Research impact
Positive change can take place rapidly if the decisions made by policy-makers, practitioners and individuals are based on reliable research and evidence. The extent to which research impacts sustainable development is influenced by complex factors on the supply and demand side of evidence production.
The key to research impact is building the connections between evidence producers and consumers. Individuals’ require the skills to access and appraise evidence, while organisations need to strengthen culture to use evidence. By working on the supply and demand, we help partners build effective evidence ecosystems to support research impact.
Through our evaluation, learning and strategy services we support our partners to maximise the impact of their research to ensure that it is used, informs learning, and impacts policy and practice. By working on research supply and demand, we help our partners build effective evidence ecosystems that support sustainable development.
Project
Strengthening Research and Knowledge Systems (SRKS) Evaluation
The Strengthening Research and Knowledge Systems (SRKS), was a five-year (2013-2018) programme which aimed to increase...
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Evaluation of DFID’s Humanitarian Innovation and Evidence Programme
The Humanitarian Emergency Response Review (HERR), chaired by Lord Ashdown, emphasised the need to improve the evidence base...
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Global Fund Advocacy Portfolio Level Assessment
The Global Fund partnership mobilises and invests more than US$4 billion a year to support programmes run by local experts in...
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Building Capacity to Use Research Evidence (BCURE)
The effective use of research and evidence can play a crucial role in making policy more successful. However, while...
Publications
Report
Research for Development indicators: A review of funder practice
The Newton Fund and the GCRF are managed by BEIS (Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy) to promote research...
Report
Development of key performance indicators – Final Report
BEIS (Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy) spends part of the overseas aid budget on research and...
Report
Evaluation of Humanitarian Innovation and Evidence Programme: Summative Phase Two
The Department for International Development (DFID) invested £54.6 million into a humanitarian innovation and evidence...
Report
Executive Summary: Evaluation of Humanitarian Innovation and Evidence Programme: Summative Phase Two
The Department for International Development (DFID) invested £54.6 million into a humanitarian innovation and evidence...
Blogs and news
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Continuing results in development:
Continuing results in development:
the importance of evidence during COVID-19
The COVID-19 (C19) pandemic has had profound effects on lives around the world and will continue to do so for years, if not...
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Rapid evaluations: how an evaluation with a quick turnaround can support adaptive management
Adaptive management requires learning as you go. Decisions need to be taken to support course-correction – and they need to...
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The complex reality of evaluation independence
An article in the Guardian got us thinking about the importance of independence in evaluation, and what ‘independence’...
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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...