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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Direct Beneficiaries’ Feedback Report: Listening to the voices of RAP participants
This report presents the findings of a beneficiary feedback process conducted by the MEL. This process set out to capture...
Building Capacity to Use Research Evidence (BCURE) Evaluation: Stage 1 Synthesis Report
This report presents a synthesis of the results from Stage 1 of the evaluation of DFID’s Building Capacity to Use Research...
Itad’s Gender Snapshot Review: charting the way forward for mainstreaming gender within our work and operations
Since joining the HeforShe campaign, Itad has reviewed how gender currently features in our work through a ‘gender snapshot...
Independent Review of the Rural Access Programme’s Performance Management and Verification (M&E) System
The Performance Management and Verification (PMV) system is the Rural Access Programme’s (RAP) internal M&E system used to...
Moving targets and going in circles
Itad's Julian Barr reflects on SAVI, BRACED, and flexible and adaptive programming in international development.
DFID’s Action for Empowerment and Accountability (A4EA) research programme
Donors need quality evidence to say what works and what doesn’t to support the empowerment of citizens and hold governments...
Evaluating complex change across projects and contexts: Methodological lessons from a macro evaluation of DFID’s social accountability portfolio
Itad's Florian Schatz details methodological lessons from a macro evaluation of DFID's social accountability portfolio and the...
How can capacity development promote evidence-informed policy making?
Itad's BCURE evaluation team uncovers three important lessons in how and why different approaches to capacity building for...
Review of the RAP-3 Theory of Change
The 2016 review is a critical examination of the RAP3 theory of change conducted in consultation with stakeholders to reflect...
Evaluation of UNICEF’s PMTCT/paediatric AIDS programme
Itad has been contracted to evaluate UNICEF’s efforts to support scale up of PMTCT of HIV & Paediatric HIV care and...
Six Lessons from the 2016 UK Evaluation Society Conference
Itad was well represented at this years’ UK Evaluation Society (UKES) conference
Fifth IHP+ Monitoring Round – Country Assessments
IHP+ is a group of 65 partners committed to improving the health of citizens in developing countries by putting the principles...
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,...
