1. No more ‘Business as Usual’: Maximizing Government Impact through Learning Partnerships
Panel Session Evidence to Action Conference and Exhibition 2019

2. IDinsight helps leaders use data and evidence to combat poverty worldwide
Our vision is to change millions of lives by transforming how the social sector innovates, learns, and improves
Further description. That means being involved in the entire chain a policymaker might face: from helping innovate and develop new policies; test, evaluate, and learn about which policies actually work; to improving by taking action based on what the evidence says. We combine academic rigor with responsiveness to client needs in order to see lives transformed.
Photo: Farmer shells cashews in Andhra Pradesh, India. Credit: Nidhaan Jain.

3. OUR SERVICES ARE DEMAND-DRIVEN AND FOCUS ON IMPACT FIRST
Decision-focused evaluation
Process
evaluation
Monitoring
Machine
learning
Data
analytics
Program diagnosis & design support
Landscape & evidence review
Preference elicitation
Capacity
building
SERVICES
IDinsight started with the idea of taking a powerful but complex tool that had mostly been used by academics – rigorous impact evaluation – and tailoring it to the needs of decision-makers. In working closely with governments and nonprofits to identify and answer their most important questions, we realized the need to expand our toolkit to include other methods for evidence-based decision-making. While decision-focused evaluations (DFEs) are still our most common service, we've found that including a package of services in our projects can maximize our potential for impact.
Photo: ITNs survey team in Zambia. Credit: Jeff Steinberg.
Photo: ITNs survey team in Zambia. Credit: Jeff Steinberg.

4. we work ACROSS A RANGE OF sectors
Full list of sectors:
Agriculture
Animal Farming
Aquaculture
Cash Transfers
Digital Identity
Education
Energy
Environment
Finance
Financial Inclusion
Governance
Government Services
Health
Livelihoods
(Multi-sector)
Nutrition
Sanitation
Social Protection
WASH
Agriculture | Education | Energy | Financial Inclusion Governance | Health | Nutrition | Sanitation
Photo:Markeshaw Dessie, an IDinsight data collector (right) conducts a survey about asset ownership in Wogera district, Amhara, Ethiopia. Credit: Ali Hakim

5. Our Global REACH – projects and offices
IDinsight was founded in Since then, we have grown to more than 150 people.
Our work spans three continents and nine offices.
We also have IDinsight staff working long-term out of Accra, Ghana; Addis Ababa, Ethiopia; Lilongwe, Malawi.
Our largest office is Delhi, with nearly 60 people.
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Offices: Dakar, Johannesburg, Lusaka, Manila, Nairobi, New Delhi, San Francisco, Washington DC

6. governments face challenges in using data and evidence to inform policy
Dynamic and urgent decision-making environment
Strong interest in data and evidence for decision-making
Mismatch between demand for and supply of evidence
Lack of in-house capacity to generate evidence
Need for new approach
Government decisions are often made fast
Strong interest in using data and evidence for decision-making
Mismatch between demand for evidence, and supply of evidence
Traditional timelines for generating evidence are often too slow
Traditional arms-length approaches to evidence generation can be limited by a lack of contextual knowledge
Sometimes the in-house capacity to generate evidence is unavailable or insufficient/weak

7. Learning partnerships aim to address these challenges
Responsive, embedded team
Wide range of M&E tools
Learning Partnerships
Evidence generation within constraints
Build capacity and culture for data and evidence
Imbedded team available to respond to decision-relevant evidence needs as they arise
Make available a range of tools for responding to decision-makers’ questions
Tailor evidence generation to operational, political, time, etc. constraints of governments
Build capacity and a culture to use data and evidence.

8. IDinsight learning partnerships
Malawi
Ministry of Gender, Children, Disability and Social Welfare
Ghana
Ministry of Monitoring and Evaluation
Learning Partnership with the Ministry of Interior of Morocco their efforts related to *Phase III of the National Initiative for Human Development*!
Program 3: Including youths in the labor force and improving their revenue**• Program 4: Improving the human capital development of upcoming generations*
IDinsight was contracted directly by the Ministry of Interior* (another first for IDinsight!) *to support the implementation of Program 3 and Program 4* for an initial phase (phase d’«Inception ») for a duration of 13 weeks.
The Ministry of Interior helps coordinate all the different public and private actors involved in the implementation of the INDH in rural areas and is also responsible for monitoring and evaluating progress across the different programs.
Zambia
Ministry of Community Development and Social Services
Morocco
Ministry of Interior

9. Panelists Andrew Asibey, Senior Technical Advisor to Minister
Ministry of Monitoring and Evaluation, Government of Ghana
Laurent Kansinjiro, Deputy Director
Social Cash Transfer Program (SCTP), Ministry of Gender, Children, Disability and Social Welfare, Government of Malawi
Maxwell Oteng, Associate Director
IDinsight, Ghana
Martin Gould, Senior Manager
IDinsight, Malawi