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    UKES2026

    Sheffield, UK
    18 – 21 May 2026

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Building What Works: Evaluation insights from King’s College London’s K+ widening participation programme.   
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Building an Impact Culture from the Ground Up: A Case Study from a Global Food Awareness Charity   
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Title: Strengthening Community-Based Development through Faith-Informed Evaluation Practices in Rural Rwanda   
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A Failure of Relationships! Do we need a Relational Approach to Evaluation?   
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Making Homes Happen - lessons from the first five years of Homes England's Evaluation Programme   
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Beyond One-Size-Fits-All: Using Rapid Evaluation to Develop Housing Policy   
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Education for Seriti: A Critical-Realist and Tswana-Centric Capabilities Evaluation of Botswana's Top Achievers Scholarship Programme    
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Evaluating Long-Acting Injectable Buprenorphine in a Rural and Coastal Opioid Treatment Services: A Mixed-Methods Approach in Cornwall, England   
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Three practical strategies for translating evaluation into action   
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Co-Creating Evaluation Cultures: Creative Methods and Policy Insights from the Into the Light place-based cultural programme in County Durham   
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Navigating Evaluation: Strategies for Building an Evaluation Culture in Complex Organisations   
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Real time evaluation of an End of Life partnership between Marie Curie and University Hospitals Plymouth ICB   
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Everyone’s invited: growing shared outcomes into evaluation culture   
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We read it, we filed it, we forgot it   
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How does youth engagement inform local government decision-making? Insights from a local council in England   
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Commissioning Better (Evaluation) Outcomes: How to build an effective evaluation culture in a 12-year evaluation    
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Bridging Theory and Practice: The Evolution of Federal Evaluation Policy in Canada    
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From brush strokes to bold strokes: how a portfolio evaluation can draw out lessons from influencing efforts   
T0030


From paper to practice: turning sustainability concepts into evaluation.    
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Building an evaluation culture: Embedding learning in Mercy Corps’ GIRL-H programme for adolescent girls   
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From Theory to Contribution: Adapting Evaluation to Reflect Complexity in a Partnership-Based Programme   
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Evaluating the Targeted Lung Health Check Programme: building the real-world case for change for lung cancer screening   
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From tactic to treaty… Theories of Change for influencing and diplomacy interventions.   
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Outcome Harvesting in Action: Evaluation of AHRC's Follow-on Funding Scheme   
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From fragmentation to coherence: rethinking MEL assessments    
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Embedding Strategic Evaluation in a Mayoral Combined Authority: Developing an Outcomes Framework for West Yorkshire   
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Bridging Evidence and Action: A "Principled Adequacy for Purpose" Framework for Methods Selection   
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From evidence to influence - a case from the Caribbean and the evidence fund   
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How does capability, capacity, and consciousness in whole system place based working develop: A physical activity realist stakeholder analysis   
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Building Evaluation Cultures through Participatory Micro-RCTs and Story-Led Evidence   
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Embedding Feminist Evaluation Cultures in Climate Governance: Insights from Kenya, Nigeria & Pakistan   
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Evaluability assessment as a tool for evidencing impact for global advocacy for humane dog population management    
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ReAct: Embedding evaluation to create real-time change   
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What stops evaluation from driving change? Reflections on practice and opportunities for action    
T0057


Exploring the Intersection of Evaluation Policy and Capacity Building: Insights from the Canadian Federal Context   
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Influencing policy & commissioning through evaluating the real value of care   
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How can we use systemic, feminist, decolonial and humanising approaches when working with thousands of microstories on a shoestring and short turnaround? Join this session for a practical example.    
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What foundations are needed to facilitate a culture where community stakeholders collaborate to do evaluation to support their learning, inform local practice, and fulfil accountability requirements.   
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Changing systems, changing mindsets: embedding evidence-based leadership in local systems. Lessons from the Changemakers Implementation and Process Evaluation.    
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Getting evaluation evidence into use: the role of evidence-based decision-making products   
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Adapting realist and participatory approaches to evaluate a multi-faceted intervention in communities affected by podoconiosis in rural Ethiopia   
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Bridging the gap between academic research and actionable insights through a collaborative PhD Programme focusing on innovative skills research and researcher development.    
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Using the realist evaluation approach to challenge programme assumptions and promote stakeholder learning: A case of a health research capacity strengthening programme   
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The Nourish school food improvement programme: connecting frontline and evaluation teams through adaptive evaluation   
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Influence in action: putting young people at the heart of Careers Policy.    
