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.
19/02/2013
Blog Posts
Aranaldo Pellini looks at how evidence is informing policy in Indonesia, arguing that a big push to strengthen the use of research and data analysis in the design of public policies is needed to sustain growth.
28/01/2013
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.
17/01/2013
Blog Posts
The word on the street is that ‘evidence informed’ policy is going to be big in 2013. R2A spoke to Antonio Capillo, part of the evidence informed policy making team at INASP, and asked him to recommend some blogs on the subject.
23/10/2012
Guides & Tutorials
The five competencies framework is an exercise enabling an organisation (or a group of organisations) to work out, in a simple and effective manner, what different elements have to learn, and what they have to share in the realm of organisational learning and knowledge management.
03/09/2012
Blog Posts
We caught up with Kirsty Newman last week to talk about her new role at DFID, what she learnt from her time at INASP, and to return to some of the issues she has blogged about previously on Research to Action.
12/06/2012
Papers & Reports
This Background Note describes a case study of one attempt to assess the impact of a knowledge product: The Vietnam Development Report 2010 (VDR 2010)….
09/06/2012
Papers & Reports
Just as there have been repeated calls for aid evaluation to move beyond outputs to measure downstream impacts, it is also important for the same principles to be internalised in thinking about impact evaluations themselves.
23/05/2012
Audio & Video
Comic Relief have produced a very detailed report on Theory of Change written by Cathy James. The report aims to draw together Comic Relief staff…
21/05/2012
Audio & Video
In this latest post by Duncan Green on Theories of Change (ToC) entitled “Theories of change = logframes on steroids? A discussion with DFID” he…
21/05/2012
Templates & Toolkits
This handbook of data collection tools is intended to serve as a companion to A Guide to Measuring Advocacy and Policy. Organizational Research Services (ORS)…
16/05/2012
Guides & Tutorials
This guide is primarily for evaluators working in the international development sector. It is also useful for commissioner of evaluations, evaluation managers and M&E officers.The…
14/05/2012
Audio & Video
Isabel Vogel emailed the Knowledge Broker Forum for advice and suggestions for a review for the UK’s Department for International Development (DFID) on how theory…
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