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• Gaming the wait

• Task Shifting of HIV Screening in Sex Worker Communities

• From Designing and Implementing impact evaluations

  Impact evaluations are now a part and parcel of international development grants.

• Why care for robust secondary data

  Choice of research methodology is largely determined by the research questions -- what we want to find out, and what will help us do that best. But practical considerations such as the availability of resources (including the type of data available and the knowledge and skills of the persons undertaking the research) also influence the method we choose to employ.

• Measuring the Immeasurable

  Why is the sky blue? What are black holes? How did the world begin? Familiar questions to many parents. Curiosity plays a fundamental role in learning. It keeps you wanting to explore the world and constantly ask questions.

• The importance of fit-for-purpose research design

  The principle that policies should be designed using the best available evidence is one that is difficult to contest.

• Using Evidence to Influence Program Design

  Breakthrough’s Early Marriage Campaign, implemented in three districts of the Indian States of Jharkhand and Bihar, aims to utilise a media (mass and community) programme that challenges existing norms around gender and sexuality, for discouraging the practice of early marriage.

• Creating Social Value

  As experts in social value assessment of business models, we support various corporates to monitor the social performance and assess the impact of their initiatives.The idea of social value is distinct from CSR, and is way broader.

• What Builds an Effective Information Exchange and Communication System for Disaster Response

  Calling information a “life-saving resource”, the World Disasters Report, 2005 noted: “Disaster-affected people need information as much as water, food, medicine or shelter: accurate, timely information can save lives.”

• Inclusive Business Models

  In India, around 70 percent to 90 percent of the rural households depend on agriculture and allied sector as their principal means of livelihood. Smallholder farmers constitute 80 percent of total farm households...