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3ie’s Development Evidence Portal: Value for money in a time of resource uncertainty

To respond to a rapidly-changing global context, the evaluation community needs to adapt its methods and approaches, according to an expert panel assembled by the World Bank’s Independent Evaluation Group (IEG).

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How to communicate a null-results impact evaluation

Development programs aim to improve outcomes for poor and vulnerable populations, from better health and increased learning to higher productivity and incomes. Impact evaluations apply research tools to assess whether those intended outcomes were achieved because of the program.

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Insights from the Development Evidence Portal – the Middle East and North Africa

Insights from the Development Evidence Portal – the Middle East and North Africa

Our latest piece in the ‘state of the evidence’ series – which interprets data by unpacking the studies in our Development Evidence Portal (DEP) – focuses on the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region. . The DEP currently includes 740 impact evaluations (IE) and 352 systematic reviews (SR) from the region, which is the second smallest amongst regions containing low- and middle-income…

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Sustainable Evidence Infrastructure Commitment
18 February 2026
Birte Snilstveit
Birte Snilstveit
Marie Gaarder
Marie Gaarder
Carson Christiano
Carson Christiano
Jo-Weech-blog_author
Jo Weech 1+
 

How will we ever learn? Towards a sustainable evidence infrastructure

The International Initiative for Impact Evaluation (3ie) and the Berkeley Initiative for Transparency in the Social Sciences (BITSS) team at CEGA share the lessons they have learned when it comes to…
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Updates to the irregular migration evidence gap map and implications for policy and research
13 February 2026
Sanghwa Lee
Sanghwa Lee
Maria Daniela Anda Leon
Maria Daniela Anda Leon
Pierre Marion
Pierre Marion
Shannon Shisler
Shannon Shisler
Carolyn Huang
Carolyn Huang
Anil Thota
Anil Thota 3+
 

Updates to the irregular migration evidence gap map and implications for policy and research

Policymakers, researchers and practitioners now have access to the most up-to-date rigorous evidence base on interventions addressing root causes and drivers of irregular migration, a field in which…
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05 January 2026
Abhinav Dubey
Abhinav Dubey +
 

What indices fail to tell us: Food hygiene and dietary shift among rural women in Rajasthan

3ie’s multi-year evaluation of one of the world’s largest poverty-alleviation programs, i.e. India’s Deendayal Antyodaya Yojana-National Rural Livelihoods Mission (DAY-NRLM), has generated rich…
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For Illustrative purpose only
18 December 2025
Angella Lisa Matthew
Angella Lisa Mathew
Shreya Banerjee
Shreya Banerjee
Sunetra Banerjee
Sunetra Banerjee +
 

Women's journey from the kitchen to the community spaces in rural India

3ie’s multi-year evaluation of one of the world’s largest poverty-alleviation programs, i.e. India’s Deendayal Antyodaya Yojana-National Rural Livelihoods Mission (DAY-NRLM), has generated rich…
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West African Development Bank headquarters in Lomé
10 December 2025
Anca Dumitrescu
Anca Dumitrescu
Paul-Thissen
Paul Thissen +
 

Pourquoi les partenariats à long terme sont importants pour le développement : perspectives issues de la collaboration…

Les gouvernements sont confrontés à des défis de plus en plus complexes : insécurité alimentaire, chocs climatiques, exigences croissantes en matière de redevabilité, etc. Pour prendre des décisions…
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