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David Mckenzie's post on Development Impact: An underappreciated benefit of experiments: convincing politicians when their pet projects don’t work is worth...
When it comes to policy influence, what is unique about impact evaluations in relation to other types of research? Let me explain why I am asking this question. When I was...
Johanna Morariu, Senior Associate with Innovation Network. Innovation Network (http://www.innonet.org/) describes an approach to evaluating think tanks in the American...
Rick Davies has published an 'A-list' of documents relating to value for money in international development -although this is perfectly relevant for domestic policy concerns. One aspect of this analysis that I...
A list of essential evaluation literature, and some contacts courtesy of Ben Ramalingam, Harry Jones, and myself. The list focuses on evaluation but I've added some that include reflections on the evaluation of...
Harry Jones from RAPID just published a background note written as a part of a project that we worked on last year with Jeremy Clarke to develop a How to Note on M&E of Policy Influencing...
Goran Buldioski offers another take on the rankings in his blog Goran's musings and some very interesting recommendations that I republish below: As someone who works...
I'll accept that James McGann's effort to identify and rank all the think tanks in the world has some positive outcomes. First of all, it has people talking about think...
Contribution analysis: An approach to exploring cause and effect A couple of posts ago I reported on a study on rates of return to research. One of the main challenges identified by the...
This is the million dollar question: If on the main objectives of think tanks is to influence policy change, how can they prove they have, in fact, done it? This...