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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(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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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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Re-posted from the Plan-Eval website. For the last couple of months, Plan Eval has been working on the evaluation of a social protection program using the QuIP methodology. In this blogpost, Pauline Mauclet, Evaluator at Plan Eval, explains what this methodology is all about and reflects on some of the challenges and lessons learned from...
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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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