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New article on mixed-methods evaluation
Any academic will tell you that one of the high points of their research is seeing work finally published; so I’m delighted (and relieved!) to be able to share the news that another paper building on QuIP experiences has just been e-published – this time in the Journal of Development Effectiveness. This adds to the...
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Two approaches to mixed methods impact evaluation – new pre-publication paper
Nearly everyone is in favour of mixed method impact evaluation (MMIE), but that doesn’t make it easy to do well. Indeed, it’s often not even that clear what MMIE means. We all know it has something to do with combining ‘quant’ and ‘qual’, but are we talking about tasks, tools, techniques, methods or approaches? Having...
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How many interviews are enough?
A typical QuIP evaluation study will be based on either 24 or 48 interviews (and sometimes 4 or 8 focus groups). This invites a lot of questions! Is that enough interviews? Why start with 24? How can that be representative? We have lots to say on this – and if this interests you, check out...
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From narrative text to causal maps: QuIP analysis and visualisation
Last week saw the wrap up of our latest QuIP Lead Evaluator training course (next one comes up in June this year!), an event which always involves sending lots of links out to various resources we have written and collected over the years. Our new Resources page is lovely and easy to filter now, and...
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Whose voice? Why we must change our T&Cs
Bath Social & Development Research was set up in 2016, and in the intervening years we have had many interesting conversations about how and why the company was set up outside of its roots in the university sector, why it’s a non-profit and most of all how on earth we make the idea of blindfolding...
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QuIP findings on take-up of new formal financial services in Tanzania, Ghana and Zambia
Last week Bath SDR presented findings from our recently published report ‘Linking formal financial services with informal savings’ at the global webinar ‘Proven approaches to delivering inclusive finance’, a wrap up and review of six years of innovations pioneered by the Mastercard Foundation and WSBI programmes Savings at the Frontier and Scale2Save with 20 financial...
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Using QuIP to assess the impact of World Food Programme food systems support in six countries
The World Food Programme (WFP) Bureau in Johannesburg used QuIP as an opportunity to evaluate the real impact of WFP’s interventions whilst actively working to reduce potential confirmation bias in their research. This guest blog is written by Ludovico Alcorta – Director of Research, Southern Africa, Forcier Consulting In 2021, following participation in QuIP...
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Cracking Causality in Complex Policy Contexts
This blog was originally written by Professor James Copestake for the Centre for Qualitative Analysis at the University of Bath, and is republished here with permission. James Copestake is a Director of Bath SDR, and the original Principal Investigator on the research which produced the Qualitative Impact Protocol. One way or another, we all struggle...
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Using qualitative interviews with young people
How old do you need to be to participate in a QuIP study? Bath SDR has often been asked this question and it has been a difficult one to answer. We don’t think it can be answered with a single number, but we would like to have a clear and helpful answer to help QuIP...
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