Marie Gaarder

Marie Gaarder
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Executive Director
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Marie Gaarder is the executive director of 3ie, leading the organisation’s efforts to improve lives in low- and middle-income countries by supporting the generation and effective use of high-quality and relevant evidence to inform decision-making.
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How will we ever learn? Towards a sustainable evidence infrastructure

Over the past two decades, the volume of rigorous impact evaluation evidence has grown dramatically. This is a major success for the evidence-informed development community. Yet despite this growth,…

Ethics advances at JDEff for our peacebuilding special issue and beyond

Ethical considerations should remain at the forefront of researchers’ minds when conducting evaluations of development, humanitarian, and peacebuilding interventions. To make sure that authors for…

When the things “everyone knows” turn out to be wrong

I still remember my early days as a fresh PhD economist at the Inter-American Development Bank. My job was to help design health and social programs across Latin America. I arrived eager, idealistic,…

3ie’s Development Evidence Portal: Value for money in a time of resource uncertainty

Evidence can help us achieve more with less‘The Sustainable Development Goals Report 2024 makes for sobering reading. It finds that only 17 per cent of the SDG targets are on track, nearly half are…

New FCDO Research Commissioning Centre funding round to understand evidence use in policymaking

The first stream of funding will focus on learning from examples of evidence use in practice in economic policymaking. The second stream will be dedicated to evaluations of initiatives designed to…