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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Country Operation Evaluations: Angola, Afghanistan, Iraq and Egypt
UNHCR’s country operations aim to work effectively to pursue protection and solutions, to support the inclusion of...
A brief introduction: Contribution Analysis and Bayesian Confidence Updating
This paper provides an introduction to contribution analysis and outlines how it establishes whether or not an intervention or...
Complex systems thinking in international development
Itad's Ed Hedley reflects on one of the main themes from the 2019 UK Evaluation Society conference, complex systems thinking...
Evaluation of Gavi’s Gender Policy
This report presents the findings from the evaluation of Gavi’s 2013 Gender Policy. The evaluation was conducted by Itad in...
Inception Report: Study of CDC’s mobilisation of private investment
This Inception Report describes our proposed approach to the longitudinal evaluation of CDC’s ability to mobilise private...
Executive Summary: External Review of Enabling the Business of Agriculture
The ultimate goal of Enabling the Business of Agriculture (EBA) is to provide governments with clearly defined good practices...
Evaluation of the Coverage and Quality of the UNICEF Humanitarian Response in Complex Humanitarian Emergencies
The purpose of this evaluation is to generate, through robust and systematic analysis across a range of country contexts,...
Itad at UKES 2019
We're looking forward to the UK Evaluation Society (UKES) Conference this week, which this year centres around the theme of...
External Review of Enabling the Business of Agriculture
This document describes the findings of an independent review of the Enabling the Business of Agriculture (EBA) project. The...
Building resilience in the humanitarian-development nexus: The Community Flood Resilience Project, Kakuma, Kenya
This case study is for a broad audience of practitioners and decision-makers working in the resilience area. It explores how...
No time to wait: evaluating the fight against ‘Drugmageddon’
This week, the UK’s Chief Medical Officer, Sally Davies, called for an Extinction Rebellion-style campaign to raise...
Reflections on decentralised climate finance from CBA13
I recently witnessed the potential of a funding mechanism that allows indigenous people and local communities to determine how...
Is open access worth it? Maybe not yet, but we should still do it!
During the impact evaluation of the Millennium Villages project in northern Ghana, we opened up our datasets for wider...
Linking mine action to development: the need for generating evidence of longer-term change
With the annual UN International Mine Awareness Day on April 4, Jason Collodi and Tom Gillhespy from Itad’s Fragile and...
GPE 2020 country-level prospective evaluation – Nigeria
This is the first of two annual reports to be submitted during the three-year prospective evaluation of the Global Partnership...
GPE 2020 country-level prospective evaluation – Nepal
The purpose of this prospective evaluation is to assess whether GPE’s inputs and influence in Nepal are orienting education...
