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Three years into the pandemic, what have we learned?
Today sees the launch of the first-ever and largest evaluation of humanitarian response to a pandemic, with best practices and lessons to step-up...
Three ways global evaluation organisations can help to localise MEL
Localising and decolonising the practice of monitoring, evaluation and learning (MEL) is an imperative of our era. It requires a step change for...
Embedding systems thinking in daily learning
Methodological innovation offers new ways to understand the complexity of the systems in which we operate. So, when global foundation Luminate...
Developing a learning system rooted in relational wellbeing
Marcus Jenal, Strategic Learning & Evaluation Lead at Fondation Botnar, invites feedback on his organisation’s ambitious attempt to develop a...
Harnessing the potential of natural language processing for MEL
Working in partnership, Itad and CASM Technology have been exploring the power of natural language processing (NLP) techniques to generate...
Supporting the Mastercard Foundation to understand and improve impact
In collaboration with national partners, we are delivering targeted monitoring, evaluation and learning activities, capacity building for young...
Locally led monitoring and evaluation – what role can we play at Itad?
Fostering equitable and localised modes of working is hugely important to Itad, but is not without its challenges. In this blog, we outline some...
Exploring new technical innovations in MEL for systemic change
Join us for a cross-sector discussion on how we can best undertake strategic learning and evaluation using a systems perspective, and whether and...
Localising monitoring, evaluation and learning: a 360 perspective
Good monitoring, evaluation and learning (MEL) practice should prioritise culturally relevant approaches, generate useful insights and support...
Addressing this decade’s greatest evaluation challenges
The interlinked crises facing the world today require a bold agenda for change in the monitoring, evaluation and learning (MEL) ecosystem. Join...
You can’t achieve system change without investing in advocacy
Drawing from more than 30 Itad evaluations focused on advocacy, we outline the five big lessons we’ve learnt and that we think any funder of...
Supporting social enterprises to understand their impact
Social enterprises are once again on the agenda at this year’s World Economic Forum, this time with an emphasis on scaling and partnerships for...
Peace through evaluation, learning and adaptation (PELA II)
Enhancing USAID’s effectiveness in preventing and countering violent extremism, peacebuilding, and strengthening democracy, human rights, and...
Building foundations for development impact in large scale research funds
Assessing how the Global Challenges Research Fund created the environment for impact in its early years and achieve sustainable development...
Mainstreaming climate concerns into conflict-related evaluation work
Our work with clients is highlighting the value of applying a climate lens to conflict-related development programming.
Supporting climate justice through collaborative learning
Our work with Porticus is highlighting the value of collaborative learning to shape climate justice initiatives more effectively.
Building women and girls’ resilience to climate change
Lessons from our work with partners on integrating sexual and reproductive health rights with climate change adaptation.
How a ‘landscape approach’ can help mobilise climate finance towards vulnerable groups and ecosystems
Our evaluation of the Dutch Fund for Climate and Development found that their framework offers an innovative solution to the challenge of...
Lessons for evaluating complex and adaptive programmes
Drawing on our experiences evaluating a six-year girl-centred sexual health programme, the A360 evaluation team share our key learnings and tips...
Adolescents 360 Evaluation: Final Summative Report
This report presents the overall findings of the evaluation of the Adolescents 360 initiative (A360), which targeted adolescents in Ethiopia,...
Supporting adaptive learning to promote a climate positive, inclusive economy
Evaluating the effectiveness of the Laudes Foundation’s strategy and providing learning points for continuous improvement to address inequality...
Bayesian Confidence Updating: 3 lessons from applying this technique
Bayesian Confidence Updating is an innovative approach to robustly establishing the strength of causal links in theory-based evaluation. This...
Independent Evaluation of the Biodiverse Landscapes Fund
We are assessing the impact of the biodiverse landscapes fund and providing ongoing support to the implementers and Defra to ensure evidence is...
Learning from Covid-19: insights on the effective protection of refugee rights
Insights into more effective international, national and local responses to better protect refugee rights following lessons from Covid-19.
