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Making AI work: Practical applications in impact evaluation

In this blog, we highlight several examples from 3ie’s work that demonstrate how AI can help unlock new sources and types of data, strengthen evaluation design, analyze larger volumes of data than ever before, and do it faster and more cost-effectively. Ultimately, AI can free up valuable researcher time to imagine more ambitious evaluations and perhaps bring us closer to solving key…

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OECD panel

Evidence in a fragmented world: some reflections

Aid has always been shaped by donor interests, but development cooperation is now becoming more overtly interest-driven. Can development outcomes survive inside that new framing? In this blog, I highlight three key points and two boldish ideas I covered in my remarks at the recently-held OECD Conference on the Future of Development Cooperation.

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

To respond to a rapidly-changing global context, the evaluation community needs to adapt its methods and approaches, according to an expert panel assembled by the World Bank’s Independent Evaluation Group (IEG).

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11 June 2026
Marie Gaarder
Marie Gaarder +
 

The missing middle: why connecting evidence systems to decision systems is key

The development sector has never had access to more evidence. Decades of impact evaluations, systematic reviews, evidence gap maps, and data systems have produced a substantial body of knowledge (see…
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OECD panel
02 June 2026
Marie Gaarder
Marie Gaarder +
 

Evidence in a fragmented world: some reflections

Aid has always been shaped by donor interests, but development cooperation is now becoming more overtly interest-driven. Can development outcomes survive inside that new framing? In this blog, I…
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DEYANIRA_SOACHA
14 April 2026
Astrid Gracia
Astrid Garcia +
 

A lasting win against food insecurity

At the height of uncertainty, many families arriving in Colombia faced a daily question: Will we eat today?For Marisol, a mother of three, food was never just about hunger. It was about…
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08 April 2026
Carlos-Galvan
Carlos Enrique Galvan Falcon
Fiona Kastel
Fiona Kastel
Devika Lakhote
Devika Lakhote
Sanchi Lokhande
Sanchi Lokhande
Geetika Pandya
Geetika Pandya 2+
 

Making AI work: Practical applications in impact evaluation

Generative AI is increasingly becoming a part of researchers’ and analysts’ toolkits and reshaping how we design and deliver our work. But what does this mean for the international development…
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24 March 2026
Abhinav Dubey
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Empowering rural women through enterprise in India: the DAY-NRLM journey and the road ahead

Enterprises are the engines of growth in rural economies, extending beyond agriculture to diversify income sources. For women, engaging in or leading such ventures does more than generate income—it…
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