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Itad joins Global Climate Strike
On Friday 20th September 2019, staff from across Itad will join thousands of others in a global climate strike, marching...
Reflections on decentralised climate finance from CBA13
I recently witnessed the potential of a funding mechanism that allows indigenous people and local communities to determine how...
Evaluating transformational change in global programmes that tackle climate change
In this Itad blog, partner Sam McPherson reflects on his trip to the Noor Ouarzazate Concentrated Solar Power Plant for CIF's...
Is my social protection programme ‘shock-responsive’ or ‘adaptive’?
What is adaptive social protection? How does it differ from shock responsive social protection? Why does it matter? These were...
Five key principles for Adaptive Social Protection programming
‘Adaptive Social Protection’ (ASP) came from a realisation that social protection, disaster risk reduction and climate...
The Collaborative Urban Resilience Exchange: lessons on informal settlement data and partnership building
The Collaborative Urban Resilience Exchange took place in Cape Town, from 16–18th July 2018, as part of a collaboration...
What will Ideas to Impact’s evaluation team know about prizes by 2020?
Ideas to Impact’s evaluators from Itad have been refocusing their prize evaluation plans. In this post, they explain what...
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...
Innovation prizes and support to solvers – how much, how little?
Here we discuss the challenges of running innovation prizes for development and the questions around additional support to...
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...
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...
Thoughts from the International Association for Impact Assessment conference
Gil Yaron, team leader on our BRACED impact evaluation, reflects on his presentation at the International Association for...
Expect the unexpected: unanticipated consequences and development programming
You’ll be familiar with the basic logic of development programmes: there’s a serious problem to address; we have designed...
How and when should evaluation be brought into innovation prizes
Ideas to Impact’s evaluation team reflects on why prizes for development may require a new way of working for evaluators.
Adaptive social protection: linking theory to reality on the ground
In their recent Working Paper on Shock responsive Social protection, Oxford Policy Management (OPM) suggest that Social...
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...
