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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.
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...
Video: Climate crisis and conflict: cross-sector working for sustainable solutions
Tom Gillhespy and Dr. Haseeb Md. Irfanullah explore the need to mainstream climate and ecological concerns into our conflict-related work, and...
Anti-corruption in Nigeria: Lessons and recommendations for future programming
Lessons from the Anti-Corruption in Nigeria (ACORN) project and recommendations for future programming
The value of stability trackers in fragile settings: Lessons from working with the Conflict, Stability and Security Fund
Uncertainty is a common characteristic when operating in fragile settings, and economic and health shocks brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic...
Integrated delivery: We know it is needed, so how do we get it?
Tom Gillhespy and Georgina Sinclair reflect on integrated delivery, why it is important, what is holding it back and what good integrated...
World Ocean Day: The role of science and MEL in tackling marine litter
Understanding that our relationship with nature is a cycle is the first step towards building back better. For World Ocean Day, we spoke to Peter...
Maximising the value of third party monitoring
COVID-19 has brought greater challenges and complexity to delivering aid, particularly in insecure settings. An external perspective through...
Insights from a geo-spatial study of mine action in Afghanistan
Itad’s George Bowles and Tom Gillhespy will present at a Mine Action Support Group (MASG)’s virtual meeting on 28 May. The MASG, which meets...
Itad at the International Realist Conference 2021
Itad joined the International Realist Conference 2021 in February. We presented our work on the HMG Climate Change Compass evaluation, as well as...
Making the most of 0.5% – what now for the UK aid budget?
The UK government has announced that the 2015 commitment to spend 0.7% of Gross National Income (GNI) on foreign aid will be reduced in 2021 to...
The UK’s approach to tackling modern-day slavery in Nigeria: Five missed opportunities
I recently read the ICAI review of the UK’s approach to tackling modern-day slavery through the aid programme and it led me to reflect. The...
Tackling human trafficking: Lessons from the Stamping out Slavery in Nigeria project
Modern-day slavery is still a prevalent practice in Nigeria, with Edo State at the centre of human trafficking. The UK FCDO-funded Stamping out...
AVANTI in 2020: Adapting to the new normal
In 2020, AVANTI had to adapt to the new normal like many other projects that previously relied on international travel. The team found ways to...
How has COVID-19 affected data quality in the agriculture sector? Highlights on a recent e-Panel
An e-Panel, co-hosted by AVANTI and EvalForward, set out to explore this question. Our panellists, Armand Zoa, Joas Tugizimana and Tim Njagi,...
Mobilising private finance into low-carbon markets: Insights from the UK’s International Climate Finance
To tackle the global climate crisis and achieve a worldwide low-carbon transition, it will be essential to stimulate the growth of...
Balancing the UK’s development objectives and national interest: Three lessons for the FCO/DFID merger
There has been wide-ranging debate over the last weeks about the UK Government announcement to merge DFID and FCO into the new FCDO. One concern...
Measuring political access and influence in fragile and conflict-affected settings
Understanding political context and the influence of political interests is critical in delivering national and development objectives. This is...
Evaluation of the UK Caribbean Infrastructure Fund
Investment in infrastructure across the Caribbean has supported growth, trade and created new jobs. Ongoing investment is needed to support...
Evaluation of the Global Research on Antimicrobial Resistance project
Despite the long-standing recognition of AMR (Antimicrobial Resistance) as a major public health problem, lack of information about its...
Mid-Term evaluation of the Alliance for Green Revolution in Africa’s 2017-2021 strategy
The African continent faces myriad challenges in achieving food and nutrition security for its growing population. These challenges are rooted in...
MEL unit for CSSF Middle East
The Conflict Stability and Security Fund (CSSF) in the Middle East operates in one of the most complicated conflict-affected regions of the...
Evaluation of the 2016 – 2021 Unified Budget, Results and Accountability Framework (UBRAF)
The establishment of the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) in 1996 represented a key step in a broader transformation of...
UK Public Health Rapid Support Team Performance Evaluation and Independent Monitoring Agent
Itad has been contracted to conduct a performance evaluation and ongoing independent monitoring to support programme delivery for the UK Public...
