On November 4th and 5th I attended the conference ‘State of the Art Realist Methodologies’ in Leeds, hosted by the University of Leeds. Here are some of the highlights for me.
*Disclaimer: This post dives straight into Realist Evaluation concepts – my apologies to the uninitiated.
Abdulkareem Lawal, Principal Consultant, shares his reflections from attending an Impact Evaluation course at the Institute of Development Studies in April 2015.
I am a consultant working mainly for the health theme.
This week, Itad organised and hosted an Expert Roundtable as part of its ongoing assignment for the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) looking at results-based payments in the area of governance.
Is core funding really all it’s cracked up to be?
Core[i] funding: NGOs prize it highly and very few donors provide it without a lot of strings attached.
I am a Consultant in the Private Sector Development & Wealth Creation theme. I have been a staff member at Itad since June 2014.
This blog is written by Mary Ann Brocklesby and Katie Tong, who were team members on the recent Itad evaluation of DFID’s humanitarian response to Typhoon Haiyan in the Philippines.
Some reflections from a monitoring and evaluation perspective on the lecture delivered by the OECD Secretary General Angel Gurria, chaired by Lord Stern.
I’m one of the Associate Directors and I lead the companies’ work on Organisational Effectiveness.
As team leader of the evaluation of DFID’s Humanitarian Innovation and Evaluation Programme (HIEP) I am learning a lot about leading a theory-based evaluation of a complex programme over five years!
Some thoughts from a case study in fragile/conflict-affected environments.
I am a consultant in the social protection and rural livelihoods thematic area.
Itad is proud to see the Final Evaluation Report of the EU’s Support to Gender Equality and Women’s Empowerment in Partner Countries publicly launched.
The Centre for Development Impact (CDI) – our joint evaluation innovation centre with IDS and UEA, has just published a Practice Paper on Value for Money (VFM) by Angela Christie and me.
A couple of weeks ago I was at DFID, representing DFID Nigeria to present lessons from the State Accountability and Voice Initiative (SAVI) project we are doing with GRM. The event was an internal learning event on Monitoring and Evaluating Flexible and Adaptive Programming.
Last week, we wrote about the different models of results systems. The focus was very much on the ‘hardware’ of results measurement: processes, systems, structures. Today we’re looking at the ‘software’ side of things and specifically the role of leadership in creating an effective results measurement system.
I’m a Project Officer (PO) in a team of POs supporting Itad Project Managers to manage a portfolio of jobs and projects from implementation stage through to completion.
The world celebrated International Women’s Day at the weekend. It made me reflect on how invigorating it has been to start working in this space.
Last week I was at the University of East Anglia, having been asked by Maren Duvendack (one of the UEA members of the Centre of Development Impact) to talk at the School of International Development (DEV)’s careers event.
After various different job roles, I am now Itad’s Commercial Manager.