Rohini Pande, Charity Moore and Eric Dodge (Harvard Kennedy School) explain how bringing policymakers together with researchers to work more iteratively ensured that data from the world’s largest public works programme is accessible and relevant to  those who use it....

Update February 2016: A new version of the map is available here. Stephen Bediako (The Social Innovation Partnership) and Jonathan Breckon (the Alliance for Useful Evidence) would like your feedback on a new map of the UK...

  Daniel Schweppenstedde and Anne-Marie Reid  share a case study from the Childhood Development Initiative, demonstrating how evidence that an intervention is not effective can have a valuable purpose. The use of evidence for improving services is often thought...

  Howard White of the Campbell Collaboration believes arguments put forward by the Howard League’s Commission on English Prisons Today are undermined by the fact they missed the opportunity to cite the rigorous evidence that reducing the prison population will not...

  Catherine-Rose Stocks-Rankin shares her reflections on using Contribution Analysis to evaluate the impact of Iriss – an intermediary organisation with a focus on knowledge sharing, evidence-informed practice and innovation. What’s the question? Iriss aspires to support culture...

  The Alliance for Useful Evidence is committed to promoting useful evidence, and its use across the public, private and third sectors. As a part of its Evidence Exchange programme that champions knowledge sharing and learning...

  David Hounsell at The Children’s Society believes the charity sector isn’t doing enough to get impact support to the frontline practitioners who need it. Only by learning from practitioners and breaking down organisational silos can we...

  It’s surprising, given the relative absence of think tanks and research centres in Northern Ireland, that a local What Works Centre has not been set up to assist policy makers in this jurisdiction. Peter O’Neill, Northern...

Patrick Taylor shares what he’s learnt from implementing standards of evidence in Nesta’s Social Innovation Lab over the past year. I recently spoke at the Centre for Youth Impact’s Gathering on the use of evidence from a funder’s...