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 capacity building improve how policy makers use evidence?
Itad has just finished a three-year realist evaluation of the Building Capacity to Use Research Evidence (BCURE) programme –...
Final Evaluation of the Building Capacity to Use Research Evidence (BCURE) Programme
This report presents summative findings from the independent realist evaluation of the Building Capacity to Use Research...
Executive Summary: Final Evaluation of the Building Capacity to Use Research Evidence (BCURE) Programme
This is the Executive Summary of the final report of the evaluation of the Building Capacity to Use Research Evidence...
Global Fund Advocacy Portfolio MLE capacity support
Monitoring, evaluation and learning can feel cumbersome to anyone – but especially to advocacy organisations who...
Understanding the impact of Co-op funded WASH projects in Southern Malawi
What changes have resulted from the Co-op’s investment in water projects in Malawi? This was the central question for our...
Evaluation of an Elizabeth Glaser Paediatric AIDS Foundation Programme to Accelerate POC/PITC Testing
HIV testing and counselling (HTC) is the foundation and gateway for HIV treatment and care. Enormous progress has been made...
The interactions between women’s economic empowerment and ending violence against women – Insights from the Pacific Women project
"I am just a woman, I am just a mother, I am just a wife…what can I do to seek justice?" - anonymous woman in Papua New...
60 seconds with…Ben Harris
Our ‘60 Seconds with…’ blogs are designed to provide a quick run down of what our staff do here at Itad. Here is what...
Meta-Evaluation of Global Affairs Canada’s Decentralized Evaluations
This report presents a review of decentralized evaluations over the period 2009–14. During this period, decentralized...
‘Tis the season to be jolly – Symposium Season
Itad's Julian Barr reflects on his experiences from four different evaluation symposia
Global Community Engagement and Resilience Fund – Support to Strategy Implementation Plan
The Global Community Engagement and Resilience Fund (GCERF) is a multi-stakeholder global fund that works with local partners...
What has the evaluation team discovered so far about the Ideas to Impact prizes?
In this blog post, Ideas to Impact's evaluators share their findings from the assessment of the first round of prizes and...
Stories of Bank Linkages
What are we learning from savings group members on how bank linkages are working for them? Insights from the MasterCard...
Are leadership and accountability systems the key to delivering increased gender equality in our work?
Itad are about to do a stock take of where we’ve got to in increasing attention to gender issues in our monitoring,...
Routes to resilience: Insights from BRACED year 2
BRACED projects cover a wide range of issues, from securing, servicing and promoting trans-border livestock mobility across...
Routes to resilience: insights from BRACED year 2
Two years into implementation of the Building Resilience and Adaptation to Climate Extremes and Disasters (BRACED) programme,...
