Presentations
Dhaka Colloquium For Systematic Reviews in
International Development,
Savar, Dhaka, December 10-14, 2012
Workshop Presentations
Day 1 - December 10th, 2012
The Science of Research Synthesis: The Evidence for Systematic Reviews (2.8 MB)
Julia H. Littell, Ph.D., Professor Graduate School of Social Work and Social Research Bryn Mawr College, Bryn Mawr, PA, USA
Is microfinance a solution to anything? Evidence from two systematic reviews (2.2 MB)
Ruth Stewart, Carina van Rooyen, Marcel Korth, Admire
Chereni, Natalie Rebelo da Silva, Thea de Wet, Centre for Anthropological
Research, University of Johannesburg
Formulating a clear question and determining the scope of a systematic review (618.6 KB)
Julia H. Littell, Ph.D., Professor Bryn Mawr College, Bryn Mawr, PA, USA
Searching the Literature John Eyers (241.4 KB)
John Eyers, 3ie IDCG
Day 2 - December 11th, 2012
Theory-based systematic reviews (755.7 KB)
Howard White, Executive Director, 3ie
Effect Size Calculation for experimental & quasi-experimental methods (1013.7 KB)
Jorge Garcia Hombrados & Hugh Waddington, 3ie
Day 3 - December 12th, 2012
3ie Matchmaking workshop for systematic reviews (447.4 KB)
Ami Bhavsar, Jo Puri, Phil Davies & Birte Snilstveit, 3ie
What influence do we want to have? (945.7 KB)
Christelle Chapoy, 3ie
How to communicate research (2.1 MB)
Christelle Chapoy, 3ie
Conference Presentations
Day 1 - December 12, 2012
Session 1
What works in education: where and why? (797.3 KB)
Howard White, Executive Director, 3ie
WSS: Effectiveness, sustainability and WTP (1.1 MB)
Howard White, Executive Director, 3ie
Does private sector involvement in delivery of water, telecommunication and electricity services lead to improved access and quality of service in developing countries? (540.1 KB)
Thillai Rajan A. & Ashwin Mahalingam, Department of Management Studies, Indian Institute of Technology Madras
Session 2
Which Study Designs Should We Include in a Systematic Review of Effects of Development Interventions? (798.7 KB) Jorge Garcia Hombrados and Hugh Waddington, 3ie
Assessing ‘what works’ in international development: metaanalysis for sophisticated dummies (542.3 KB)
Maren Duvendack, Jorge Garcia Hombrados, Richard Palmer Jones and Hugh Waddington
Day 2 - December 13, 2012
Session 4
Community-Based Health Insurance Schemes: A Systematic Review (329.0 KB)
Anagaw Derseh, Pro. Arjun S. Bed, Dr. Robert Sparrow
Community-Based Interventions for the Prevention and Control of Infectious Diseases of Poverty (IDoP) (1.0 MB)
Rehana A Salam, Hasina Maredia, Imama Naqvi, Zohra S Lassi, Zulfiqar A Bhutta, Division of Women and Child Health, The Aga Khan University
Session 5
Challenges in producing policy relevant systematic reviews (851.9 KB)
Howard White, Executive Director, 3ie
Session 6
Assessing global relevance in research with a focus on street connected children and young people (330.9 KB)
Esther Coren, Rosa Hossain, Jordi Pardo Pardo, Holly Harris, Mirella MS Veras, Kabita Chakraborty. Canterbury Christ Church University United
Systematic review of a health system intervention: lessons learnt from a review of results-based financing approaches in Africa and Asia. (983.9 KB)
Emma Jolley, Juliet Milgate and Elena Schmidt, Sightsavers
Session 7
Approaches to Improve Quality of Care (QoC) for Women and Newborns: An Overview of Systematic Reviews (391.0 KB) Rehana A Salam, Zohra Lassi, Jai K Das and Zulfiqar A Bhutta, Aga Khan University
“Innovative community interventions (ICIs) to improve strategies for implementation of maternal and neonatal health services in fragile states” 2011-2012 (156.6 KB)
Sarita Panday, Anthony Zwi, Archana Amatya, Nabin Kumar Jha
Session 8
Cochrane Public Health Group (CPHG) South Asian Satellite formation: Early Experiences (4.5 MB)
Sree Nair , Ruhi Saith, Jodie Doyle, Rebecca Armstrong & Elizabeth Waters, CPHG, University of Melbourne, Australia & Manipal University, India
Session 9
Evidence gap maps – a tool for promoting evidence informed policy (1.7 MB)
Birte Snilstveit, Martina Vojtkova & Ami Bhavsar, 3ie
Session 10
Preschool Feeding Programmes for Improving The Health of Disadvantaged Children: Nutritional Quality Assessment (203.8 KB)
Selma Liberato
Session 11
Systematic reviews: opportunities for evidence based policy (714.3 KB)
Birte Snilstveit, 3ie
Narrative approaches to synthesis of evidence for international development (1.4 MB)
Birte Snilstveit, Martina Vojtkova, 3ie and Sandy Oliver EPPI-centre
The benefits and challenges of using systematic reviews in international development research (327.7 KB)
Maren Duvendack, Richard Mallet, Jessica Hagen-Zanker, Rachel Slater
Session 12
Effect Size Calculation for experimental & quasi-experimental methods (1013.7 KB)
Jorge Hombrados and Hugh Waddington, 3ie
Risk of bias assessment for experimental and quasi-experimental designs based on statistical methods (431.9 KB)
Jorge Hombrados and Hugh Waddington, 3ie
Session 13
Systematic review gap map: What we know and don’t know about HIV/AIDS intervention effectiveness
Martina Vojtkova, 3ie
UK Session 14
What is the Evidence of the Impact of Microfinance on the Well-being of Poor People? (395.7 KB)
Maren Duvendack, Richard Palmer-Jones, With J. Copestake, L. Hooper, Y. Loke, N. Rao, International Development, University of Anglia
Systematic Reviews in International Development: The Way Forward (283.8 KB)
Philip Davies, 3ie
Day 3 - December 14, 2012
Session 16
Farmer field schools: a systematic review (925.4 KB)
Hugh Waddington, 3ie
Publication bias for studies in international development (644.1 KB)
Jorge Hombrados and Hugh Waddington, 3ie
Session 17
Systematic reviews: from ‘bare bones’ reviews to policy relevance? (2.1 MB)
Birte Snilstveit, 3ie
Web-based Health Literature in Bangladesh — an Initiative for Developing Capacity Building of Potential Users to Search through Internet (745.4 KB)
M. Al Mamun, Md. Nazim Uddin, PhD, ICDDR,B Library