Publications

Evaluation of the Global Challenges Research Fund

2023 with Isabel Vogel, Catrin Hepworth & Cagla Stevenson. Government of the UK, Department for Science, Innovation, and Technology.

Assessment of research quality, positioning for use and results.

Impact Evaluation of the Research for Health in Humanitarian Crises (R2HC) Programme

2023 with Anna Paterson. Elrha.

Challenges and Opportunities for Improving Coordination between Multilateral Institutions and Philanthropies

2023 with Geci Karuri-Sebina and Frederick Beckley. Chapter 13 in African Philanthropy: Philanthropic Responses to Covid-19 and Development Goals in Africa, B Moyo, editor. Cheltenham UK: Edward Elgar Publishing.

Back to the Future: Are we trapped in our past?

2023 Evaluation and Program Planning, special issue on theories of change. 97, April 2023.

Evaluating the quality of research co-production: Research Quality Plus for Co-Production (RQ+ 4 Co-Pro)

2023 Robert K.D. McLean, Fred Carden, et al. Health Research Policy and Systems. 21, 51

Evaluating research co-production: protocol for the Research Quality Plus for Co-Production (RQ+ 4 Co-Pro) framework

2022 Journal: Implementation Science Communication. DOI: 10.1186/s43058-022-00265-7

Improving WHO's understanding of WHO guideline uptake and use in Member States: A scoping review

2022 With Kiran Saluja, K. Srikanth Reddy, et al. Health Research Policy & Systems. 20(98).

From knowing to doing: evidence use in the humanitarian sector

2021 Authors: Carden, F., Hanley, T., Paterson, A. Publisher © Elrha 2021.

State Capability, Policymaking and the Fourth Industrial Revolution: Do knowledge systems matter?

2019 With A Pellini, V Weyrauch and M Malho. Discussion paper by Capability, Demos Helsinki, Helvetas, Politics & Ideas, Southern Voice, Using Evidence and UNESCO Montevideo.

Informing Advocacy and Communications Capacity Building Efforts: A Robust and Culturally Responsive Tool for Assessment

2019 Prepared for the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation by: Anne Gienapp, ORS Impact; Fred Carden, Using Evidence; Janet Sawaya, Sawaya Consulting; Rosie Emerson, The Khana Group

Informing policy with agricultural R&D evidence: An ASTI pilot project in Ethiopia, Nigeria, and Tanzania

2019 IFPRI Discussion Paper 01860. Carden, Fred; Beintema, Nienke M.; et al.

Strengthening Research Institutions: Learning From Doing

2019 with Assefa Admassie, Abdoulaye Diagne, Adeboyo Olukoshi and Chukwuka Onyekwena. Using Evidence Working Paper.

Policy and Causality: A learning approach

2018 Knowledge Sector Initiative.

How do You Evaluate a Mental Revolution? Wicked Problems and Economic Development in Indonesia

2017 Working Paper 22. Knowledge Sector Initiative.

Building Evaluation Capacity to Address Problems of Equity

2017 in Sridharan, S., Zhao, K. and Nakaima, A. (eds.), Building Capacities to Evaluate Health Inequities: Some Lessons Learned from Evaluation Experiments in China, India and Chile. New Directions for Evaluation, 154: 115-125.

Reflections on Academies and Science Advice

2016 KSI Working Paper 13. Knowledge Sector Initiative.

Knowledge and Competitiveness in Indonesia

2015 With Budiati Prasetiamartati and J. Ascroft. Strategic Review. Jan-March 2015.

Evaluation, Not Development Evaluation

2013 American Journal of Evaluation. 34: 4. Pp. 576-579.

Walking Gently: Some cautions in developing a procedural view of knowledge

2012 Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health. doi: 10.1136/jech-2012-201059.

Asking Questions in the Solution Space: Methodological issues in evaluating equity

2012 in Journal of Evaluation and Program Planning. doi: 10.1016/j.evalprogplan.2012.01.010.

Impact Evaluation for Improving Development: Rethinking, reshaping and reforming

2011 with P. Rogers, D. Bonbright, S. Earl, Z. Ofir, S. Khagram & N. MacPherson. Rockefeller Foundation.

Development is not an intervention: methodological issues in development evaluation

2010 Presentation at the Virtual Conference on Methodology in Programme Evaluation, Wits Programme Evaluation Group, University of Witswatersrand, South Africa.

Understanding Influence: The episode studies approach

2009 in The Politics of Trade: The Role of Research in Trade Policy and Negotiation. Ed. Diana Tussie. Dordrecht, Leiden, Boston: Brill.