Institute for Development Impact - I4DI Email Format
International Trade and DevelopmentDistrict of Columbia, United States11-50 Employees
The Institute for Development Impact (I4DI) operates in the international trade and development sector, focusing on rethinking how impact is measured and learned to inform investment decisions, operations, and organizational improvement. Based in Washington, DC, the organization engages with clients to design and implement monitoring, evaluation, and learning systems that support more effective development work across regions such as the UAE and East Africa. With a small to mid-sized team, I4DI collaborates with partners to translate data-driven insights into actionable learning for philanthropic and development portfolios. Recent activities illustrate the company's role in building monitoring and learning capabilities for diverse initiatives, including partnerships with Dubai Holding, Planet Partnerships, and Shell Foundation. These engagements reflect I4DI’s positioning within the field as a provider of evaluation and learning services that help organizations balance risks and rewards, advance circular economy finance, and assess program impact across multiple interventions. The firm has a history of collaboration with established partners to advance resilience, evaluation, and learning dashboards and to implement measurement frameworks in real-world development settings.