, CABI, 2015)

Conservation agriculture (CA) is promoted in developing countries as a means for smallholder farmers to increase crop yields and mitigate the …

The e-Pact Consortium is finding out through Verifying and Evaluating DFID’s WASH Results Programme. But they are not waiting until 2018, when the programme ends, to pass on what they have discovered to other suppliers, donors and verifiers about how this relatively new funding mechanism works in the WASH sector.

Throughout the programme they will be writing about …

SPARC announce their formal membership to the OECD’s Effective Institutions Platform (EIP) www.effectiveinstitutions.org.

SPARC was granted membership on July 24, 2015 based on their track record in working to strengthen the effectiveness of public sector institutions for better service delivery; objectives which the EIP shares. SPARC will collaborate with EIP …

Join LINEA for a free webinar on Tuesday 28 July 2015 at 2pm BST. Hosted by the Learning Initiative on Norms, Exploitation and Abuse (LINEA), this collaborative webinar will be presented by Julian Barr (Itad), Emeka Nwankwo (V4C), and Dr Nancy Glass.

Using case studies from programmes in Nigeria, South Sudan and Somalia, these presenters will discuss how …

We are pleased to announce that Lewis Husain has become one of our key associates.

Lewis started collaborating with Itad nearly 3 years ago, when he worked with us on supporting our work on developing an M&E framework for NICE international in China and India. He is now working on a number of evaluations with us, including the evaluation of China-UK Global …

To eradicate extreme poverty (or ‘leave no-one behind’) requires a practical mix of political and operational tools and resources to realise this ambitious goal.

Itad’s Vishal Gadhavi will be talking at ODI on his recent contribution to the IDS Bulletin ‘Graduating from Social Protection’ on the 10th July at 1pm.

His presentation will cover an example of …

Itad is pleased to announce we have appointed two new associate directors, Rob Lloyd and Robbie Gregorowski. Both Rob and Robbie have been promoted from within the company. They will work closely with the management team across a variety of cross organisational initiatives – covering both internal and external facing aspects of itads’ work.

Rob joined Itad in …

As part of Active Sussex’s Workplace Challenge, Itad’s volleyball team has now taken part in 2 volleyball tournaments during April and May 2015.

Although we entered the April tournament with very little practice, we won and lost an equal amount of matches in the first round and squeezed through to the second by a matter of points! Having just made it through, …

We are pleased to announce that Larry Gelmon has become one of our key associates.

Larry started collaborating with Itad nearly 3 years ago, when he lead the team supporting the development of a business case for a new DFID regional HIV prevention programme in Southern Africa. He is now working on a number of evaluations with us, including the multiyear …

Itad has just completed an evaluation of Denmark’s humanitarian strategy, covering the period 2010-2015. The synthesis report together with case study reports for South Sudan, Afghanistan and the Syria crisis are now available on the Itad website.

We are pleased to announce that Nick Chapman has become one of our key associates.

Nick has had a long association with Itad, being one of the first external consultants we contracted after setting up in 1984. He has worked with us on many projects over the last 30 years, including our Retrospective Review of Rockefeller Foundation’s Rice Biotechnology Program …

What’s the latest thinking on capacity development? What roles (if any) can social media and new digital tools play? Our work on these issues has led us to propose a new conceptual framework: Capacity Development 2 or CD2.

This framework isn’t about replacing ‘traditional’ capacity development activities with digital tools and tweeting about it. …

Itad, as part of a consortium led by Hera, was contracted by IHP+ to deliver the 2014 round of monitoring on effective development cooperation.

24 countries and 37 development partners participated, and for the first time, monitoring and reporting was led by Ministries of Health and coordinated nationally – with the aim of strengthening the accountability for …

Itad’s mid-term review of the Ethiopian Civil Society Support Programme is now available on our website.

Taking place between May and August 2014, the review was designed to provide an independent assessment of the performance and progress of the programme to date.

Itad’s Tim Ruffer will be contributing to a BEAM Exchange webinar on how market systems programmes are attributing change to their interventions. The webinar will take place on 12 March 2015, 10-11am GMT.

Tim will be giving a conceptual introduction to a 3-step framework  to measuring and attributing change in market systems. He will be joined by consultants …

The annual meeting of grant holders and service providers of DFID’s Forest Governance, Markets and Climate (FGMC) has just taken place. Hosted by CIDT, at the Telford Campus of University of Wolverhampton, and facilitated by CIDT and Itad with Triple Line, the three day session (5-7th January) started the year on a positive note.

Some 70 people gathered from a …

2014 has been a very successful year for Itad across our thematic areas of technical work, we are celebrating our 30 years as a company, and we are in the midst of infrastructure upgrades that will improve our office space.

We continue our success with DFID’s Global Evaluation Framework Agreement (GEFA), and as co-lead on the e-Pact consortia – we have been …

Itad’s Rob Lloyd and Espen Villanger reflect on the role of Norad’s Evaluation Department in explaining the lack of results documentation in Norway’s aid assessments in the Journal of Development Effectiveness.

To read the article, please visit the journal’s website, here.

To read about the original project, visit our project page, for the original …

The new IDS Bulletin Rethinking Impact Evaluation for Development is the first of two bulletins which build on the event Impact, Innovation and Learning: Towards a Research and Practice Agenda for the Future, at which the Centre for Development Impact was launched in March 2013.

Issuing a ‘rallying cry’ for impact evaluation to rise to the challenges of a …

Itad, in partnership with Chr. Michelsen Institute (CMI), conducted an evaluation of the Norwegian Training for Peace in Africa (TfP) Programme.

The main focus was an impact assessment of the programme’s training component, with a focus on the training of police. The team comprised Elling Tjonneland (TL), Chris Albertyn and Torunn Wimpelmann from CMI and Anna …

Itad has been contracted by Norad to conduct the first ever evaluation of the Temporary International Presence in Hebron (TIPH). We have composed a team of two international consultants, one Palestinian and one Israeli, to conduct this evaluation of the relevance, effectiveness, efficiency, impact, sustainability, risk management and coherence of the TIPH.

For …

This October, two teams from Itad will be braving the Oxfam Emergency Challenge. The challenge is designed to simulate disaster situations similar to those Oxfam responds to worldwide and our teams will work through challenges that test both fitness and resilience. Strategic, physical and mental challenges including running, cycling, map reading and puzzles, all …