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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We are really pleased to share the news that our sister company Causal Map has been announced as winner of the 2022 SAGE Publishing Concept Grant. This grant is awarded to software tools in the early stages of development which offer useful application in academia, to enable concept testing and software development. Members of staff...
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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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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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This blog celebrates the publication of a joint Social Value UK/Bath SDR paper comparing the key similarities and differences between QuIP and Social Return on Investment, an approach used widely across the world. Anyone who works in monitoring & evaluation knows that this is a world peppered with methods, approaches and acronyms. With QuIP we...
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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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We are grateful for this guest post from Rosemary Nyaga, M&E Manager at Feed the Children. Rosemary completed an online QuIP Lead Evaluator training course in 2020 and went on to use the approach independently to evaluate a nutrition programme in Kenya – specifically working with younger respondents, a cohort which poses some specific challenges...
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A guest post by Moses Mukuru, QuIP Lead Researcher in Uganda Since 2016, when QuIP was first introduced in Uganda, seven studies have been conducted here to date, across diverse sectors such as: Sexual Reproductive Health and Rights (SRHR) Agriculture Livelihoods Education Microfinance The QuIP process was designed to include an unblindfolding/validation workshop with respondents...
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We’re delighted to share this guest post written by Mollie Liesner, Senior Impact Manager at AgDevCo. AgDevCo is an impact investor supporting the growth of sustainable and impactful agribusinesses in sub-Saharan Africa. Challenges for impact investors measuring empowerment As impact investors and development finance institutions are gradually starting to apply a gender-lens to their...
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