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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Itad’s Realist Evaluation week – Three Lessons from the BRACED session
Dave Wilson reflects on three key lessons the BRACED evaluation team learnt with Gill Westhorp during Itad's Realist...
How can capacity development promote evidence-informed policy making? – BCURE Evaluation Briefing No. 1
This briefing note presents three lessons emerging from a literature review by the BCURE evaluation team on ‘how can...
Evaluation of Adolescents 360
Adolescents 360 (A360) was a four-year initiative (2016 – 2020) to increase adolescent girls’ access to and demand for...
Medicines Transparency Alliance (MeTA), Policy Briefing 1
This policy briefing of Itad's evaluation of the Medicines Transparency Allicance gives an overview of the methods, findings,...
Medicines Transparency Alliance (MeTA) Evaluation, Final Report
The purpose of this evaluation was to assess MeTA’s underlying rationale to provide lessons for future programming of...
The Medicines Transparency Alliance (MeTA) evaluation: Another piece of evidence supporting the value of multi-stakeholder approaches
Itad, in cooperation with Pamoja, recently completed an evaluation of the Medicines Transparency Alliance (MeTA). MeTA was...
Itad spends week with Realist Evaluation expert Gill Westhorp
This April, Itad spent an informative and enlightening week with Realist Evaluation (RE) expert, Dr Gill Westhorp.
Itad at the 2016 UKES Conference
Itad will have lots of representatives at this weeks' UK Evaluation Society (UKES) Conference, speaking on a range of subjects.
How MEL systems provide answers for development in a warming world
This Earth Day, Itad's Sarah Standley, Robbie Gregorowski, and Dave Wilson reflect on how MEL systems provide answers for...
BCURE Literature Review – How can capacity development promote evidence-informed policy making?
This literature review examines how and why different approaches to capacity building for evidence-informed policy making...
BCURE Literature Review Section 1 – What is ‘building capacity for evidence-informed policy making’?
This section of the BCURE Literature Review discusses the theories and assumptions underpinning the BCURE programme.
BCURE Literature Review Section 2 – What factors promote and constrain evidence-informed policy making?
There is a large amount of evidence on the barriers to and facilitators of EIPM, synthesised in a number of secondary reviews....
BCURE Literature Review Section 3 – What is the evidence on how to build capacity for evidence-informed policy making?
This section of the BCURE Literature Review examines primary evidence from studies of interventions aiming to build capacity...
External Review of the Enabling the Business of Agriculture (EBA)
The Enabling the Business of Agriculture (EBA) is a World Bank Group study collecting unique data on the regulations that...
60 Seconds with…Ed Hedley
Our ‘60 Seconds with…’ blogs are designed to provide a quick run down of what our staff do here at Itad. Here is what Ed...
A Value for Money (VfM) Analysis for RAP 3
The Value for Money (VFM) analysis of RAP is one-off review assessing what is driving costs and to ensure that the programme...
