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3ie announced its first round grants of US$4.3 million for better evidence and development effectiveness

Delhi, June 16, 2009 – The International Initiative for Impact Evaluation (3ie) announced today the results from its first round of funding for impact evidence. Eighteen high quality impact evaluations have been selected under the 3ie open window, with more than half of the funded projects being in Africa. 

“Critical to keeping the G8 promise of boosting aid by $50 billion by 2010, is the need for better evidence on what works, what does not work and why. While millions are being pledged each year, it is quite alarming to see that we have learned very little when it comes to evaluating the real impact of most anti-poverty interventions,” said Howard White, Executive Director of 3ie. 

“With the current economic crisis, it has become even more urgent to get value for money. Financing high-quality impact evaluations and campaigns to inform better program and policy design in developing countries will be crucial to ensure this,” he added. 

The selected research projects present rigorous evaluation designs to track the impact of technology, in-kind and financial incentives, and the level of community participation on the effectiveness of interventions in education, health, agriculture, social protection, and environmental sectors. These also include the appraisal of two national flagship programs in Mexico and Mozambique focusing on access to child care and early childhood development services.   Read more



3ie’s mission is to contribute to the fulfillment of aspirations for wellbeing by encouraging the production and use of evidence from rigorous impact evaluations for policy decisions that improve social and economic development programs in low- and middle-income countries.




Impact evaluation in the news: 3ie Associate Member IPA featured in New York Times article on business services and microfinance

Issue 2 of the Journal of Development Effectiveness is out. It features:
- The impact of conditional cash transfer programmes on child nutrition: a review of evidence using a programme theory framework by Jef L. Leroy; Marie Ruel; Ellen Verhofstadt 
Impact of an aquaculture extension project in Bangladesh by John Rand; Finn Tarp
- The impact of a dairy intervention in rural India: evidence from realised outcomes and expected returns to investment by Britta Augsburg
- Assessing aid impact: a review of Norwegian evaluation practice by Espen Villanger; Alf Morten Jerve - Evaluating the impact of job training programmes in Latin America: evidence from IDB funded operations by Pablo Ibarrarán; David Rosas Shady
Click here to access issue 1 (free downloads)
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New 3ie working paper on "Theory-based Impact Evaluation"
by Howard White is now available online.
 

The new deadline for 3ie call for proposals to conduct synthetic reviews of social and economic development interventions in low and middle income countries is June 30th.
Read more and download the application form.

3ie Proposals Preparation Grants
can now be made at any time,
learn more. 
 


   
 


Evaluating impacts of microfinance interventions

 

In the Philippines, new findings show that individual liability as opposed to group liability to repay loans has no impact on loan repayment and is more profitable to the lender.

 

In India, a new evaluation of microcredit found that while access to microcredits had a positive impact on household expenditure and creating and expending businesses, it had no discernible effect on education, health or women’s empowerement.

 

However, another study in the Philippines found that access to credit leads to a shift towards female-oriented durables goods purchase by the household.




Randomized Controlled Trials: Questions, Answers and Musings by Alehandro R. Jadad, Murray W. Enkin, is a jargon free introduction of randomized controlled trials and their role in clinical decision-making.

 

 

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