Howard White

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Director, GDN Evaluation and Evidence Synthesis Programme
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Howard is the Director of the GDN Evaluation and Evidence Synthesis Programme. Formerly, he was the CEO of the Campbell Collaboration and Adjunct Professor, Alfred Deakin Research Institute, Deakin University. He is also a former executive director of 3ie.
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sports
13 July 2015
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Tackling radicalisation through sports

Ten years ago, on 7 July, four suicide bombers killed 52 people in London. This included the bombing of the number 30 bus at Tavistock Square, just yards away from the building that now houses 3ie’s…
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MUSHENGEZI-BIRINDWA-Pascal
06 July 2015
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Do communities need funds or facilitation?

A group of villages in Haryana, India came together tobuild a much-needed bridgeto reduce travel time to the nearest town. This sounds like the sort of community initiative that donors have been…
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DFAT
04 March 2015
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Understanding what’s what: the importance of sector knowledge in causal chain analysis

My recent blog, How big is big enough?, argued that you need sector expertise to judge if the effect of a programme is meaningful rather than just statistically significant. But the need for sector…
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CIAT
18 February 2015
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What’s wrong with evidence-informed development? Part 2

3ie’srecent systematic review of farmer field schools (FFS)found that these programmes worked as pilots and small- scale programmes. But the few impact evaluations of national-level programmes found…
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CGIAR-climate
13 January 2015
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What’s wrong with evidence-informed development? Part 1

On my reading list as an undergraduate in development studies was Peter Laslett’sThe World We Have Lost,This is a social history that challenges the view that pre-industrial England was a stagnant…
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