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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Data collection post-pandemic: Lessons from a year without travel
Safe and ethical data collection overseas has been a challenge across the international development sector since the start of...
Dane Rogers: Highlights from 28 years at Itad
Dane Rogers, one of Itad’s non-executive directors and member of our Board, has stepped down from his role after 28 years...
How can evaluation work support greater vaccine equity for COVID-19?
“With just five per cent of the world’s population having received the COVID-19 vaccine, the disparities are clear,”...
Savings and climate resilience – A review of successes and challenges in current programming
Climate change is the most urgent challenge of our time, and the impacts disproportionately affect people living in poverty.
Itad wins UNICEF award for best cross-cutting evaluation of 2020
Itad’s evaluation of the coverage and quality of UNICEF’s humanitarian response in complex humanitarian emergencies has...
Webinar explores COVID-19 vaccine equity and the role of evaluation
We hosted a free webinar on 15 April 2021 to explore the role of evaluation in supporting vaccine equity for COVID-19. The...
What works in resilience measurement: Our learning in practice
We are pleased to launch our Practice Papers – a new series of publications where we put our learning into practice. Our...
Evaluation of UNHCR’s Asylum Capacity Development
Global mass displacement has been placing increasingly heavy pressure on the capacity of national asylum systems to process...
Improving resilience measurement: Learning to adapt – Itad Practice Paper 01
Strengthening resilience is critical if communities are to respond positively to extreme events, climate change and disasters....
Responding to the climate emergency: How we plan to play our part in greening international development
While the world has been consumed by COVID-19 over the past year, the climate emergency remains the crisis of our times.
Lessons for applying contribution analysis to advocacy impact evaluation
Are you trying to evaluate the impact of your advocacy work? Are time and resource constraints making it difficult? Our...
Tools and Tips for Implementing Contribution Analysis
A learning brief published with the Center for Evaluation Innovation sharing lessons on applying contribution analysis to...
International Women’s Day and gender mainstreaming
International Women’s Day (IWD), as always, provides an excellent reference point for stocktaking global progress on gender...
World Food Programme publishes Bangladesh Country Strategic Plan evaluation
The World Food Programme (WFP) has published the Final Report from Itad’s Bangladesh Country Strategic Plan (2016-2020)...
Why human-centered design (HCD) doesn’t always work for international development
A critical look at the use of HCD and what types of problems and organizations are best and worst suited for this method
Mobilising private finance into climate change: Webinar shares evaluation lessons
We were delighted to co-host a webinar on 17 March sharing lessons from the portfolio-level evaluation of the UK’s...
