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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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