Edward Hedley

Background

About Edward Hedley

I am a Principal Consultant in the Inclusive Growth and Climate Change practice at Itad, leading monitoring, evaluation and learning across the themes of inclusive market development, impact investing and sustainability. I lead our practice's knowledge strategy which supports our consultants to learn from each other and share their experiences and expertise on what works and why with our clients and external audiences. I am passionate about supporting clients to maximise their impact, especially in the fields of sustainable finance, social business and systems thinking. These clients include Development Finance Institutions (DFIs), Foundations, Impact Investors and Government Agencies. My recent assignments include supporting British International Investment (BII) to assess impact in its infrastructure portfolio, FMO to improve the use of a landscape approach to identify bankable projects and the Dutch Enterprise Agency to apply systems thinking in its programming. I was also recently Team Leader for an endline evaluation of the Mastercard Foundation's DYNAMIC programme in Uganda, which looked at the extent to which the programme was able to increase job opportunities, income and resilience for out-of-school youth in Northern Uganda. My technical expertise includes the design and implementation of evaluations, M&E frameworks and Value for Money (VfM) systems. I am experienced in a wide range of evaluation approaches, including quasi-experimental methods and theory-based approaches including Contributions Analysis and Realist Evaluation.