Rethinking Impact Evaluation for Development
The new IDS Bulletin Rethinking Impact Evaluation for Development is the first of two bulletins which build on the event Impact, Innovation and Learning: Towards a Research and Practice Agenda for the...
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Six things that help grant-makers learn and adapt
There’s an emerging body of literature identifying key strategies that can both improve learning and enable adaptive management amongst grant-makers. We recently reviewed a host of publications from...
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How accountability trumps learning: three lessons from evaluating the...
At this year’s UK Evaluation Society Conference, we reflected on Itad’s experience working on the independent evaluation for the Tilitonse programme. Tilitonse, which means ‘we are together’ in...
View ArticleLearning about learning. Wait! What?
I’ve been spending the last couple of weeks thinking about Learning Partnerships, what they are, what they can offer and how we can make them more effective. In my role as Project Director on the...
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What we learnt at the 2018 UKES conference
Itad had several members of staff involved in this year’s UK Evaluation Society (UKES) conference, which was framed around the evaluation cycle, considering the demand for, supply and use of evidence...
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Mixing, matching and modifying methods in realist evaluation: should we be...
At Itad, we see choosing an evaluation approach as an art as much as a science: there’s always a lot to consider. As a result, our evaluation designs are often hybrids, drawing on a range of different...
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The power of parsimony: why less might be more when it comes to grantee...
It’s a moment that many organisations dread: the looming deadline for a report to a funder. Done well, the process of gathering and making sense of information about a grantee’s work can be a useful...
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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 main conclusions was that the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) and Norad...
View ArticleThe complex reality of evaluation independence
A recent article in the Guardian explored serious concerns raised in the journal BMJ global health about major development funders such as DFID exaggerating the impact of their programmes or ‘gagging’...
View ArticleItad at Evaluation 2019
We’ll be at ‘Paths to the future of evaluation’, this year’s American Evaluation Association conference, in Minneapolis from 11 to 16 November. With colleagues from across the world, we’ll be leading...
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