Spotlight

Spotlight

  • Show all
  • Blogs
  • Events
  • Jobs
  • Media
  • Publications
For Illustrative purpose only

Blogs

What works to increase women’s adoption of digital payment services in India

For Illustrative purpose only

Blogs

Embedding scaling into evaluation methodology and practice: A call to action

For Illustrative purpose only

Events

Launch event: Mapping learning-to-earning pathways

For Illustrative purpose only

Blogs

Reaching SDG 16: A long way to go to promote peace, but we know some tools are effective

Effects of El Niño and the positive Indian Ocean Dipole (+IOD) on health, food security, economics and conflicts in low- and middle-income countries in the Indo-Pacific: A systematic review

Publications

Effects of El Niño and the positive Indian Ocean Dipole (+IOD) on health, food security,…

Mapping the evidence on learning to earning interventions in low- and middle-income countries: A framework proposal and scoping review

Publications

Mapping the evidence on learning to earning interventions in low- and middle-income…

Mapping the evidence on food systems and nutrition: insights from a living evidence and gap map

Publications

Mapping the evidence on food systems and nutrition: insights from a living evidence and…

For Illustrative purpose only

Blogs

Reflections from a global discussion on the learning-to-earning evidence base

Research Commissioning Centre: Upcoming calls for proposals

Features

Research Commissioning Centre: Upcoming calls for proposals

For Illustrative purpose only
01 Jul 2025

Embedding scaling into evaluation methodology and practice: A call to action

For Illustrative purpose only
30 Jun 2025

What works to increase women’s adoption of digital payment services in India

For Illustrative purpose only
27 Jun 2025

Reflections from a global discussion on the learning-to-earning evidence base

For Illustrative purpose only
23 Jun 2025

Reaching SDG 7: Sustainable energy for all is a complex goal. Evidence about how to get…

For Illustrative purpose only
23 Jun 2025

Managing large-scale surveys: best practices to ensure data quality

For Illustrative purpose only
18 Jun 2025

Reaching SDG 3: Promoting immunizations can safeguard children from preventable diseases…

For Illustrative purpose only
18 Jun 2025

Reaching SDG 15: Evidence shows how to protect land ecosystems by leveraging communities

For Illustrative purpose only
17 Jun 2025

Push button replications – promoting credibility in 3ie’s evidence generation process

DEP-SDG series blog
15 May 2025

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

For Illustrative purpose only
25 Jun 2025

Launch event: Mapping learning-to-earning pathways

job
10 Jul 2025

Consultant-Evaluation Specialist

job
30 Jun 2025

Co-Chair for IDGC

job
29 Jan 2025

Consultant for Strategy and Workplan to Mobilize Flexible Resources for Strategic…

3ie welcomes USAID to the Global Evidence Commitment
09 May 2024

3ie welcomes USAID to the Global Evidence Commitment

Effects of El Niño and the positive Indian Ocean Dipole (+IOD) on health, food security, economics and conflicts in low- and middle-income countries in the Indo-Pacific: A systematic review
28 May 2025

Effects of El Niño and the positive Indian Ocean Dipole (+IOD) on health, food security,…

Mapping the evidence on learning to earning interventions in low- and middle-income countries: A framework proposal and scoping review
21 May 2025

Mapping the evidence on learning to earning interventions in low- and middle-income…

Picture-based crop insurance: A randomized controlled trial evaluating the impacts of using smartphone camera data for claims verification in India
26 Feb 2025

Picture-based crop insurance: A randomized controlled trial evaluating the impacts of…

KhetScore: Impacts of using digital technologies to unlock credit and insurance for marginal farmers in Odisha
28 Feb 2025

KhetScore: Impacts of using digital technologies to unlock credit and insurance for…

Impact of a COVID-19 emergency liquidity support package on bank performance and lending: a controlled interrupted time series (CITS) analysis
12 Mar 2025

Impact of a COVID-19 emergency liquidity support package on bank performance and lending:…

