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A word cloud with words relevant to monitoring, evaluation and learning (Image: IIED)
Monitoring and evaluation, and impact evaluation methods
Article, 01 March 2017
An IIED workshop in September 2016 that focused on conceptualising 'better evidence' (Photo: Celie Manuel/IIED)
Generating better evidence for sustainable development research and evaluation
Project, 24 March 2017
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IIED research and evidence in academia
… loss. Publishing research in such journals, and subjecting our work to peer review, enables the institute to produce research that … to reach a wide and highly credible audience while ensuring that our evidence is of the highest quality . Below is the latest IIED research … principal researcher Alejandro Guarín and associate Emma Blackmore . Impact investment in marine conservation  (2021), Ecosystem Services …
Article, 23 September 2020
Community-led mapping in the informal settlement of Mathare in Nairobi, Kenya, helps to record and reflect local people's needs and priorities (Photo: Sohel Ahmed)
Q&A: Why do we need a philosophy for better evidence?
Article, 14 March 2017
Conversation between a woman with a notebook and a man, with trees in the background
The Nobel and poverty alleviation: "A slow deliberative process of discovery – no miracle cure"
… this award. Kremer et al have demonstrated how this kind of detailed evidence can help in changing development economics in a very real way. … of an international policy research think tank – just coming up to our 50th birthday – many of the things they have talked about resonate … the problem, are not in themselves the answer to making the biggest impact and creating the possibility of taking solutions to scale.  She …
Insight, 23 October 2019
Woman filling a jerry can with water
Putting gender, intersectionality and social justice at the centre of transformative responses to climate change
… At IIED, our strategy commits us to address inequality and promote the rights and … this understanding to support transformative changes. 3. Tracking our impact IIED’s emphasis on effective monitoring, evaluation, and learning … impact framework . 4. Gendered and intersectional communication of evidence We must also improve on how we reflect gender and inclusion …
Insight, 19 May 2021
Richard Reeves uses Lego to illustrate in a video how inequality affects the American Dream, an example of Brookings' communications creativity (Image: Brookings Institution)
(Should) All systems go?
… were prepared to run with a creative idea, apparently achieving impact on an impressive, but more one-off, basis. Making high finance … always be testing and developing what we do while, at the same time, evaluating the content to see whether it achieves its objectives. … notes for internal use. These are extremely useful for providing evidence of what works (and what doesn't) when we plan similar …
Insight, 17 November 2017
Man watches a video of elephants on a laptop
IIED online
… we publish annual statutory trustees reports and regular impact stories , and provide information about our  finances and funding  and corporate policies to ensure that we are … technical challenges – and exciting opportunities. We can publish evidence and research in multiple formats –  from videos to  animations …
Page, 27 July 2022
Top publications of 2018
IIED's best of 2018: publications
… 7,000 publications are available free of charge in PDF format from our Publications Library . We have compiled a list of the top 10 … to the more widely understood concepts of rights, governance, social impact and human wellbeing. This 38-page issue paper suggests four ways … in SDGs implementation, follow-up and review. 3 Citizen-generated evidence for a more sustainable and healthy food system Research report …
Article, 21 December 2018
A CCAFS and CIAT participatory photography project in Chiquimula, Guatemala. A framework on how to monitor and evaluate social learning approaches is now available. (Photo: Gian Betancourt/CIAT, Creative Commons via Flickr)
Paper outlines framework to monitor and evaluate social learning approaches
… being used in development research, there is still a lack of robust evidence on the best methods for bringing about social learning, and in … across a range of projects and programs. The paper, Monitoring and evaluating social learning: a framework for cross-initiative application … Social learning is not always the most appropriate approach; our analysis should reveal in what situations initiatives and …
Insight, 13 February 2015