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Introduction to EvalC3 online   
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Is It Worth Evaluating the Construction Phase of Major Scientific Infrastructure? Insights from the National Satellite Test Facility.   
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Building the plane whilst learning to fly: The highs and lows of evaluating Bradford 2025 UK City of Culture   
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Measuring what matters: A co-production approach to peer support evaluation    
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Inspiring a Sector: how evaluation informs action to help the nation be more active    
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Implementing an evaluation culture in a research team   
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The “equity knot”: Negotiating equity in participatory evaluation of systems change   
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Festivals with Benefits   
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The ACCESS Guiding Principles Framework: The role of reflection and evaluation in enacting sustainable, inclusive and co-productive research cultures   
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What if we’re wrong? Using hypothesis testing to support reflection, test assumptions and learn lessons in digital democracy support.    
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Piloting collaborative evaluation approaches in the ‘Fashion Practices for Social Change’ unit at LCF: Making space for staff and student voice in evaluation for the purpose of curriculum development   
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Bridging the gap between evidence and policy: driving accountability via Evidence-to-Action workshops   
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Shaping the Tech for Better Care Programme through developmental evaluation: harnessing evidence in complex systems for timely decision making and learning.    
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Why are summer learning programmes important for vulnerable students? Understanding programme impacts through drawings and stories of ‘Most Significant Change’   
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Evaluating innovation to influence policy and economic opportunities for the UK - learning from Connected Places Catapult evaluation and learning partnership   
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Creating Evidence-Ready Teams: Lessons from Pause & Reflect Practice Across Humanitarian and Development Programs    
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Developing digital tools to support evaluation in higher education   
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Building an evaluation culture through portfolio-level evaluation: Lessons learned in embedding evaluation across organisations   
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Using a test and learn approach to developing and evaluating Building Choices, the new HMPPS Accredited Offending Behaviour Programme   
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The value of visual metaphor in critically reflecting on how inequalities take shape within evaluation practice: A qualitative study with health system actors in England   
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Communicating complex multi-country evaluations: lessons from the UK International Climate Finance portfolio   
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Understanding Attendance: Building the Bridge from Evaluation to Action    
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Developing Evaluation Triangles: A Visual Representation of a Systems-Based Approach to Evaluating Marine Plan Objectives and Policy Effectiveness    
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Interrogating epistemic roots in evaluation research and the implications of alternatives for evaluation design and delivery    
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Stories of Change: Using hindsight in form of a Letter to Your Younger Self to understand the learning of leaders implementing a wholes systems approach   
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Improving Value for Money through economic evaluation at scale and sharing cost data as a public good   
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Empowering participatory evaluation – Building the evaluative culture at the Media School, University of the Arts London.   
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Mapping evidence for better decisions: An introduction to EGMs   
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Powering government through evaluation capability    
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Closing the Evidence-Action Gap: Iterative Evaluation in a SEL Sports Program for Children   
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Participatory approaches: Using Ripple Effects Mapping to evaluate a local authority research training programme   
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From Data to Action: Using Longitudinal Physician Wellness Data to Shape Health Policy in Canada   
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Tracing Contribution: Lessons from Applying Contribution Analysis in Energy and Environment Policy Evaluations   
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Building evaluation cultures through participatory, user-led methods: Lessons from applying PVMSC in the Healthy Cities for Adolescents programme   
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Towards Universal Metrics & KPIs: Exploring their development and use for objectives setting & evaluation   
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Beyond utility: Why good evaluations don't get used: How to use influence to stop wasting money and close the gap between evaluation quality and organisational change.   
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Evidence in search of an audience: Telling the tale so it gets heard    
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Lens of Change: How Young People’s Photos and Drawings Are Humanising Evaluation in Ghana, Mali and Senegal   
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Tracking What Works: EEF’s Approaches to Longitudinal Evaluation   
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Evaluating from Within: Learning What It Takes to Embed Evaluation Across a System   
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The Unsteady Pulse of Evidence: Two Decades of Navigating Politics, Administration, and Donor Dynamics to Build a Government Monitoring and Evaluation System in Uganda   
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Strengthening evidence-informed policy in fragile contexts: insights from Ukraine’s national evaluation system   
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Driving impact: Delivering timely, actionable evaluation insights for adaptive programme design – lessons from interim evaluation of DSIT’s 5G Innovation Regions Programme   
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How Can We Capture ‘Transformational Change’? Turning the UK’s ICF KPI 15 Framework into a Tool for Transformative Action   
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Evaluating Equity: Building a Learning and Evidence Culture in a Volunteer-Led Widening Participation Charity   
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Bridging the Gap Between Different Strata of Evaluation   
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Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning in Complex Climate-Health Systems: Insights from PAICE    
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From influence to implementation: contribution analysis of PLANE’s policy support for systemic education reform in Nigeria (2023–2025)   
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Mapping the Network That Supports Suffolk's Physical Activity Participation: A Participatory and AI-Assisted Approach to Network Analysis   
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From Evaluation to Action: Integrating Service Design to Enhance Breast Cancer Care   
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Putting the Apprentice Voice at the heart of delivery: the impact of the Provider Benchmarking tool on continuously improving training delivery in Scotland.   
