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Posts that discuss and critique analytical methods (qualitative and quantitative) used for research and evaluation

Research
  • Methods
  • New Evidence
  • R&E Practice

Year in review: R&E Search for Evidence 2022

Jan 13, 2023 | By Dorgham Abusalim
Health
  • Methods
  • New Evidence
  • R&E Practice

Social marketing and health literacy innovation: Using a partner approach in diabetes prevention

Dec 20, 2022 | By Rebecca Ledsky (Principal Investigator)
An adolescent girl writes on a large paper tablet with other adolescents gathered around watching
Health
  • Methods

Increasing the impact of reproductive health programs through social norms: Qualitative research in Burundi

Jan 12, 2022 | By Betsy Costenbader and Catherine Packer
Illustration of films reels depicting screen shots from the Research Roundtable video
Health
  • Methods
  • New Evidence
  • Research Roundtables

Research Roundtable video: Exploring the impact of stigma for people living with HIV in the United States

Apr 6, 2021 | By Annette N. Brown
Illustration of the four-stage research utilization framework
Research
  • Evidence Utilization
  • Methods

Methods to support a systematic approach to research utilization

Feb 26, 2021 | By Kate Plourde and Kirsten Krueger
Gender, Equity, Safeguarding and Social inclusion
  • Methods
  • New Evidence

The evidence base for social norms-based approaches to reduce intimate partner violence in LMICs

Feb 1, 2021 | By Annette N. Brown
Four young siblings wearing school uniforms walk across a crop field
Nutrition
  • Methods
  • R&E Practice
  • Uncategorized

School-based physical activity and diet interventions can be effective for addressing obesity in children in LMICs: Evidence from systematic reviews

Nov 13, 2020 | By Annette N. Brown and Jacqueline Shieh
WHO illustration of the dual burden of malnutrition
Nutrition
  • Methods
  • R&E Practice

What evidence is there for interventions to address the dual burden of malnutrition? A rapid review

Oct 13, 2020 | By Annette N. Brown and Jacqueline Shieh
Annette Brown presenting the results of the rapid evidence review to her colleagues
Research
  • How-to
  • Methods

An approach to rapid evidence review and what we learned when we piloted it

Sep 30, 2020 | By Annette N. Brown
Illustration of films reels depicting screen shots from the Research Roundtable video
Health
  • Methods
  • Research Roundtables

Research Roundtable video: Improving health equity in the United States

Jun 25, 2020 | By Annette N. Brown
School Support Officer conducting a pupil assessment in an empty classroom in Northern Nigeria
Research
  • How-to
  • Methods

How to pick the right survey tool for your COVID-19 context

Jun 9, 2020 | By Brian Dooley
Researchers discussing field operations in Borno Nigeria
Civil SocietyHealth
  • Methods
  • New Evidence

Let’s be SMART about it: Collecting real-time nutrition data in crisis and conflict settings

May 28, 2020 | By Halima Oji
An African woman and school-age girl smiling and using a tablet
Education
  • Methods
  • R&E Practice

Operationalizing ‘what works’ for education in emergencies research: 5 factors that facilitate ethical randomized designs

May 7, 2020 | By Anne Smiley, Wael Moussa and Tanya Smith-Sreen
Collection of images showing four modes of data collection: in-person, online video, online text-based chat, and online message-board style posts
Research
  • Methods
  • New Evidence
  • R&E Practice

What’s mode got to do with it? Comparing in-person and online qualitative data collection

Jan 29, 2020 | By Emily Namey
Two women participating in a computer video call
Research
  • Methods
  • R&E Practice

Can you see me now? My experiences testing different modes of qualitative data collection

Jan 14, 2020 | By Emily Namey
Hand holding a burning sparkler firework
Research
  • Methods
  • New Evidence
  • R&E Practice

Year in review: What are the most popular blog posts of 2019?

Dec 30, 2019 | By Corey White
Forty-seven-year-old Maria Chateka from Chikwawa District, Malawi is a widow living with HIV currently looking after her son, her late sister’s daughter, and her grandchild. Through One Community’s Village Savings and Loans Group (VSL), she now owns a shop which brings her a healthy profit of $10 a day. She uses this money to pay for school fees, buy her household necessities, and reinvest into her VSL group.
Economic Development
  • Methods
  • New Evidence

Whether, which and when: Developing guidance for the integration of household economic strengthening activities into family support programming

Nov 13, 2019 | By Emily Namey
Financial diary surrounded by cash money and ink pen
Economic Development
  • Methods
  • New Evidence

Show me the money! How we have used financial diaries to inform research and programming for vulnerable groups

Oct 28, 2019 | By Lara Lorenzetti, Emily Namey and Mandy Swann
Economic Development
  • Methods
  • New Evidence

Understanding the financial lives of vulnerable groups using financial diaries

Oct 7, 2019 | By Mandy Swann, Emily Namey and Lara Lorenzetti
Annette Brown: Let’s bring back theory to theory of change
Research
  • Methods
  • R&E Practice

Let’s bring back theory to theory of change

Aug 22, 2019 | By Annette N. Brown
Health
  • Methods
  • New Evidence

Core processes: A theory and evidence-based methodology used in program design

Jul 10, 2019 | By Judith Nalukwago
Civil Society
  • Methods
  • New Evidence

Some good news in evidence for peacebuilding

Jun 25, 2019 | By Annette N. Brown
Economic Development
  • Methods
  • New Evidence

ASPIRES’ realist evaluation approach to building the evidence base for household economic strengthening to reduce HIV vulnerability

May 30, 2019 | By Emily Namey
Economic DevelopmentGender, Equity, Safeguarding and Social inclusion
  • Methods
  • New Evidence

R-E-S-P-E-C-T: Find out what a study’s unintended consequence means to me

May 23, 2019 | By Jacqueline Shieh
Research
  • Methods
  • R&E Practice

That’s great, but what does it cost?

