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World Bank IEG's expert panel

How should evaluators respond to a changing global landscape? Ideas from the World Bank IEG's expert panel

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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evidence-to-policy

The evidence-to-policy conundrum and how to solve it

Does better evidence lead to better policies and programs? Massive amounts of reliable evidence, drawing on scientifically strong methods, including randomized controlled trials, mixed-methods approaches, and more, have been generated and disseminated in recent decades. A Nobel Prize has been awarded for that pathbreaking work. Yet the impact of that evidence – on…

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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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For Illustrative purpose only
08 May 2025
Tomasz
Tomasz Kozakiewicz
Suvarna Pande
Suvarna Pande
Andrea Floridi
Andrea Floridi
Megha Bhattacharyya
Megha Bhattacharyya
Anil Thota
Anil Thota 2+
 

Call for evidence on the effects of engaging the private sector in sustainable development

At a time when international development budgets are under pressure, involving the private sector in accelerating progress towards the UN's Sustainable Development Goals has become more pressing than…
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For Illustrative purpose only
16 April 2025
Suvarna Pande
Suvarna Pande
catherine-macleod
Catherine MacLeod +
 

More than numbers: Strengthening RCT and cost reporting for policy and practice

Randomized controlled trials (RCTs) are a powerful tool for understanding what works in development and anti-poverty programs. They provide insights to guide practitioners and policymakers in…
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For Illustratove purpose only
04 March 2025
Sanchi Lokhande
Sanchi Lokhande
Fiona Kastel
Fiona Kastel +
 

Explore 3ie’s new inventory of remote-sensing indicators to leverage satellite data for development

Imagine you are an evaluator trying to determine whether an agricultural intervention has increased vegetation in a dry, arid, and conflict-prone region—where on-the-ground data collection is…
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WASSAN-Swashakt
04 March 2025
Divya Pandey
Divya Pandey
Chandan Jain
Chandan Jain
Aastha Dang
Aastha Dang
Shreya Banerjee
Shreya Banerjee
Fatema Patel
Fatema Patel 2+
 

What happens when women come together to lead businesses in rural India?

The Swashakt program launched by 3ie, with support from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, helps answer key aspects of this central question. Swashakt supported women’s empowerment collectives …
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For Illustrative purpose only
10 December 2024
Pierre Marion
Pierre Marion
Shannon Shisler
Shannon Shisler +
 

Learning from more than two decades of market access interventions for smallholder farmers

Subsistence or small-scale farming remains the primary source of livelihood for households in rural areas. Numerous factors inhibit farmers’ access and participation in markets—farmers being too far…
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