The Global Guide to Research Impact
It’s not easy to measure the impact of development research in bringing about positive change. It’s even harder to show how communications efforts, and expenditure, helps to achieve both research objectives, and development outcomes. This section aims to offer key resources and insights to help support better monitoring and evaluation of research uptake activities.
11 April 2013
Blog Posts
In his latest post, Andrew Clappison reflects upon the discussion that took place during the Future of Impact Conference, and encourages us to think about the value of impact beyond the UK’s Research Excellence Framework (REF)
7 March 2013
Papers & Reports
This working paper offers guidelines that nonprofit organizations can use when designing evaluations to learn about both their investments in communications strategies and the impacts of those investments.
25 February 2013
Blog Posts
In this post, James Harvey explores some difficult and unanswered questions on research ‘impact’, such as “How deep is our understanding of influence itself?” and “Do we really have the processes in place to detect influence at all?”
28 January 2013
Blog Posts
In this article, James Harvey examines the relationship between influence and impact and how the questions that arise have implications for current thinking on monitoring and evaluation.
12 June 2012
Papers & Reports
This Background Note describes a case study of one attempt to assess the impact of a knowledge product: The Vietnam…
21 May 2012
Templates & Toolkits
This handbook of data collection tools is intended to serve as a companion to A Guide to Measuring Advocacy and…
2 May 2012
Guides & Tutorials
We would like to draw your attention to another useful section within the Smart Toolkit, this time on indetifying indiators…
2 May 2012
Guides & Tutorials
We came across this easy to follow outline of benchmarking provided by CTA’s Smart Toolkit. It begins with a useful…
2 May 2012
Guides & Tutorials
What is an ‘after action review’ (AAR)? An ‘after action review’ provides a means of reflecting on the ‘success’ of…
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