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In 2023, the UK Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office and the Thinking and Working Politically Community of Practice published Understanding political economy analysis and thinking and working politically. This complementary note sets out more detailed guidance on how to undertake a dynamic Stakeholder Analysis and Political Network Mapping, which are core elements of political economy analysis and other forms of politically informed context analysis. This technical note is for use...
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Regenerative Evaluation: Evaluation in Service of Life To foster change today means navigating a gap between two realities: the reality of reporting (demanding accountability and proof of impact) and the reality of the planet (calling for regeneration, complexity, and interconnectedness). For too long, evaluation has forced a choice, functioning as an extractive exercise—mining data to count the "fruits" of a project while ignoring the health of the "soil" that sustains them....
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This learning paper on funding and entrepreneurship support for adaptation and resilience is a collaboration between SILP and the Climate Adaptation Innovation & Learning Initiative project. It brings together real-world insights from a community of 25 practitioners working across intermediary roles in the climate adaptation and resilience sector. Rather than presenting a fixed model, the paper explores how intermediaries operate in the “in-between spaces”, navigating tensions between...
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Despite widespread endorsement of locally led development, donor agencies still struggle to translate local agency into cumulative change. Donor discourse increasingly emphasises localisation and community leadership, yet operational arrangements remain structured around upward compliance. The practical question is how local agency and institutional accountability can work together so that locally generated insights lead the way while portfolio coherence is maintained. This paper examines a...
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AI’s role in evaluation: so long and thanks for all the synthesis How generative AI can enhance evaluation and analysis? We share three real-world case studies to explore what works, what doesn’t, and how to harness AI responsibly. Generative AI is everywhere—but is it really the answer to Life, the Universe and Everything? At Itad, we see AI as a powerful assistant, not a replacement for human judgment. Our new learning brief, The evaluator’s guide to generative AI, shares lessons from...
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In this blog, Arnaldo Pellini, Kristian Paolo Torres, and Tania Dora Warokka reflect on their experience developing and testing a rubric to support dialogue and learning as complex initiatives are integrated into public systems.
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Authors: Suzane Muhereza & Zazie Tolmer Contributor: Simone Uriartt & Bianca Tejada
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This supplemental guide offers practical advice for thinking and working politically (TWP) when practicing the Conservation Standards. The CS are a widely used, systematic approach for planning, monitoring, and adapting programs aiming to conserve biodiversity. TWP is an approach to international development that brings greater attunement to the political dynamics of the local programming context in order to enhance development results. Given strong evidence that political factors...
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The case for Conversation-based reporting (CBR)
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There is growing engagement with “relational” approaches to community development work - interventions that give practical or even metaphysical primacy to relations and processes over identities and outcomes. But what more can we say about the nature and efficacy of such approaches? CLARISSA SP+ and WorkFREE were two major relational community development intervention and research projects that took place in Bangladesh and India respectively. In this article, I compare the experiences and...
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The growing interest in systems-change initiatives sits alongside increasing pressure to demonstrate value for money (VFM), which is challenging for emergent, interconnected and often intangible work. A new way to assess the VFM of systems-change work involves considering the value of changing system conditions and the creation of potential value for future systems transformation. This innovation combines the Water of Systems Change framework with the Cycles of Value Creation to create five...
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This blog by Jonathan Kuhn-Patrick (UK Evaluation Society Trustee and AI Working Group Lead) explores the five emotional stages many evaluators experience as they begin working with AI.
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Quality assurance strategies when working on unfamiliar topics
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Amid growing concerns over sustainable development failures, scholars are exploring the ‘regenerative paradigm’ as a pathway for systemic change; yet, its paradigmatic foundations remain underexamined. Using thematic analysis, we analyse the regenerative knowledge field through an integrative review of 320 cross-disciplinary articles on regenerative approaches, synthesising findings into an interactive Regenerative Paradigm Map with 7 principles, 33 themes, and 253 specific elements. We...
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The Digital Justice Network produced a guide that originated from the realisation that civil society organisations and activists need help in establishing generative AI policies and properly utilise these tools when necessary. “Some of our activists are drafting statements with ChatGPT, and I’m worried about what approach we should take.” Many organisations are likely having similar concerns. With the emergence of various generative AI services—such as chatbots like ChatGPT and Gemini, and...
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This practical guide from the UK Evaluation Society explores how evaluators can use AI tools responsibly and transparently across all stages of the evaluation process.
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Track to Change homepage
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Earlier this year we spoke to 102 leaders from across the globe to ask: Ten years from now, what will we regret not having done today? This framing turned out to be a powerful device for collective horizon scanning and foresight. Across every conversation there was a sense that this moment demands more from us all, along with a strong eagerness to explore what we can own and act on. More than that, these discussions surfaced direction, hope and a way forward. From CEOs, professors, PhDs,...
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