Mar 18, 2019 | By Rick Homan
Health
  • Methods
  • New Evidence

New evidence from gender-based violence research among key populations can inform HIV programming

Mar 13, 2019 | By Michele Lanham
EducationYouth
  • Methods

One of our favorite studies: A case study of feminist mathematics

Jan 23, 2019 | By Maryann Stimmer, Merle Froschl, Felix Fernandez and Lara Lorenzetti
Health
  • Methods

Making a difference with research: Working with partners, patients and communities in Durham, North Carolina

Jan 14, 2019 | By Kate MacQueen
Research
  • Methods
  • New Evidence

Is the evidence we use in international development verifiable? Push button replication provides the answer

Jan 7, 2019 | By Annette N. Brown
Health
  • Methods

Getting behind human-centered design for contraceptive innovation

Dec 26, 2018 | By Anna Lawton
Civil SocietyHealth
  • Methods
  • New Evidence

Surprise (or not)! Toy-in-soap intervention increases handwashing among kids in emergency contexts

Oct 25, 2018 | By Corey White
Health
  • Methods

Custom indicators track online outreach in Jamaica

Oct 18, 2018 | By Abrahim Simmonds and Shelly Trim
Education
  • Methods
  • New Evidence

Implementing reading lesson plans with high fidelity boosts Grade 1 student reading outcomes in the USAID/Madagascar Mahay Mamaky Teny program

Oct 10, 2018 | By Yvonne Cao and Wael Moussa
Education
  • How-to
  • Methods

Learning by doing: How to successfully apply the Collaborating, Learning, and Adapting (CLA) approach in your programs

Aug 21, 2018 | By Nathalie Louge
Health
  • How-to
  • Methods

From innovation-to-scale: Identifying innovative health interventions to better understand factors influencing their adoption and scale-up

Aug 1, 2018 | By Lauren Bader
Economic DevelopmentHealth
  • Methods
  • R&E Practice

We should be able to evaluate interventions for the disabled

Jun 29, 2018 | By Annette N. Brown
Education
  • Methods

From concept to practice: 5 steps to measure education equity

May 30, 2018 | By Carina Omoeva, Wael Moussa and Rachel Hatch
Education
  • Methods

Unpacking PLCs: What evidence do we have about professional learning communities and how can we produce more?

May 16, 2018 | By Fernanda Soares and Kirsten Galisson
Technology
  • Methods

A mixed method research design for understanding how ICT tools assist climate change adaptation

May 7, 2018 | By Berhane Gebru and Diana Rutherford
Research
  • Methods
  • R&E Practice

New directions in portfolio reviews

Apr 30, 2018 | By Michael Ferguson, Mandy Swann and Lara Lorenzetti
Education
  • Methods

What can we learn from fidelity of implementation monitoring models within early grade reading programs?

Apr 25, 2018 | By Yvonne Cao, Anne Smiley, Fernanda Soares and Chndy Rogel
EducationTechnology
  • Methods

Addressing bias in our systematic review of STEM research

Apr 5, 2018 | By Lara Lorenzetti, Felix Fernandez, Merle Froschl and Maryann Stimmer
HealthNutrition
  • Methods

Searching for social norms measures related to modern contraceptive use

Feb 21, 2018 | By Betsy Costenbader and Rachel Lenzi
EducationYouth
  • Methods
  • R&E Practice

5 features of a monitoring, evaluation and learning system geared towards equity in education

Jan 23, 2018 | By Carina Omoeva
Research
  • Methods

Beyond DALYs: New measures for a new age of development

Dec 18, 2017 | By Rick Homan and Kayla Stankevitz
Health
  • Methods

From the Red Book to the Blue Book: Advancing HIV surveillance among key populations

Nov 29, 2017 | By Mike Merrigan and Timothy Mastro
Research
  • Conferences
  • Evidence Utilization
  • Methods

How fast is rapid? What I learned about rapid reviews at Global Evidence Summit

Nov 13, 2017 | By Annette N. Brown
Civil Society
  • Methods
  • R&E Practice

5 lessons for using youth video diaries for monitoring and evaluation

Nov 6, 2017 | By Rindala Mikhael
Research
  • Methods

Exploring the parameters of “it depends” for estimating the rate of data saturation in qualitative inquiry

Aug 24, 2017 | By Greg Guest and Emily Namey
Research
  • Methods
  • R&E Practice

Don’t spin the bottle, please: Challenges in the implementation of probability sampling designs in the field, Part II

Jun 19, 2017 | By Mario Chen
Research
  • Methods
  • R&E Practice

Sample size is not king: Challenges in the implementation of probability sampling designs in the field, Part I

Jun 12, 2017 | By Mario Chen
Health
  • Methods

Learning about focus groups from an RCT

Mar 13, 2017 | By Annette N. Brown

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