The COVAX Facility and Advance Market Commitment (AMC) were initiated in 2020 with the specific aim of enabling equitable global access to COVID-19 vaccines. This experience has generated important learning that will inform the decision-making of major global health players. 3ie worked with a consortium led by Itad to conduct a baseline review and formative study of the design, implementation and emerging results of the COVAX Facility and AMC to support accountability and course correction. The evaluation provides a key data point to strengthen global readiness to respond to future pandemics. Read more about the 3ie-led module on our website. Read report

Interventions to increase resilience in adaptation, mitigation, and recovery from covariate shocks, stressors, or recurring crises in low- and middle-income countries have become increasingly common. But we still do not know enough about the characteristics of empirical evidence on the effects of these interventions. At a recent event hosted by British Expertise International, we launched 3ie’s Resilience Evidence Gap Map (EGM) and report that address this knowledge gap and help us understand which interventions and outcomes the available effectiveness evidence in this sector has focused on so far. The map, which includes 362 studies, shows for which areas we know what works, and for which we need additional evidence to help strengthen resilience programming. It has been created alongside three other EGMs on nutrition, agriculture, and water, sanitation and hygiene. This research is led by 3ie and with support from USAID’s Bureau for Resilience and Food Security, via a partnership with D-Lab at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Read more about our work on resilience here.

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Cash transfers are well established as an effective development tool that can improve human capital outcomes among poor and vulnerable households. But how effective are these to support displaced populations? Our most recent impact evaluation of a cash assistance program in Colombia addresses the urgent imperative of understanding how to effectively support crisis-affected individuals. The country has seen a mass influx of migrants – Venezuelans and Colombian returnees – and the ADN Dignidad Program provided up to six months of unconditional multipurpose cash assistance transfers to approximately 220,000 such individuals.

Our findings show large and significant effects of the intervention on reducing both the severity and prevalence of food insecurity coping strategies and food consumption practices participants adopted in emergency situations. The results are useful for humanitarian organizations, the international cooperation community, the national government and local and regional governments in Colombia to define humanitarian responses for the migrant population. 

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