Full report about the Evidence and Gap Map (not the Guidebook: i.e., what evidence exists but not what it says).
52 pages, 2023.
Summary report about the evidence on the Evidence and Gap Map, and what that evidence says.
10 pages (plus definitions), 2023.
Article in Alliance Magazine by the funder (Porticus), Giving Evidence and others describes the Evidence and Gap Map and the Guidebook, the rationale for creating them, how Porticus uses them, and Porticus’ learning from its own daily work.
3 pages, March 2021.
Short report about how the evidence on the EGM aligns to activity within child protection. Giving Evidence explored finding data about activity in child protection (e.g., what schools are doing, governments, youth clubs etc.) and mapping it to the EGM frame – to identify where there is lots of activity but no evidence (=priority for new evidence) and areas of little activity but where the evidence is clear that something works (=areas to encourage more activity). Basically, that didn’t work because evidence about child protection activity is so scant (!)
16 pages (+ appendices), August 2020.
Academic paper about the first iteration of this Evidence and Gap Map, published by Campbell on Wiley.
38 pages (+ references), March 2021.
Blog post announcing a project to evaluate the strengths and limitations of the outcome measures (of children’s safety in organisations) used in studies on the EGM.
1 page, November 2023.
Webinar: by Giving Evidence and Porticus, hosted by the Campbell Collaboration in which we talked through: why the funder started this, how we made the EGM, what it found, how we made the Guidebook, what that found, the interactive version of both, and what we are doing next. Plus questions from audience members.
90 minutes, 2021.
Meta-analysis of studies about the effectiveness of child sexual abuse prevention programmes on knowledge acquisition (academic paper)
(These studies are the most common ones on the map: they are in the populous cell. We found that all those studies show positive effects. Hence this meta-analysis finds “”The results reported a combined effect size considered large…”)
December 2023.