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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Northern Ghana Millennium Villages Impact Evaluation: Preliminary Report on the Fourth Round of Data
The Millennium Villages Project (MVP) has been designed to demonstrate how an integrated approach to community-led development...
How accountability trumps learning: three lessons from evaluating the Tilitonse programme
Mel Punton and Julia Hamaus discuss their presentation at the UK Evaluation Society conference this year
Final report: Impact evaluation of the DFID Programme to accelerate improved nutrition for the extreme poor in Bangladesh
Itad, as part of a consortium with the Institute of Development Studies, the International Food Policy Research Institute,...
RAP Beneficiaries’ Feedback Report 2017
To date, there have been several studies conducted by the independent Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning (MEL) component of...
The road to impact: how do we ensure that evidence is both useful and used?
How do we use evidence to influence? How can we broker a dialogue with new audiences and create spaces where we can learn from...
The irony of evaluation – thoughts from the annual UKES conference
My initial reaction to my first UKES conference was that it all seemed slightly ironic that a group of dedicated evaluation...
Pushing the boundaries: considering new ways of utilising evaluations
Itad's Bara Sladkova reflects on this year's UKES Conference, which explored the current ways of utilising evaluations.
Itad’s 4 top takeaways from the SEEP Women’s Economic Empowerment Forum
Mollie Liesner blogs on her top 4 takeaways from the SEEP Women's Economic Empowerment Forum in Bangkok.
Increasing the use of evaluation results: three tensions to navigate
As pressure to demonstrate Value for Money and results in international development increases in the current political...
60 seconds with…Richard Burge
Our ‘60 Seconds with…’ blogs are designed to provide a quick run down of what our staff do here at Itad. Here is what...
Evaluation of the UNICEF PMTCT/Paediatric HIV Care and Treatment Programme
UNICEF commissioned Itad to conduct an evaluation of the prevention of mother-to-child transmission of HIV (PMTCT) and...
Too complex to measure? Exploring the dynamic processes of resilience and recovery
Measuring resilience helps to build crucial evidence about how and why resilience is being strengthened, for whom, and in...
Evaluations – are they of any use? Reflections before and after the UKES conference
I'm looking forward to attending the UK Evaluation Society’s annual conference this year. Its focus on the usefulness of...
Itad at the 2017 UK Evaluation Society conference
Several staff represented Itad at this years’ UKES conference on ‘demonstrating and improving the usefulness of evaluation’.
Design of the Democratic Governance Facility
Itad’s Richard Burge led an eight-person team to design a five-year multi-donor governance programme in Uganda. Working...
Six things that help grant-makers learn and adapt
There’s an emerging body of literature identifying key strategies that can both improve learning and enable adaptive...
