Learning Days 1: EGAP-DFID Day of Learning July 2014
Topic: Learning and Knowledge Cumulation
Date: July 10, 2014
Venue: DFID, Whitehall 22
Agenda
1:35 – 1:50 PM | Opening Remarks – Penny Hawkins, Head of Evaluation, DFID / Anna Henttinen |
1:50 – 1:55 PM | Introduction to the topics covered (Macartan Humphreys) |
1:55 – 2:00 PM | DFID approach to synthesizing evidence (Dr. Kirsty Newman, Head of Evidence into Action Team, DFID) |
2:00 – 2:35 PM | I Cumulative Learning Dunning: EGAP’s approach to cumulation Comments from the field (Alyoscia d’Onofrio) |
2:35 – 3:05 PM | II Mechanisms Humphreys: New approaches to the identification of mechanisms |
3:05 – 3:45 PM | III Using mixed methods to cumulate learning Dunning: Mixed methods RCTs Humphreys: Going wide or going deep: Bayesian Integration of Qualitative and Quantitative methods |
3:45 – 4:00 PM | Discussion and next steps (Anna Henttinen, EvD) |