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Monitoring and evaluating policy influence

Opinion - Articles and blogs - 2 August 2013

'Influencing policy and practice is an important component of many social interventions. But evaluating policy influence is more difficult: here are some tips on monitoring and evaluating campaigning and advocacy.'

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Enough pick and mix: time for some standards on mixing methods in impact evaluation

Opinion - Articles and blogs - 31 July 2013

'If we want mixed methods designs to be rigorous and credible, shouldn’t there be some minimum standards on how methods and data are used, combined and reported?'

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Mixed methods in evaluation: a warm up

Opinion - Articles and blogs - 29 July 2013

'Mixed methods are very much in the lime-light at the moment, but what do you understand as mixed methods in evaluation and why is it so important?'

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A whistle-stop tour of outcome mapping

Opinion - Articles and blogs - 24 July 2013

'We’d like to share with you our whistle-stop-tour of outcome mapping and how it can add value to your evaluations, drawing on our practical experiences with this method and our involvement in the Outcome Mapping Learning Community.'

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Innovation and productivity change in low-income countries

Publication - Discussion papers - 22 July 2013

Dirk Willem te Velde

This paper introduces a number of key academic and policy debates central to the DFID-ESRC Growth Research Programme's theme of innovation and explores its role in understanding research and policy on innovation.

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Aid for Trade agenda for the WTO Bali Ministerial Conference: some ideas

Opinion - Articles and blogs - 16 July 2013

On 10 July the World Trade Organisation concluded the Fourth Global Review of Aid for Trade. Trade ministers and officials will soon be heading to Bali to attend the Ninth WTO Ministerial Conference (3-6 December 2013) where they are expected to discuss future directions for Aid for Trade (AfT).

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What’s good for health is good for development. Or is it?

Opinion - Articles and blogs - 15 July 2013

'We need to ask ourselves a different question: has the ‘what’s good for health is good for development’ approach actually advanced development progress?...'

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A light touch review of the evidence-based policy in development network

Publication - Research reports and studies - 11 July 2013

Ajoy Datta and Clara Richards

This is a review of the evidence-based policy in development network (ebpdn), a 2000 strong online sharing platform for professionals engaged in research, policy and practice around evidence-informed policy.

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Shockwatch: food prices annual review

Publication - Research reports and studies - 9 July 2013

Food price updates

Steve Wiggins and Sharada Keats

ODI’s food prices updates focus on tracking international prices of key staple cereals maize, rice, and wheat, and provide commentary on events in markets that affect these prices. This issue is an annual review for the year ending April 2013. Also included is a special update: ‘Five years on from the price spike’.

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52 weeks of BetterEvaluations: how can evaluation make a difference?

Opinion - Articles and blogs - 5 July 2013

What can be done to move from a situation where evaluation reports sit on shelves gathering dust – or worse are misused – to a situation where evaluations contribute to 'social betterment'?

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