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Reflections from the 2019 UK Evaluation Society Conference
In our UKES conference blog this year, Talar Bogosyan explores how evaluation can keep pace in our digital world, Jessica Rust-Smith reflects on...
Country Operation Evaluations: Angola, Afghanistan, Iraq and Egypt
UNHCR’s country operations aim to work effectively to pursue protection and solutions, to support the inclusion of internally displaced,...
A brief introduction: Contribution Analysis and Bayesian Confidence Updating
This paper provides an introduction to contribution analysis and outlines how it establishes whether or not an intervention or investment...
Complex systems thinking in international development
Itad's Ed Hedley reflects on one of the main themes from the 2019 UK Evaluation Society conference, complex systems thinking and asks what an...
Evaluation of Gavi’s Gender Policy
This report presents the findings from the evaluation of Gavi’s 2013 Gender Policy. The evaluation was conducted by Itad in 2018-2019.
Inception Report: Study of CDC’s mobilisation of private investment
This Inception Report describes our proposed approach to the longitudinal evaluation of CDC’s ability to mobilise private investment.
Evaluation of the Coverage and Quality of the UNICEF Humanitarian Response in Complex Humanitarian Emergencies
The purpose of this evaluation is to generate, through robust and systematic analysis across a range of country contexts, practical solutions...
External Review of Enabling the Business of Agriculture
This document describes the findings of an independent review of the Enabling the Business of Agriculture (EBA) project. The review was...
Executive Summary: External Review of Enabling the Business of Agriculture
The ultimate goal of Enabling the Business of Agriculture (EBA) is to provide governments with clearly defined good practices that can inform...
Building resilience in the humanitarian-development nexus: The Community Flood Resilience Project, Kakuma, Kenya
This case study is for a broad audience of practitioners and decision-makers working in the resilience area. It explores how the layering of...
Itad at UKES 2019
We're looking forward to the UK Evaluation Society (UKES) Conference this week, which this year centres around the theme of diversity within the...
No time to wait: evaluating the fight against ‘Drugmageddon’
This week, the UK’s Chief Medical Officer, Sally Davies, called for an Extinction Rebellion-style campaign to raise awareness of antimicrobial...
Reflections on decentralised climate finance from CBA13
I recently witnessed the potential of a funding mechanism that allows indigenous people and local communities to determine how to protect their...
Is open access worth it? Maybe not yet, but we should still do it!
During the impact evaluation of the Millennium Villages project in northern Ghana, we opened up our datasets for wider scrutiny. On reflection, I...
Linking mine action to development: the need for generating evidence of longer-term change
With the annual UN International Mine Awareness Day on April 4, Jason Collodi and Tom Gillhespy from Itad’s Fragile and Conflict-Affected...
GPE 2020 country-level prospective evaluation – Nepal
The purpose of this prospective evaluation is to assess whether GPE’s inputs and influence in Nepal are orienting education sector planning,...
GPE 2020 country-level prospective evaluation – Nigeria
This is the first of two annual reports to be submitted during the three-year prospective evaluation of the Global Partnership for Education...
Why funders need to practice adaptive portfolio management to support systems change
Much like traditional investors, development funders often manage portfolios of investments. But what does it mean to manage a portfolio, rather...
First GPE 2020 country-level prospective evaluation reports published
The first set of annual country reports for our prospective evaluation of the Global Partnership for Education (GPE) have been published.
Portfolio evaluation of advocates working in the global health research and development space
Research and development for global health is a broad sphere of activities that addresses some of the most neglected areas of global public...
Podcast: Learning from evaluating HCD field work
Itad's Stefanie Wallach joined Tiffany Franke on the Adolescents Insights group podcast series (made for the HCD Exchange) to reflect on our...
60 seconds with…Fergal Turner
Our ‘60 Seconds with…’ blogs are designed to provide a quick run down of what our staff do here at Itad. Here is what Fergal had to say…
Technical Review of Learning Targets Approach for Highly Marginalised Girls
The Girls’ Education Challenge (GEC) was launched by the UK in 2012 as a 12-year commitment to reach the most marginalised girls in the world...
New lessons from Mastercard Foundation Savings Learning Lab partners
Partners from the Mastercard Foundation Savings Learning Lab have recently shared lessons from their work in financial inclusion and savings groups.