Low-cost approaches for creating informed demand for insurance
28 Apr 2025

Low-cost approaches for creating informed demand for insurance

Economic and empowerment impacts of millet processing and value-addition enterprises by women SHGs in tribal areas of Odisha, India (E²IMPART)
26 Mar 2025

Economic and empowerment impacts of millet processing and value-addition enterprises by…

KhetScore: Impacts of Using Digital Technologies to Unlock Credit and Insurance for Marginal Farmers in Odisha
20 Mar 2025

KhetScore: Impacts of Using Digital Technologies to Unlock Credit and Insurance for…

Creating informed demand and impacts through innovative and cost-effective extension
28 Apr 2025

Creating informed demand and impacts through innovative and cost-effective extension

Services

Services

We offer an innovative and impactful suite of products and services across the research program cycle. We push development evidence beyond bare bones impact evaluations and systematic reviews to facilitate evidence and its use by governments, development institutions and funders. We tailor our approach to partners’ individual needs and strategic objectives and remain at the forefront of evidence-informed policy and practice.
View all

What are the underlying causes of the problem my program is trying to solve?

Which interventions have worked to solve the problem I want to address?

How can we design my program to maximize learning and impact?

How effective is our program?

How can we help stakeholders engage with the evidence?

How can we strengthen the capacity for generating and using evidence in our organization?

Research

Research

Nutrition and Food Security

Everyone needs reliable access to sufficient, safe and affordable nutritious food, coupled with a sanitary environment, adequate health, education and care. However, all too often, this need is not fu...
Learn more

Promoting and Mapping Sustainable Energy Evidence to Achieve SDG7

Delivering sustainable energy for all (SDG7) is key to making progress on several sustainable goals.
Learn more

Rural India Livelihoods Project

India's Deendayal Antyodaya Yojana-National Rural Livelihoods Mission aims to link the rural poor to sustainable livelihood opportunities and financial services. 3ie has been generating rigorous evide...
Learn more

Understanding Impacts of El Niño and the Indian Ocean Dipole in the Indo-Pacific

Climate events have significant consequences on societies and economies, deeply affecting people’s livelihoods, income, food security, and health conditions. Climate patterns can influenc...
Learn more

West Africa Capacity-building and Impact Evaluation

The West Africa Capacity-building and Impact Evaluation (WACIE) program is a regional initiative that supports and promotes the culture of evidence-informed decision-making among high-lev...
Learn more

Transparent, Reproducible and Ethical Evidence (TREE)

3ie champions the research transparency and reproducibility movement as a means of understanding and mitigating challenges to the credibility of social science research, while also workin...
Learn more
View all

Network

Network

Members

Members

Our members are public and private donors, government agencies from low and middle-income countries and NGOs

Partners

Partners

Our partnerships complement and extend our member network to strengthen the impact of our work and achieve deeper and more sustainable change in all areas of our work

Supporters

Supporters

Our supporters are donors that share something in common – a deep commitment to using high-quality evidence to inform development policies and programs that can improve the lives of people

Team

Team

Marie-Gaarder

Marie Gaarder

Executive Director
Birte Snilstveit

Birte Snilstveit

Director – Synthesis and Reviews and Head of London office
Hitesh Somani

Hitesh Somani

Director - Finance and Administration
Neelakshi Mann

Neelakshi Mann

Program Director - Asia
Sebastian Martinez

Sebastian Martinez

Director of Evaluation
Thomas_kelly

Thomas Kelly

Director – Evidence for Policy and Learning
View all

569

Knowledge products, research and policy publications 

471

Grants given to researchers and institutions

Counter Logo

16

Years of experience

19392

Studies in the Development Evidence Portal

65

Summaries of impact of our research evidence

View all

Evidence Hub

Evidence Hub

Publications

Publications

We maintain a range of free online and decision-support products

RIDIE_homepage

Registry for International Development Impact...

RIDIE is a prospective registry of impact evaluations of development policies and programs in L&MICs

JDEFF

Journal of Development Effectiveness

The journal publishes papers reporting evidence of impact of development interventions

View all