Publications
We are at the heart of the debate about what works in international development, and how it should be assessed.
By sharing what we know we help to make the field more impactful, accountable and transparent, and its investments open to wider scrutiny. Our publications cover project reports and discussion papers, as well as our thinking on the latest debates.
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Resilience Measurement – MEL approaches in practice
This report offers a discussion of the key challenges and lessons in operationalizing resilience measurement-monitoring,...
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...
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...
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...
China’s increasing global health engagement
China has historically been a recipient of development assistance and funding, but this is changing with China’s economic...
Impact evaluations for market systems programmes
These BEAM Exchange guidelines set out the key steps and considerations for designing, planning and undertaking the evaluation...
BEAM Monitoring Guidance
The BEAM Monitoring Guidance aims to provide an introduction to current thinking and practice in monitoring for programmes...
The impact of programmes that use market systems approaches
Market systems approaches have now been used in a wide range of countries and contexts to promote growth in jobs and income,...
Rethinking systemic change – technical paper
This technical paper provides an in-depth review of the fields of evolutionary economics, new institutional economics and...
Rethinking systemic change – discussion paper
This discussion paper briefly presents the key messages from the literature review and seven principles drawing from this...
Applying multipliers to tourism in Kosovo
Most programmes face challenges in assessing and reporting the wider impact of their interventions. In the tourism sector,...
Improving national statistics in Kosovo
In Kosovo’s tourism sector the availability of accurate national statistics and capable national bodies charged with...
Evaluation of UNFPA support to the prevention, response to and elimination of gender-based violence, and harmful practices
The purpose of the evaluation is to assess the UNFPA support to the prevention, response to and elimination of GBV, and...
RAP Beneficiaries’ Feedback Report 2017
To date, there have been several studies conducted by the independent Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning (MEL) component of...
Evaluation of the UNICEF PMTCT/Paediatric HIV Care and Treatment Programme
UNICEF commissioned Itad to conduct an evaluation of the prevention of mother-to-child transmission of HIV (PMTCT) and...
Causality and attribution in market systems development
Attribution is the establishment of a causal link between (parts of) an observed change and a specific intervention....
