Martina Vojtkova

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Martina was an Evaluation Specialist in 3ie’s Synthesis and Reviews team and an Associate Editor of the International Development Coordinating Group of the Campbell Collaboration. She helped coordinate systematic reviews commissioned by 3ie and other donors, provided quality assurance on impact evaluations and systematic reviews, and contributed to in-house systematic review research and methods development.

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Chipiliro Khonje
15 October 2015
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Getting to the goals: what we know and don’t know about sustainable solutions for poverty eradication

On 25 September 2015, 193 UN member states signed off on a new direction for achieving sustainable development by 2030. First among the 17 new sustainable development goals is the aim to end poverty…
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Save-the-children
10 March 2015
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Daniel Phillips
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Not all ‘systematic’ reviews are created equal

In a recent World Bank blog based on a paper, David Evans and Anna Popova argue that systematic reviews may not be reliable as an approach to synthesis of empirical literature. They reach this…
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woman-talking
28 September 2014
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Unexpected evidence on impact evaluations of anti-poverty programmes

The first email that caught my eye this morning as I opened my inbox was Markus Goldstein’s most recent World Bank blog post,“Do impact evaluations tell us anything about reducing poverty?”Having…
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systematic-reviews
13 December 2012
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How useful are systematic reviews in international development?

Systematic reviews summarise all the evidence on a particular intervention or programme and were first developed in the health sector.  The health reviews have a specific audience: doctors, nurses…
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