This series of webinars was first presented at the Causal Pathways Symposium 2023, which focused on "connecting, learning, and building a shared understanding of the evaluation and participatory practices that make causal pathways more visible"
Fiona Remnant
Fiona is co-author of the QuIP, founder of Bath SDR and co-founder of Causal Map Ltd. Before moving into evaluation, Fiona's work focused on the application and communication of academic research to practitioners and policymakers - a passion she has taken into the generation and use of evidence in evaluation. She has worked for the Centre for Poverty Analysis in Sri Lanka, Oxfam in the UK, as well as in the Centre for Development Studies at the University of Bath where she worked with James Copestake on the Assessing Rural Transformations action research project, culminating in the development of the QuIP and the creation of Bath SDR.
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Resource
- This session of the Causal Pathways Symposium 2023, by Fiona Remnant and James Copestake, discusses QuIP, a non-experimental goal-free approach to impact evaluation that can map and analyze causal mechanisms.
- This study evaluates a program using Qualitative Impact Protocol (QuIP) and the Causal Map software to collect, code, analyze and visualise stories of change from participants.
- BSDR is a non-profit research organisation set up by the authors of the QuIP - a small team of researchers from the Centre for Development Studies (CDS) at the University of Bath - with the ambition to bring more research into practice.
- This freely available, online book brings together case studies using an impact evaluation approach, the Qualitative Impact Protocol (QUIP), without a control group that uses narrative causal statements elicited directly from intended
- This resource outlines how the Qualitative Impact Protocol (QuIP) compares to 30 other impact evaluation approaches.
- This discussion paper reviews how quantitative and qualitative processes are utilised in analysis and presentation of
Approach
- The Qualitative Impact Protocol (QuIP) is an impact evaluation approach that collects and documents narrative causal statements directly from those affected by an intervention.