Who produced this EGM and Guidebook?
This EGM and Guidebook were produced by Giving Evidence and Global Development Network.
Giving Evidence works to make charitable giving more effective by encouraging and enabling charitable giving based on sound evidence. We advise donors and funders of all descriptions on many issues and in many sectors; and often pull together the existing research on a topic in order to support donors, funders, policy-makers and practitioners to make good decisions about allocating scarce resources.
Global Development Network is a public international organisation that supports high quality, policy-oriented, social science research in Low- and Middle- Income Countries (LMICs), to promote better lives. We promote research on the premise that contextualised and locally driven research leads to more informed policies, increased policy ownership, better informed implementation, and more sustainable and inclusive development choices. We also enable research capacity strengthening across countries and disciplines.
Who funded this EGM and Guidebook?
This EGM and Guidebook were produced with funding from Porticus.
Porticus is a philanthropic organisation that aims to create a just and sustainable future where human dignity flourishes. Our work aims to strengthen the resilience of communities so that all people have ownership over their future, and natural resources are used in a sustainable way. We realize our objectives through strong networks of partners including local and global NGOs, communities, people with lived experience, policy makers and co-funders.
The story of creating this Evidence and Gap Map and Guidebook about the rigorous ‘what works’ evidence on institutional responses to child abuse.
This story started with Porticus establishing a programme focused on strengthening institutional responses to child abuse. Porticus wanted to find out what evidence the broader community, including grantee partners, could draw on to indicate what is likely to succeed at that. Porticus commissioned Giving Evidence to produce an Evidence and Gap Map and Guidebook as a valuable source for faith based organisations and beyond.
First iteration, published 2020. The first iteration of this Evidence and Gap Map and Guidebook published during 2020. They included all relevant studies which we could find published before mid-2019.
There were 72 studies: 58 completed primary studies, 49 of them RCTs; three protocols for new primary studies, all RCTs; and 11 systematic reviews. Most of the included studies came from academic journals (found by searching the databases of them); only a handful came from non-academic literature such as practitioner organisations. That first Evidence and Gap Map was produced with the Centre for Evidence and Implementation, and the Guidebook produced with the Campbell Collaboration.
This second iteration, published 2023. We updated the EGM and Guidebook to include studies produced in the three years since the first iteration. There are many: the second iteration has nearly twice as many studies: 136 studies in total. Of these, 108 are complete primary studies (including 79 RCTs and 29 QEDs), 8 ongoing primary studies (study protocols) and 20 systematic reviews. This update was produced with Global Development Network. The graph here shows the increase in the rate of production of studies on this topic 🙂
