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Guest blog: Using QuIP to evaluate Impact Networks
Impact evaluation methodologies are an evolving field, particularly when applied to network organizations. Dr Filip Zieliński attended a QuIP training course in 2024 and went on to conduct a pro bono impact evaluation of a German network of jazz venues to test the effectiveness of QuIP and the Causal Map App in the context of impact...
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Latest translation – Arabic QuIP guidelines
This week we were pleased to add another non-English language resource to our library; the QuIP guidelines are now available in Levantine Arabic – click here to access the document. Although we are still only able to offer our face to face training in English and French, we are always keen to add other language...
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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?
(Updated in March 2025) A typical QuIP evaluation study is based on a ‘unit’ of 24 interviews (and sometimes 4 focus groups), scaled up in units to 48, 72 and 96 (being the largest we have done on some complex and large projects). This invites a lot of questions! Why start with 24? Is that...
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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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