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Beneficiary feedback: necessary but not sufficient?
One of the things I love about working in DFID is that people take the issue of beneficiary* feedback very seriously. Of course we don’t get it right all the time. But I like to think that the kind of...
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The arrival of mini-evidence!
Readers, I have to confess that I have been keeping a secret from you; for the last nine months, in my spare time, I have been growing a human! I didn’t want to mention it before because I was feeling...
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Does public (mis)understanding of science actually matter?
Babies suffer through a lot of bogus treatments for the sake of placebo-induced parental reassurance. So, as regular readers know, I have recently become a mum. As I mentioned in my last post*, I was...
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Summer reading
I am currently making the most of my maternity leave by swanning around Europe in a campervan for 6 months. I have been thinking about a couple of new blogs which I will try to publish shortly – but...
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Race for impact in the age of austerity
I have recently been pondering what the age of austerity means for the development community. One consequence which seems inevitable is increasing scrutiny of how development funds are spent. The...
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Impact via infiltration
Two blogs ago I linked to an article which I attributed to “the ever-sensible Michael Clements”. Shortly afterwards @m_clem tweeted: .@kirstyevidence compares @JustinSandefur to @jtimberlake —but me,...
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Guest post: Louise Shaxson on advising governments… and ugly babies
I have known Louise Shaxson for many years and have always valued her advice and insight. However, when she wrote to me recently to tell me that she had written a blog about how to talk to new parents...
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International development and the ‘f’ word
I’m not sure if I have mentioned it, but I am kinda into gender equity. Or, more precisely, I am a card-carrying, misogyny-hating, bra-burning*,...
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Jaded Aid – the sequel?
I’ve been a little bit delighted to see the publicity that the Jaded Aid card game has been generating (see for example this Foreign Policy write-up). Nothing is more loltastic for development workers...
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Holding decision makers to account for evidence use
Evidence-informed policy – it’s a wonderful thing. But just how widespread is it? The ‘Show your workings’ report from the Institute of Government (and collaborators Sense About Science and the...
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