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Exploring the ‘Power of Story’ at the American Evaluation Association Conference 2023
Join us at the American Evaluation Association Conference from 9-14 October! We'll be sharing ideas, skills and reflecting on the power of story...
Itad at American Evaluation 2017
Itad’s Rob Lloyd and Andrew McConnochie attended the American Evaluation Association’s annual conference, where they joined discussions...
Accountability and protection: two sides of the same coin – Lessons from DFID’s accountability programming in the Philippines
Accountability and protection: two sides of the same coin Lessons from DFID’s accountability programming in the Philippines. This blog is...
Publication on Social Accountability and Corruption
Last month, I placed a publication on social accountability mechanisms’ potential to reduce corruption in public administration in the journal...
Issues and challenges of assessing the benefits of capacity development – experiences from the M4D programme in northern Nigeria
It is often argued that good governance is possible only when governing institutions perform to certain standards and that failures are due to...
Applying a power lens to improve accountability and action for women’s rights
Ahead of International Women’s Day 2025, we share insights on the linkages between power and accountability, and effective strategies to...
Engaging adolescent girls in governance processes: lessons from Northern Nigeria
Itad conducted an independent impact evaluation of the DFID-funded Mobilising for Development (M4D) programme, which aimed to enable adolescent...
Evaluating complex change across projects and contexts: Methodological lessons from a macro evaluation of DFID’s social accountability portfolio
Itad's Florian Schatz details methodological lessons from a macro evaluation of DFID's social accountability portfolio and the challenges of...
How accountability trumps learning: three lessons from evaluating the Tilitonse programme
Mel Punton and Julia Hamaus discuss their presentation at the UK Evaluation Society conference this year
Empowerment and Accountability Annual Technical Report 2016: What Works for Social Accountability
The Department for International Development (DFID) commissioned Itad, through the e-Pact consortium, to undertake a macro evaluation of its...
What works for social accountability? Findings from DFID’s macro evaluation
I wrote my first blog on DFID’s macro evaluation of its empowerment and accountability project portfolio way back in 2015, at the end of the...
What has DFID funded in the area of Empowerment and Accountability and Gender equality?
The answer is not as straightforward as you may think. We had to figure it out whilst working on two evaluations for DFID, one of its gender...
Stories of Bank Linkages
What are we learning from savings group members on how bank linkages are working for them? Insights from the MasterCard Foundation Savings...
Measuring the impacts of capacity development: four things to consider
In my first blog on our experiences from the DFID-funded Mobilising for Development (M4D) programme, I looked at the challenges faced in...
The power of parsimony: why less might be more when it comes to grantee reporting
Itad's Laura Hopkins and Rob Lloyd identify three key ways in which funders and grantees can work together to reorient the reporting process to...
How much value do Value Added Models provide for the quality of schools?
What value might Value Added Models might bring to developing an accountability measure for school quality in the development sector?
How to measure the progress and impact of champion building strategies
Our final champion building blog looks at how to measure the progress and impact of champions against your advocacy goals.
GPSA webinar: What works for social accountability? Findings from DFID’s Macro Evaluation
What works for social accountability? Join Itad's Claire Hughes, with Jeremy Holland & Florian Schatz as they discuss findings from DFID’s...
Empowerment and Accountability Annual Technical Report 2016 – Annexes Volume 2: Case Studies
The Department for International Development (DFID) commissioned Itad, through the e-Pact consortium, to undertake a macro evaluation of its...
Empowerment and Accountability Annual Technical Report 2016 – Annexes Volume 1: Framing documents
The Department for International Development (DFID) commissioned Itad, through the e-Pact consortium, to undertake a macro evaluation of its...
State Accountability and Voice Initiative (SAVI)
Itad is a core consortium partner in State Accountability and Voice Initiative, providing staff, consultants and advice across the programme.
Independent Evaluation of Accountability in Tanzania (AcT) Programme – Final Report
The Accountability in Tanzania programme started in 2009, ‘whose purpose is to increase the responsiveness and accountability of Government in...
Reflections on a Seminar on Intervention Logic and Contribution Analysis at the EC
Itad's Florian Schatz reflects on a seminar he attended on intervention logic & contribution analysis, organised by EuropeAid & delivered by...
‘Tis the season to be jolly – Symposium Season
Itad's Julian Barr reflects on his experiences from four different evaluation symposia
