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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Executive Summary: Impact Evaluation of the SADA Millennium Villages Project in Northern Ghana
The Millennium Villages Project (MVP) aims to demonstrate how the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) could be achieved...
Millennium Villages Project Briefing Paper No.5: What was the impact on health?
This Briefing Paper is the fifth in a series to communicate key points from the independent impact evaluation of the...
Impact Evaluation of the SADA Millennium Villages Project in Northern Ghana Annex A: Preliminary Statistical Analysis
The independent evaluation of the Millennium Village Project (MVP) in northern Ghana is based on quantitative and qualitative...
Impact Evaluation of the SADA Millennium Villages Project in Northern Ghana Annex B: Participatory Rural Appraisal
The Ghana Savannah Accelerated Development Authority (SADA) Millennium Villages Project (MVP) formally closed at the end of...
Millennium Villages Project Briefing Paper No.1: MVP and the MDGs: what did it achieve?
This Briefing Paper is the first in a series to communicate key points from the independent impact evaluation of the...
AVANTI launch
Join us Tuesday 11th September, when, with our partners Helvetas and the International Fund for Agricultural Development...
Summary: Routes to Resilience: Insights from BRACED final year
Building Resilience to Climate Extremes and Disasters (BRACED) is the biggest global effort to build resilience locally, in...
60 seconds with…Joseph Thompson
Our ‘60 Seconds with…’ blogs are designed to provide a quick run down of what our staff do here at Itad. Here is what...
Routes to Resilience: Insights from BRACED final year
After three years of implementation, this paper presents a synthesis of the Building Resilience and Adaptation to Climate...
Independent monitoring and verification of the Accelerating Sanitation, Water and Hygiene for All (ASWA II) Programme
Accelerating access to drinking water and household sanitation is key to achieving the sustainable development goals and DFID...
The Collaborative Urban Resilience Exchange: lessons on informal settlement data and partnership building
The Collaborative Urban Resilience Exchange took place in Cape Town, from 16–18th July 2018, as part of a collaboration...
The Second Phase of Providing Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning Support to the Global Resilience Partnership
Since 2016, Itad has supported the Global Resilience Partnership (GRP) as a learning partner to help ensure it reaches its...
Design for Health: the role of data and evidence
In this blog, Emma Mulhern, describes her initial impressions of Design for Health, a joint venture by both the Bill and...
Mixing, matching and modifying methods in realist evaluation: should we be purists or pragmatists?
This second blog from the Itad Realist Evaluation Learning Group asks: how far can realist evaluation be modified, watered...
Endline summary report: Impact Evaluation of the SADA Millennium Villages Project in Northern Ghana
This report presents the endline findings from an impact evaluation of the Millennium Villages Project (MVP) in northern...
Beyond a burden: what value does verification offer?
Police officers, auditors, teachers marking homework and giving out detentions – just some of the unfavourable analogies we...
