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Getting to grips with the DFID Macro Evaluations
Itad's Claire Hughes reflects on getting to grips with the DFID Macro Evaluations.
Mapping National Health Accounts to Health Systems Strengthening Investments
The Global Fund’s primary goal is to eliminate the three diseases of HIV AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria. This blog, from LAMP Development,...
60 seconds with…Richard Burge
Our ‘60 Seconds with…’ blogs are designed to provide a quick run down of what our staff do here at Itad. Here is what Richard Burge had to...
Capacity development: how should we reframe it for the digital age?
What's the latest thinking on capacity development? Do social media and new digital tools play a key role? Read about Itad's CD2 conceptual...
Viewing Capacity Development through Four Dimensions of Change
In the previous blog I discussed how systems perspectives and complexity make us view capacity development differently. This time I want to look...
Unforeseen benefits of the Millennium Villages Project in Northern Ghana
In this blog, Dee Jupp shares her experiences living in the home of an extended family in one of the Millennium Villages in Northern Ghana on...
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...
A practical handbook for using prizes to help solve development challenges
While innovation inducement prizes have a historic pedigree, particularly in the early development of aviation, they have only recently been used...
Mobilising for Development Independent Evaluation Manager (IEM)
The M4D evaluation was funded by DFID, conducted by Itad (as the IEM), and ran from 1 November 2014 to 15 May 2018, beginning shortly after the...
Embracing complexity through methodological bricolage
Together with partners at the Centre for Development Impact, we are exploring how best to combine methods more rigorously and effectively. Do you...
Turning insights into impact with Value for Money assessments
In this blog, we share insights from our work with the UK Government’s Integrated Security Fund to explore how Value for Money (VfM)...
Evaluation of Enclude’s Variable Payment Obligation (VPO) Programme
Enclude is an advisory firm dedicated to building more sustainable small growth businesses (SGBs) and institutions by offering the integrated...
Evaluation of the Accelerate Trachoma Elimination Programme
The Accelerate Trachoma Elimination Programme is a five-year programme (mid-2018 to mid-2023) tackling primarily trachoma in 12 African...
Ethics in evaluation: Why it is important
Ethics and safeguarding are increasingly at the centre of evaluation practice. Following the 2019 publication of DFID’s ‘Ethical guidance for...
COVID-19 and sexual and reproductive health: Lessons from Zika and Ebola
The need to rapidly learn from previous experience and evidence on sexual and reproductive health in epidemics is now an urgent task. Members of...
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...
Mike Klein
Mike is the US Director for Itad, he brings 15 years of experience in leading assignments focused on the use of digital and data innovations for...
Building Capacity to Use Research Evidence (BCURE)
The effective use of research and evidence can play a crucial role in making policy more successful. However, while policymakers in low- and...
Final Evaluation of the Building Capacity to Use Research Evidence (BCURE) Programme
This report presents summative findings from the independent realist evaluation of the Building Capacity to Use Research Evidence (BCURE)...
Evaluating the collective response to Earthquakes in Türkiye and Syria
Itad is using a highly participatory approach to examine the Inter Agency Standing Committee’s response to the earthquakes that struck Syria...
Increasing the use of evaluation results: three tensions to navigate
As pressure to demonstrate Value for Money and results in international development increases in the current political climate, funding and...
‘Not Everybody is Online’…but All Voices Count
Itad's Aoife Murray blogs on the final Making All Voices Count Policy and Practice Dialogue.
Does adaptive programming work in fragile contexts, and why? The case of PERL in Nigeria
We’ve just published a case study based on a fascinating week in Nigeria last summer, exploring what ‘adaptive programming’ looks like in...
Impact, Innovation and Learning: Towards a Research and Practice Agenda for the Future
A number of us very recently attended the first conference of the joint IDS-Itad Centre for Development Impact (CDI) - Impact, Innovation and...
