Itad are a specialist monitoring and evaluation (M&E) agency, working with iDSI to develop a monitoring, evaluation and learning (MEL) framework based on the Theory of Change. This work builds on Itad’s earlier evaluation of NI’s engagement in India and China under the Health Partnerships Scheme (2012-2014). The report confirmed this work was supporting steady incremental progress towards stronger health policies.

The MEL framework will capture the early changes that iDSI expects to see (based on the assumptions underlying its theory of change), before improved institutions, decision making and policy implementation emerge. This will allow iDSI to demonstrate with confidence the shorter-term progress towards our longer-term aims.