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Testing and showcasing ways that research can bring about change
Improving Adult Literacy in Niger Through Mobile Calls to Teachers
Outsourcing Primary Education in Liberia
Improving Early Childhood Education in Rural Bangladesh
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Maximising the Impact of Global Development Research
This report, by the Impact Initiative for International Development Research, provides an approach for brokering evidence across large research investments. It is based on six years of work undertaken by the Institute of Development Studies (IDS) and the REAL Centre based at the University of Cambridge, engaging with over 200 research projects funded by the ESRC-FCDO Strategic Partnership. It provides lessons and recommended practices for all those funding and designing social science research for development and seeking to maximise its impact beyond academia.
Celebrating the impact of the Raising Learning Outcomes in Education Systems Programme
Provides a snapshot of the impact achieved by the UK’s Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) and the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (FCDO) funded Raising Learning Outcomes in Education Systems Research Programme (RLO). It provides a reflection on the different types of impact that research projects have achieved to inform discussion and learning around impact pathways for both researcher and funders
Recipes for Impact - revised edition
This revised booklet profiles a selection of research funded by the ESRC-FCDO Strategic Partnership and the impact they have achieved. Impact stories show a snapshot of research and highlight the multiple, unique and surprising paths to achieving impact.
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Celebrating six years of the Impact Initiative
The Impact Initiative for International Development has maximized the impact of global development research through dialogue, synthesis and communications for six years. The programme has drawn to a close and the Impact Initiative team extends sincere thanks to the grantholders, research funders and partners that have made the initiative possible. This website will remain accessible and we hope that the resources, content and material available will continue to keep conversations about maximising research impact going in other spaces.