Our topics
Our work focuses on urgent global challenges that must be addressed to reduce inequalities, grow economies and protect our planet.
Agriculture
We generate learning for more inclusive, sustainable agricultural development and share knowledge on how governments can monitor their progress towards agriculture and food security SDGs.
Climate change and natural resources
We provide insights to help our partners make evidence-based investments towards a low carbon and climate-resilient future. We are committed to taking urgent and ongoing action to address the climate crisis and aim to mainstream a climate lens across all our projects by 2023.
Conflict, peace and security
Our monitoring, evaluation and learning services help our partners make evidence-informed decisions that make a difference to the lives of people experiencing the effects of conflict and instability worldwide.
Covid-19
We believe the global response to the pandemic should be guided by evidence. We are generating insights to support our partners to face challenges created by and learn from the Covid-19 pandemic.
Education
Our work in education promotes a cross-sectoral, whole-child approach to measuring the effectiveness of education. We support our partners to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of education systems and programmes across the world.
Gender and social inclusion
Our work addresses a cross-section of global gender inequality and inclusion challenges, and spans all of our topics, from women’s economic empowerment to addressing violence against women in families, workplaces and communities.
Governance
Effective systems of governance are vital for sustainable development. We work alongside our partners to help identify what works best in governance programming to help them strengthen the effectiveness and impact of their work.
Health
Our health work is focused on some of our most pressing and urgent challenges. We produce compelling evidence of what works to improve people’s sexual, reproductive and maternal health and work to strengthen health systems and global health security.
Humanitarian assistance
As humanitarian need continues to rise sharply against the backdrop of increasingly more complex and protracted crises the need for evidence to inform more effective decision making remains critical.
Impact investment and finance
We provide evidence on what works in financial inclusion and impact investing and generate learning to support access and use savings and lending mechanisms.
Markets, business and supply chains
We work with companies, corporate foundations, investors and donors to accelerate progress towards inclusive market systems, quality jobs and livelihoods, and systemic change.
Migration and displacement
We are at the forefront of evaluation within the field of migration and displacement, offering a cross-cutting, holistic lens to monitor and evaluate what works, where, and why, with a particular focus on protection and the rights of refugees and migrants.
Nutrition
We help understand what works and why in addressing the complex causes of malnutrition across food, social, living, and health environments and within cultural, policy and economic contexts.
Policy and advocacy
We have refined an approach to evaluating advocacy efforts that provides our partners with compelling, evidence-based stories of their contribution to change.
Poverty and livelihoods
Understanding the multidimensional nature of poverty and people’s livelihoods is at the heart of sustainable development. We identify works in which contexts to best enable people and communities to enhance their capabilities, assets and activities.
Research impact
The key to research impact is building the connections between evidence producers and consumers. We help our partners build effective evidence ecosystems that support sustainable development.
