Using evidence in humanitarian decision-making

Speaker: Sheree Bennett, senior research and evidence advisor, International Rescue Committee (IRC)
Time: 12.45– 14.00 GMT
Venue: John Snow Lecture Theatre, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, Keppel Street, WC1E 7HT

 

Start Date: 29 January 2020 End Date: 29 January 2020

IRC has made a commitment for 100 percent of its interventions to become evidence-based or evidence-generating in all its programming by 2020. To achieve this, IRC undertook an extensive program of evidence mapping to develop the Outcomes to Evidence Framework (OEF), a tool that clearly defines the outcomes IRC aims to achieve and corresponding pathways or theories of change and synthesises the evidence for what works to achieve these targeted outcomes. This talk will focus on the OEF and other efforts to increase the use of evidence, the challenges and successes experienced to date and lessons for other agencies wishing to adopt a more evidence-based approach.

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