Strengthening Evidence Based Policy - Policy Anticipation, Response and Evaluation: Recent submissions
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Evaluation and Impact Investing: A Review of Methodologies to Assess Social Impact
(IDS, 2017-02)This report highlights the paradox within impact investing: the prioritisation of ‘social impact’ without prioritising ‘impact evidence’. The growth of metrics, ratings and certification-based approaches has sought to ... -
Strengthening Evidence-Based Policy Outputs: April 2015 – December 2016
(IDS, 2017-02)This is the third and final brochure describing the outputs of the Strengthening Evidence-Based Policy programme. Over 57 months this programme generated and synthesised policy-relevant evidence, and contributed to policy ... -
Gauging Demand for Evidence and Accountability in Impact Investing by using Twitter Social Network Analysis: A Methodology
(IDS, 2016-11)This report explains the methodology used to analyse the demand for evidence and accountability within the impact investment market. Social network analysis (SNA), qualitative interviews and ego network analysis were used ... -
Achieving Diverse Development Goals: How can Different Goals be Pursued Together?
(IDS, 2016-10)In 2015, the international community adopted 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to focus development policy globally. The Goals range across diverse fields of public policy from industry, finance and agriculture to ... -
Integrating Sustainable Development: A Foresight Analysis of Interactions Among Competing Development Challenges
(IDS, 2016-10)This report documents an exercise undertaken by development scholars based at the Institute of Development Studies (IDS) and the University of Sussex (both in Brighton, UK) to explore the interactions among three key goals ... -
The Potential of M-health for Improved Data Use: Workshop Report
(IDS, 2016-07)The Institute of Development Studies (IDS), in partnership with World Vision Indonesia, are exploring whether a recently implemented nutrition surveillance intervention, known as M-health, is being used to improve ... -
The Potential of M-health for Improved Data Use: Workshop Report
(IDS, 2016-07)The Institute of Development Studies, in partnership with World Vision Indonesia, are exploring whether a recently implemented nutrition surveillance intervention, known as M-health, is being used to improve community-based ... -
Inclusion, Ethics and Evaluation: Panel Discussion
(IDS, 2016-07)This panel discussion is supported by the Institute of Development Studies' Department for International Development Accountable Grant, with a view to continue a dialogue around the use and application of ethics in impact ... -
Foresight Methods: A Guide to Easily Accessible Toolkits
(IDS, 2016-06)This Evidence Report provides an introduction to a number of easily accessible toolkits relating to the use of Foresight and Futures approaches and methods in development-oriented research and planning. Section 2 of this ... -
The Role of Cities and Urbanisation in Achieving Development Goals
(IDS, 2016-05)The world is in the midst of a long and uneven urban transition, with the great majority of urbanisation and urban population growth now occurring in parts of Asia and Africa. Urbanisation has profound effects on local ... -
Testing TwitterWeave: An Application of the New IDS Web Tool for Tracking Research
(IDS, 2016-05)Understanding how people engage with research is a key issue for researchers, donors and anyone concerned with research impact, but observing this type of engagement is not easy. However, thanks to today’s widespread use ... -
What Role Does the European Union Play in International Development?
(Institute of Development Studies, 2016-05-17)As a body of 28 member states and with a combined GDP of close to US$20tn, greater than that of the US, the actions of the European Union (EU) have the potential to impact heavily – either negatively or positively – on ... -
Edible Insects and the Future of Food
(IDS, 2016-04)Some experts think that edible insects could be a good option for sustainable protein production and consumption, and one of the keys to global food security in a world of nine billion people or more. We used the methods ... -
Reflections from a Realist Evaluation in Progress: Scaling Ladders and Stitching Theory
(IDS, 2016-04)Realist evaluation provides valuable insights into how and why programmes lead to change, and can generate transferable lessons to help practitioners roll out or scale up an intervention. However, as yet there are few ... -
Building Evaluability Assessments into Institutional Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) Frameworks
(IDS, 2016-03)This CDI Practice Paper by Richard Longhurst, Peter Wichmand and Burt Perrin discusses how evaluability assessments (EAs) can support the choice of evaluation approaches for determining impact, drawing on recent experiences ... -
Real-time Monitoring in Disease Outbreaks: Strengths, Weaknesses and Future Potential
(IDS, 2016-03)This Evidence Report analyses the potential contribution of epidemic real-time monitoring (ERTM) initiatives to enhancing and augmenting disease surveillance systems in developing countries. It gathers and synthesises ... -
A Real-time Web Application for Tracking Twitter Exchanges about Research
(IDS, 2016-02)Understanding how people engage with research is an increasingly important issue, and not just for researchers. Funders, the media, politicians and ultimately the wider public are increasingly concerned about value for ... -
Using Participatory Statistics to Examine the Impact of Interventions to Eradicate Slavery: Lessons from the Field
(IDS, 2016-02)This CDI Practice Paper by Pauline Oosterhoff, Sowmyaa Bharadwaj, Danny Burns, Aruna Mohan Raj, Rituu B. Nanda and Pradeep Narayanan reflects on the use of participatory statistics to assess the impact of interventions to ... -
Bridging the Gap: Synthesising Evidence from Secondary Quantitative and Primary Qualitative Data
(IDS, 2016-02)There is widespread recognition that mixed-methods approaches are a ‘platinum standard’ in research and evaluation and that the expanding availability of secondary quantitative data creates unprecedented opportunities for ...