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.
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Supporting Norad’s Department for Climate, Nature and the Private Sector
We are working in partnership with Norad (the Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation) to support the development and...
Smaller budgets, bigger impact?
Reflections on the legacy of the Global Challenges Research Fund for future research and innovation funding.
Supporting learning on climate and health intersections
We are evaluating the effectiveness and implementation of the Wellcome Trust’s Climate Impact Awards, a scheme aimed at...
Equitable innovation through strategic research collaboration
We are assessing the effectiveness of the Gates Foundation and the UK Government’s Agricultural Research Partnership in...
Promoting impact in research and innovation
How can management structures and implementation processes increase innovation and impact for development? Download the...
Evaluation of the Global Challenges Research Fund
We assessed the UK Government’s flagship Global Challenges Research Fund, providing vital insights throughout on its...
Evaluating Wellcome Foundation’s Drug Resistant Infections Projects
We are developing a methodology to evaluate Wellcome’s Surveillance Partnership to Improve Data for Action on Antimicrobial...
New evidence highlights pre-conditions for development research impact
New insights from Itad demonstrate how evaluative methods can be used at earlier stages of development research programmes to...
New book highlights value of theories of change for social impact
Insights from Itad feature in a new book on how the Theory of Change framework can help those interested in designing...
Using realist evaluation to support evidence-based policy making
An innovative Itad evaluation generated valuable lessons on what works to build capacity for evidence-informed policy making,...
Building foundations for development impact in large scale research funds
Assessing how the Global Challenges Research Fund created the environment for impact in its early years and achieve...
Evaluation of the Wellcome Trust’s Anti-Microbial Resistance Virtual Policy Think Tank
We are delivering an evaluation of the Virtual Policy Think Tank to ensure its strategies, systems and initial outputs are...
Providing MEL support to the UK government’s Knowledge, Evidence and Learning for Development Programme
Itad is the monitoring, evaluation and learning partner to The Knowledge, Evidence and Learning for Development Programme...
Keeping it real: using mechanisms in realist evaluation
A new paper in a special issue of New Directions for Evaluation explores the use of mechanisms within the realist evaluation...
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...
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...
