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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Adolescents 360 Evaluation: What do service providers think about contraceptive service provision to 15–19 year old girls in Nigeria?
What are service providers’ perspectives of contraceptive service provision to adolescent girls in Nigeria? Using a...
Monitoring and evaluation of the Sustainable Urban Economic Development (SUED) programme
Itad has been appointed to deliver the monitoring, evaluation and learning component of SUED to support programme learning and...
How should donors manage adaptively? Market Systems Development as a case study.
Itad has recently completed a strategic evaluation for Sida to help them work through how they can best manage programmes that...
Recommendations…to co-create and or not to co-create?
As part of our efforts to make our work more useful for donors, implementing organisations and, ultimately, the people we’re...
Learning how to create a culture of learning
When we evaluated how the Norwegian Aid Administration practised Results-Based Management (RBM) earlier this year, one of our...
The role of Road Maintenance Groups in the Local Roads Network sector in rural Nepal
This policy brief explores the role of Road Maintenance Groups (RMGs) that a number of donor programmes fund in Nepal to...
Technical Assessment of Completed RAP roads (Independent Verification Round 2)
The objective of the Rural Access Programme 3 (RAP) is to reduce poverty in western Nepal. The programme aims to deliver...
Evaluation of the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development Data (GPSDD)
Itad has been commissioned to design and conduct an evaluation of the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development Data (GPSDD).
Tackling the humanitarian and development impact of landmines
Supporting the UK Global Mine Action programme to take an evidence-based approach to addressing the impact of explosive...
MEL Partner for CSSF Eastern Africa (2015-2021)
The Conflict, Stability and Security Fund (CSSF) supports the UK Government’s work in addressing conflict and fragility...
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...
Evaluation of the Gavi Alliance’s Gender Policy (2014-2018)
The Millennium Development Goal (MDG) 4, aimed to reduce by two-thirds, between 1990 and 2015, the global under-five mortality...
What else does the MVP evaluation tell us?
In this blog, we dig deeper into the findings to explore the impact of the Millennium Villages Project (MVP) in Northern Ghana...
Tracking and measuring resilience in large programmes: lessons from BRACED
This paper shares insights on designing and implementing monitoring, evaluation and learning systems as well as generating...
GPE 2020 country-level prospective evaluation – Malawi
This is the first of two annual reports to be submitted during the three-year prospective evaluation (PE) of the Global...
GPE 2020 country-level prospective evaluation – Zimbabwe
This is the first of two annual reports to be submitted during the three-year prospective evaluation of GPE in Zimbabwe –...