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Using tech to untangle complexity in impact evaluations
The impact evaluation world is always looking for improved ways of managing data, with many temptations out there in the form of sentient learning and clever algorithms. At BSDR we have embraced technology as an enabler throughout our QuIP journey, but with the caveat that it should always help us highlight complexity, not hide it...
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Housing Microfinance QuIP in Southern India
Guest blogger, QuIP-Accredited Consultant Max Nino-Zarazua I recently returned from the 6th Asia-Pacific Housing Forum hosted by Habitat for Humanity in Hong Kong. The forum addresses housing challenges in the Asia-Pacific region and I was invited to present the results of a housing microfinance impact study I led in Kerala and Tamil Nadu, India. The...
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A family resemblance: Outcome Harvesting and QuIP compared
The proliferation of different methods and tools for organisational monitoring, evaluation, learning and accountability (MELA) can be a source of confusion and frustration. But the opportunity to compare and contrast their parallel evolution, and their strengths and weaknesses in different contexts can also be illuminating and useful. This has certainly been the case for me...
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Global to Local: Adapting QuIP for the UK voluntary, community and social enterprise sector
The UK’s voluntary, community, and social enterprise (VCSE) sector spends around £40bn (NCVO UK Civil Society Almanac – https://data.ncvo.org.uk) on delivering services to some of the UK’s most marginalised communities and individuals. Like their counterparts in the global development sector, organisations in the UK voluntary sector face challenges in understanding their contribution to change and...
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Recorded QuIP webcast now available
The Aga Khan Foundation in Ottawa hosted James Copestake on 20th October to deliver a presentation on: Cautionary tales of complex causation: Qualitative and mixed method impact assessment of climate change and livelihood transformations in Africa A recording of the presentation is available, where you can see James Copestake talking about the background to the QuIP and...
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Dancing around the bias problem
Whenever James Copestake or I present the QuIP methodology to a new audience we are always prepared for the first question: “Is the idea of blinding the field researchers ethical?”. Having now danced around the ‘means to an end’ response for a couple of years we are pleased to publish our latest working paper on...
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