Policy and advocacy
Through a series of portfolio evaluations, we have refined an approach to evaluating advocacy efforts that provides our partners with compelling, evidence-based stories of their contribution to change.
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From compliance to love with MEL: Supporting busy advocacy organisations to embrace monitoring, evaluation and learning
Over the course of our work with advocacy organisations, we’ve identified three insights about how to cross the divide from...
Evaluation, Learning, and Verification for Agency Reform (ELVAR)
DFID’s 2014 Strategy for Payment by Results states that the department will use PBR to improve the value for money of their...
Learning from mapping MLE capacity for advocacy
This learning paper pulls together our thinking and provides simple lessons for MEL partners and funders on how to support...
External Review of Enabling the Business of Agriculture
This document describes the findings of an independent review of the Enabling the Business of Agriculture (EBA) project. The...
Portfolio evaluation of advocates working in the global health research and development space
Research and development for global health is a broad sphere of activities that addresses some of the most neglected areas of...
Changing a Theory of Change: six important lessons from our work with iDSI
In this Itad blog, Laura Hopkins and Stefanie Wallach explore six lessons we've learnt when it comes to changing a theory of...
Learning how to create a culture of learning
When we evaluated how the Norwegian Aid Administration practised Results-Based Management (RBM) earlier this year, one of our...
Evaluation of the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development Data (GPSDD)
Itad has been commissioned to design and conduct an evaluation of the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development Data (GPSDD).
Reflections on evaluating integrated rural development
The latest IDS Bulletin ‘The Millennium Villages: Lessons on Evaluating Integrated Rural Development‘ brings together a...
Portfolio evaluation of advocacy efforts in development policy and finance
Aid budgets should be able to respond to emerging challenges. Donors should be supporting developing countries towards the...
Evaluation of Gavi’s Support to Civil Society Organisations
The Gavi Alliance is a unique organisation that aligns public and private resources in a global effort to create greater...
Global Fund Advocacy Portfolio MLE capacity support
Monitoring, evaluation and learning can feel cumbersome to anyone – but especially to advocacy organisations who...
Evaluation of The Norwegian Aid Administration’s Practice of Results-Based Management
There is a clear political commitment to measuring and managing for results in the Norwegian aid administration. Despite this...
Impact Evaluation of the Samarth Market Development Programme in Nepal
Despite economic growth, remittances from abroad and significant donor support, poverty and inequality remain high in Nepal,...
External assessment of value for money, sustainability and coordination of DFID’s funding to the UNFPA-UNICEF Joint Programme to end FGM
External assessment of value for money, sustainability and coordination of DFID’s funding to the UNFPA-UNICEF Joint...
Christopher Smith
Christopher Smith heads Itad’s Project Management Unit. He has a background in water and environmental management.
