Simon Hearn

Overseas Development Institute | ODI · RAPID

This report presents the findings, analysis and insights from an evaluation of the International Development Research Centre’s (IDRC) 2015–2020 strategic objective to invest in ‘knowledge and innovation for large-scale positive change.’ The evaluation was undertaken by OTT Consulting in partnership with Southern Hemisphere. It is accompanied by fou...

Development is a multi-dimensional, imprecise concept. Initiatives that aim to improve development attempt to address entrenched economic and social issues, increasingly through multi-component programmes, involve diverse sets of stakeholders pursuing different, sometimes competing interests, and must adapt to shifting contexts. They operate under...

This assessment concept paper provides a methodological approach for the formative assessment and summative assessment of GIZ’s International Water Stewardship Programme (IWaSP) and its component partnerships. IWaSP promotes partnerships between the private sector (corporations and SMEs), the public sector and the society to tackle shared water ris...

New Horizons / New Challenges: evaluation of STI policies, instruments and organisations. Wien, Österreich. 14.-15.11.2013

Publish What You Pay (PWYP) is a global network of civil society organisations that are united in their call for an open and accountable extractive sector so that oil, gas and mining revenues improve the lives of women, men and youth in resource-rich countries. PWYP’s coalition ‘model’ is predicated on a belief that the coordinated, collective acti...

The aim of this paper is to create a publicly available resource that provides concise descriptions of selected infoDev ICT-for-development projects and their impact on poverty. The paper first presents case studies of a cross-section of projects funded by the infoDev Core Program, followed by an in-depth analysis of the impact and limits of those...

This programme of work built on nine months of influential work by DFID’s Growth and Investment Group on the enabling environment for mobile banking and was a direct response to the recommendations of the resultant report: “Mobile banking – knowledge map and possible donor support strategies.” At the start of this programme the use of a mobile phon...