Mark Engelbert

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Designation: Senior Evaluation Specialist & Leader, Development Evidence Portal
Mark manages 3ie’s Development Evidence Portal and supports the production of systematic reviews and evidence gap maps in a variety of topics, with emphasis on agriculture and immunisation.
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3ie's living Food Systems Evidence and Gap Map: Slow progress on evidence gaps, but little high-quality synthesis

Ingunn Storhaug, Mark Engelbert 24 November 2023 blog
 
In our most recent update to our living Evidence and Gap Map (E&GM) on Food Systems, we see the continuation of several trends: more evaluations of national and transnational programs; fewer evaluations of supplementation and fortification interventions; a shift toward quasi-experimental research; and a dearth of high-quality systematic reviews.

Unveiling trends in impact evaluations across Latin America and the Caribbean

Cem Yavuz, Mark Engelbert, M Zahin Shafiq 11 October 2023 blog
 
3ie’s Development Evidence Portal (DEP) team is writing a series of blogs designed to provide insights and explore regional trends from the data housed within the world’s largest repository for rigorous international development evaluations. Our first destination in this series is Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC), a region ranking third in terms of the number of impact evaluations (IEs) with 1910. Here we provide a brief overview of the region, and we encourage interested users to utilize the DEP to do your own explorations.

What works to reverse democratic backsliding? It’s complicated

Etienne Lwamba, Ashiqun Nabi, Pierre Marion, Mark Engelbert 04 October 2023 blog
 
Many countries have faced democratic backsliding or autocratization, especially in the past 30 years. With a staggering 72 percent of the world population living in autocracies (according to the V-Dem 2023 report), we need more evidence to better understand what works to support democracy and freedom in backsliding contexts to reverse this trend. To support this effort towards evidence-informed decision-making in democracy programming, 3ie has gathered existing findings in an evidence gap map and rapid evidence assessment (REA), with support from the UK government's Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO).

Strengthening democracy and freedom in backsliding contexts: mapping and synthesizing the evidence

Etienne Lwamba, Ashiqun Nabi, Pierre Marion, Mark Engelbert 06 June 2023 blog
 
In recent years, international observers such as the V-Dem Institute have highlighted an alarming crisis of democracy with a decline in competitive elections, political participation and public accountability. For the first time in two decades, the Institute’s 2023 Democracy Report found more closed autocracies than liberal democracies in the world.

Insights from the Development Evidence Portal: Where is the evidence (like, on a map)?

Mark Engelbert 02 May 2023 blog
 

As we mark 3ie’s 15 years, it’s an opportune time to take stock of the “state of the evidence”, using one of our major contributions to the field of evidence use: the Development Evidence Portal (DEP). The Portal makes evidence about the effectiveness of development interventions accessible to a large constituency of evidence users, funders, and decision-makers across the globe.