Database seeks user-friendly cash

We are looking for funding to help us give the public access to our database of effective services, and to exploit its capacity to capture information across all dimensions of children’s health and development.
 

It also applies a high threshold of proof of impact and explains the logic that underpins the activity it describes.
 
In its present experimental form the database relies too much on guidance from Unit staff. Extra resources will also allow us to check entries, especially those relating to ineffective practice. Unusually, the database includes examples of programs proven not to work.
 
We want to devise clearer scoring mechanisms to indicate the impact of each programme on child outcomes and the strength of the supporting evidence, and we have aspirations to extend content to innovation from the global South.
 
The new site design will point to other sources of reliable evidence on what works, for whom, when and where, such as Blueprints, the Best Evidence Encyclopedia and the Campbell and Cochrane Collaborations.