Evaluations – the process of collecting and synthesising information or evidence – have become the standard currency of development. But while evaluations are conducted on programmes largely carried out in the global south, the evaluators who carry them out tend … Continued
In 2020, over 155 million people listened to a podcast every week. Academics and research organisations, encouraged by the potential of this large audience, have started to pay attention to this new channel of communication. CommsConsult is a huge fan of audio. So we … Continued
Working with organisations to evaluate the impact of their communication and media initiatives is at the core of what we do at CommsConsult. In 2018, Thomson Reuters Foundation (TRF) commissioned CommsConsult to carry out an evaluation of the ‘Advancing Media … Continued
CommsConsult was happy to support another IDRC research programme with a ‘rapid assessment’ of its research uptake approach. Our collaboration on the Growth and Economic Opportunities for Women (GrOW) programme was especially resonant for a company founded and run by two … Continued
CommsConsult’s Director, Megan Lloyd-Laney, has her bags packed and will be travelling to Kenya this week – abandoning the usual train journey ‘up country’ across the picturesque but vulnerable Dawlish stretch of track and choosing instead the short plane hop … Continued
CommsConsult, as part of a consultancy team contracted by IMC has successfully won the contract to evaluate DFID’s portfolio of programmes to end violence against women and girls (VAWG). ‘What Works’, an ambitious attempt to combat the pervasive problem of violence … Continued
Last year was a great one for CommsConsult. But, boy, it was exhausting! We carried out over a dozen projects including our first for a UK academic market; worked in contexts both familiar (Zimbabwe, Kenya, Egypt) and new (Pakistan, Indonesia, … Continued
CommsConsult has worked with GDNet and Euforic Services for nearly four years to deliver a suite of policy engagement workshops for Africa Economic Research Consortium (AERC) researchers. Currently in Nairobi, the team met a new cadre of African economics researchers from … Continued
I love workshops that begin with people telling me that they don’t really have the time to be there, and finish with them asking me to ‘make it longer next time please’. I’m on my way home from New Delhi, where … Continued
Here at CommsConsult, we’re game to take on most challenges…For the second year in a row, we were asked to run a Simulation Exercise for keen first-year journalism students at our local University*. The purpose of the exercise is to introduce rookie journalists … Continued