Capacity building in evidence use
Strengthening teams to design, commission, interpret and use evidence in real world decision-making.
We bring lessons from evaluating training and capacity building efforts into our own approach. We work on the principle that accompanying change – rather than imposing change – delivers sustainable results. We have worked with clients of all shapes and sizes to support their training and capacity building needs in line with their organisational culture.
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How can Foundations work with governments for agricultural change?
We are generating lessons on the best ways to work with governments as we evaluate how successful the Tony Blair Institute and...
Itad’s COVAX evaluation provides rich insights for future pandemic responses
A newly-published Itad evaluation of the COVAX Facility and Advanced Market Commitment provides a balanced critique and...
Improving access to contraception for adolescent girls
An Itad learning-focused process evaluation helped Population Services International (PSI) improve adolescent girls’...
Strengthening coherent global action to tackle the scourge of landmines
Our work has helped to strengthen the way the global mine action sector works collectively to reduce and eliminate the...
Evaluating the effectiveness of Covid-19 vaccine delivery by the COVAX initiative
We evaluated the challenges, successes and lessons from the COVAX initiative to support Gavi to strengthen the ongoing...
Influencing humanitarian policy to protect refugee rights
An Itad evaluation of the global response to protect refugee rights during Covid-19 is influencing UN humanitarian agencies...
Providing performance recommendations to the World Food Programme
We are synthesising evaluations of the WFP from between 2018 and 2021 to provide evidence and recommendations on performance...
Time to throw out your indicators and embrace AI for systems change?
To embrace a systems perspective we must evolve monitoring, evaluation and learning (MEL) practice. But it’s a messy...
How Finagle’s law can inform more impactful evaluations
Generating useful information for decision-makers is especially hard when conducting complex evaluations. But an article by...
Developing LateriteAI – technology to automate tedious research tasks
Dimitri Stoelinga, co-founder of Laterite, shares their journey towards creating LateriteAI, a platform that harnesses the...
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...
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...
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...
Developing a learning system rooted in relational wellbeing
Marcus Jenal, Strategic Learning & Evaluation Lead at Fondation Botnar, invites feedback on his organisation’s ambitious...
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...
Embracing equity when engaging men and boys for gender equality
When working with men and boys to address masculinities, switching from an equality lens to an equity lens can bring...