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Shaping global, regional and national responses to strengthening AMR surveillance through formative evaluation   
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Sharing insights from the Transforming UK Food Systems Programme: how visually engaging, collaborative toolkits can connect evaluation to developing pathways to impact   
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Causal mapping in action: evaluative visualisations    
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Adopting new approaches in health and care evaluation: shifting from systems thinking to systems ‘doing’   
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Using the Tool for Agroecology Performance Evaluation (TAPE) to inform and support programme delivery – perspectives from implementing organisations and research   
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The utility of stakeholder engagement in developing a robust theory of change for Social Return on Investment (SROI) evaluation   
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From Evaluation to Evolution: How a Learning Partnership Approach Helped Refine a Children and Young People’s Social Prescribing Programme.    
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Evidence-Informed Evaluation Framework for Sustainability Interventions: A Co-Design Experience in Brazilian Municipalities   
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Real-Time Improvement in Acute Care Settings: applying the Implementation Research Logic Model and Theoretical Domains Framework within the developmental evaluation of a suicide prevention pathway    
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From complexity to clarity: making economic evaluation work for local mental health funding   
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Co-Producing or Performing Societal Impact? A Typology of University-Stakeholder Interactions   
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Theory of change for action: Drawing together automation, real-time reporting and baked goods to allow all stakeholders to reap the rewards of theory-based evaluation approaches   
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Peer Evaluation of the ‘Collaboration Kickstarter’: co-producing an evidence base for research culture change through participatory grant making   
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The role of a Learning Implementation Partner in supporting vocational education and training (VET) providers to integrate evidence into programme design and delivery    
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Influencing the World Resources Institute (WRI) policy and programming through strategic evaluation   
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From Evidence to Action: Strategic and operational change in working in fragile contexts of Sahel West Africa and dry corridor countries in Latin America, through evaluative evidence   
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Using evaluation as a developmental tool: Findings and lessons from a feasibility study of the Restart programme    
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Evaluating Complexity in Sport and Physical Activity   
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Redefining Evaluation Success: Introducing the CUTE Framework (Credibility, Usefulness, Timeliness, Efficiency)   
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Embedding evaluation: Insights on evaluation of public participation processes.    
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Evaluation at the Heart of Digital Interventions in the Department for Business and Trade   
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Building Capacity for AI and Evaluation in Homelessness Prevention: Early Insights from Two Randomised Controlled Trials   
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Changing the goal posts: evaluation as a catalyst for policy innovation in place-based systemic approaches to tackle physical activity inequalities   
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Human-in-the-loop evaluations: myth-busting and setting realistic expectations on how AI can be used in evaluations.    
