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New journal article! Causal Mapping for Evaluators
Steve Powell shares news of the publication of our article on causal mapping in the journal Evaluation. We have come to think of causal mapping as (part of) the logic of QuIP analysis, but until now had not set this in the context of an existing body of work which has contributed to the development...
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Causal mapping local progress towards the SDGs; Bath & North East Somerset
Recent news has rung alarm bells about how far away the world is from meeting the 17 Sustainable Development Goals set by the UN; documenting what is and isn’t helping us move in the right direction has never been more important. Speeches and campaigns tend to grab headlines, but what is really going on at...
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QuIP evaluation of the UK Tampon Tax Fund
Over the last two years Bath SDR has been working with Kantar Public UK on several research projects, embedding QuIP into larger evaluations. The most recent study was commissioned to help evaluate the sector and organisational level impacts of the UK Government’s Tampon Tax Fund (TTF). This fund was set up to divert the VAT...
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Causal Pathways virtual symposium in September!
Bath SDR is an active member of the Causal Pathways network – a group set up to focus interest in all things causal, particularly amongst US philanthropic institutions. The group has a centralised resource hub and news page which you can find at causalpathways.org. Here we bring you news of a virtual symposium which may...
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Using QuIP and the Causal Map app in PhD research: Understanding how social protection influences asylum seeker wellbeing in the UK
We are grateful for this guest post from Michelle James. Michelle is a PhD researcher specialising in refugee and asylum seeker welfare and wellbeing in the UK. She also works as an independent research consultant in the development sector. Her particular interests include partnership models of development, community empowerment and mobilisation, and behaviour change. I...
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QuIP and FairVoice
Last year, The Fairtrade Foundation commissioned Bath SDR to evaluate the impact of their work with cocoa farming cooperatives in Côte D’Ivoire. Fairtrade wanted an accurate portrayal of everything that was affecting farmers within these cooperatives to help inform organisational and programme decisions. By asking farmers about any changes in their lives, rather than focusing...
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Seeking a research partner in Mauritania
Bath SDR is looking for research partners in Mauritania to work on a qualitative research study in conjunction with Trinity College Dublin and the World Bank. We are seeking to recruit a representative who can act as a lead in-country researcher, whether in an individual or institutional capacity. Successful applicants should have senior experience in...
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PDA Ghana tries out causal mapping!
Participatory Development Associates (PDA) has collaborated with Bath SDR since 2016 to implement several QuIPs (evaluations using the Qualitative Impact Protocol) and other research projects across Ghana and in the Democratic Republic of Congo, undertaking hundreds of in-depth interviews, FGDs, surveys – and pulling together quant and qual evidence for clients. The team was keen...
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Conducting QuIPs in the context of Covid-19: Lessons from EduFinance
Last year we shared some reflections from our experiences of adapting and developing the QuIP approach in the context of the pandemic, highlighting how we had encountered both practical and methodological challenges. One of the issues we’ve continued to grapple with is how to facilitate conversations about changes over time without Covid-19 entirely dominating the causal...
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