Charlotte Lane

Charlotte Lane
Designation: Nutrition Consultant, 3ie
Charlotte Lane is a nutrition and food security expert who has managed several of 3ie’s cross-sectoral evaluation and synthesis projects to support food systems transformation and the adoption of healthy diets.

Prior to her time with 3ie, Charlotte conducted research on HIV-exposed and -uninfected infants in sub-Saharan Africa. She also worked on community health and food security initiatives in Burkina Faso.

Blogs by author

Déterminer ce qui fonctionne pour améliorer la nutrition maternelle : début d'une nouvelle évaluation au Bénin

Charlotte Lane, Anca Dumitrescu, Dislène Senan Sossou 04 January 2024 blog  
3ie, en partenariat avec le gouvernement du Bénin, lance l’évaluation d'impact d'une initiative révolutionnaire : un programme de nutrition pratique et évolutif pour améliorer les résultats en matière de santé maternelle et infantile.

Determining what works to improve maternal nutrition: Beginning a new evaluation in Benin

Charlotte Lane, Anca Dumitrescu, Dislène Senan Sossou 04 January 2024 blog  
3ie, in partnership with the Government of Benin, is launching an impact evaluation of a groundbreaking initiative: a practical, scalable nutrition program to improve maternal and infant health outcomes.

Mapping evidence and gaps in interventions reducing anaemia in low- and middle-income countries

Ashiqun Nabi, Charlotte Lane, Daniel Lopez de Romaña, Alison Mildon 26 July 2023 blog  
In 2019, 269 million children under five, 32 million pregnant women, and over half a billion women of reproductive age were reported to be affected by anaemia. The condition causes adverse health outcomes, delayed cognitive and physical development in children, and reduced productivity which may lead to economic losses

3ie's living Food Systems Evidence and Gap Map: Mixed mid-term findings and project extension

Charlotte Lane, Ingunn Storhaug 11 July 2023 blog  
3ie has now been engaging in its ambitious living evidence mapping process for three years. The mid-term report showed a mixed message: although we have added 267 impact evaluations and systematic reviews of impact evaluations to the map in the last two years, the rate of expansion in the evidence base has slowed since 2019.

Five lessons from our Transparent, Reproducible, and Ethical Evidence (TREE) reviews

Chandan Jain, Charlotte Lane, Andrew Tangang, Jennifer Sturdy, Bidisha Barooah 22 March 2023 blog  
We have been consolidating our efforts to develop stronger systems for producing transparent, reproducible, and ethical evidence (TREE). We have emphasized asking ourselves the right questions at the right times, even when there are no easy answers. We’ve examined very specific questions such as: Does a state of scarcity or equipoise make it ethical to withhold an intervention from a control group?