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MEL Systems Reviews for Humanitarian Portfolios   
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“Well, if I were you, I wouldn’t start from here”: The role of evidence and learning partnerships in building evaluative cultures    
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From Insight to Action: Embedding Learning and Evidence in Everyday Decisions   
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Evaluating the Public Sector Decarbonisation Scheme – Lessons for Policy and Programme Adaptation   
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How Continuous Monitoring Drives Adoption and Scale-Up of Digital ID in Routine Immunisation: Lessons from Ghana    
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Portoli-OMG! Reflections and learning from evaluating mega-portfolios   
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Bridging Evidence into Action: Embedding an Evaluation Culture through an Organisation-wide Evaluation Champions Network    
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Looking Backwards and Forwards – How Evaluation and Futures Thinking Shaped Natural England’s new Science Strategy   
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Harnessing AI for Education Evaluation: Insights from Commissioning and Practice   
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Turning Evidence into Action: Management Responses in UN Evaluations as Mechanisms of Organizational Learning, Accountability, and Policy Influence    
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Evidence into Action: Evaluation to inform practice and adaptation in a play-based learning education programme   
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A shared journey: practical approaches to community-centred and inclusive evaluation to help turn evidence into action   
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Safe by design: how evaluation evidence is rewiring education policy and practice to prevent youth violence   
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Embedding Evaluation Culture In A Time of Uncertain Funding Future   
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Rethinking housing policy: strategic evaluation for real-world impact   
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Smartness does not Mean Sustainability: Evidence from evaluating Brazilian Cities Through Smart City Rankings and SDG Indicators   
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From Evaluation to Action: Early Insights from the Refugee Employability Programme in England   
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Shifting the Power! Lessons from Youth Evaluation Teams in Ecuador, Ghana and Senegal    
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Communicating Evaluation for Action: Turning Evidence into Life-Saving Practice   
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From Interviews to Action: Outcome Harvesting with AI Interviewers    
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Meaningful engagement as a path to building sustainable evaluation cultures: Insights from evaluating targeted youth interventions in England    
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Strengthening a Culture of Evaluation in Welsh Government: Building Capacity, Confidence, and Connection   
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From evaluation to embedded learning: building cultures of reflection and trust   
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Bridging the gap between quali and quanti: using Qualitative Comparative Analysis QCA with survey data to identify successful pathways in a large population for the Behaviour Hubs programme evaluation   
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Communicating Evaluation Results: Inclusive Health & Rehabilitation Services for Persons with Disabilities (PwDs) in Chhattisgarh, India - A Case Illustration.   
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Societal impact research evaluation: discussing the implications of Global North vs Global South contextual differences   
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Evaluation: toward harmonized terminology and typologies   
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Building evaluation cultures across the VCSE   
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Embedding evaluation in a complex multi-sector knowledge network: Learning from the Network to Reduce Gambling Harms   
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#ChangeBusters: Using game-based pedagogy to build evaluation capacity and cultures in UK higher Education organisations.   
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From Evaluation to Impact: Innovation, Adaptive Learning and Evidence-based Action in the DBI Programme   
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Co-creating trust: Aligning evaluation expectations in high-stakes policy reform   
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Co-Creating an Evaluation Culture: Navigating Power, Participation, and Adaptation in Complex Systems   
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How changing policy scenarios will redefine evaluation use and its connection to policy action   
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Holding space for learning: Embedding evaluation cultures through reflective practice   
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Making Evaluations Matter: Evaluator and Commissioner Perspectives on Shaping Policy and Practice in Kosovo   
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Beyond Metrics? Participatory and creative evaluation-to-policy impacts for climate resilience and policy influence   
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Strengthening Collaboration Across Services: Learning from Research on Multiple Disadvantage   
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Causal Mapping in Practice: 40-minute hands-on with Causal Map 4   
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Breaking New Ground: Ethical and Robust Evaluation of Domestic Abuse Recovery Services for Children   
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Reimagining Evaluation Consulting: The Case for Learning Partnerships in Education and Youth Services   
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Scaling Automated Programmatic and Global Aggregated Indicator Targets vs Actuals Reporting: Turning Real-Time Evaluation Data into Timely, Actionable Insights through MEL Technologies   
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From Insight to Impact: How the M&E Hub in DESNZ is embedding Evaluation for Action    
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"From evidence to implementation: Using Realist Evaluation to address professional resistance to Contingency Management in NHS Addiction services"   
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Exploring Participatory and Co-creation Methods for longitudinal evaluations in collaborative RDI contexts: unpacking mechanisms of collaborative value creation and collaborative capital building    
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Adaptive evaluation in action: evaluating UK SHORE for the Department of Transport   
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From Silos to Synergy: How Collaboration Built Co-op Foundation’s Evaluation Culture   
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Strengthening Evaluation Capacity in Africa: Evidence from AGDEN’s Multi-Country Tracer Study on Gender-Responsive and Human-Rights–Based Evaluation Practice   
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Developmental Evaluation as a Catalyst for Systemic Change: Lessons from Climate and Social Justice Programming    
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From complexity to confidence: practical approaches to engaging stakeholders in a theory-based contribution tracing evaluation   
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From Verification to Value: Making Third-Party Monitoring Evidence Evaluation-Ready (Lessons from Myanmar)   
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AI in Evaluation: Learn Tools and Workflows from UN Case Studies with >90% Validated Accuracy   
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Evaluating Equalities impacts of FCDO Programming in Somalia: Evidence to Inform Adaptive Programming Under Policy Shifts and Reduced ODA Funding   
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Evaluating for Scale: Scalability Assessments for Decision Makers   
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