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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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How to communicate a null-results impact evaluation

Development programs aim to improve outcomes for poor and vulnerable populations, from better health and increased learning to higher productivity and incomes. Impact evaluations apply research tools to assess whether those intended outcomes were achieved because of the program.

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Insights from the Development Evidence Portal – the Middle East and North Africa

Insights from the Development Evidence Portal – the Middle East and North Africa

Our latest piece in the ‘state of the evidence’ series – which interprets data by unpacking the studies in our Development Evidence Portal (DEP) – focuses on the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region. . The DEP currently includes 740 impact evaluations (IE) and 352 systematic reviews (SR) from the region, which is the second smallest amongst regions containing low- and middle-income…

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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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25 February 2026
Rishabh Bhattacharya
Rishabh Bhattacharya
Rohan Shah
Rohan Shah +
 

Why impact evaluations matter: Lessons from Bangladesh’s rapidly evolving aquaculture sector

How and to what extent do development programs deliver intended outcomes in a rapidly evolving sector? 3ie’s recent evaluation of the IDEA project (Increasing Income, Diversifying Diets, and…
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23 February 2026
Fathima Ramshi
Fathima Ramshi
Divya Pandey
Divya Pandey
Zoe-Kennedy-Hughes
Zoe Kennedy-Hughes
Tanvi
Tanvi 1+
 

Digital financial inclusion through UPI: Insights from a community-driven initiative

India’s Unified Payments Interface (UPI) has emerged as a powerful driver of financial inclusion, transforming how people send and receive money and accounting for nearly 85% of all digital payments…
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Sustainable Evidence Infrastructure Commitment
18 February 2026
Birte Snilstveit
Birte Snilstveit
Marie Gaarder
Marie Gaarder
Carson Christiano
Carson Christiano
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Jo Weech 1+
 

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,…
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Updates to the irregular migration evidence gap map and implications for policy and research
13 February 2026
Sanghwa Lee
Sanghwa Lee
Maria Daniela Anda Leon
Maria Daniela Anda Leon
Pierre Marion
Pierre Marion
Shannon Shisler
Shannon Shisler
Carolyn Huang
Carolyn Huang
Anil Thota
Anil Thota 3+
 

Updates to the irregular migration evidence gap map and implications for policy and research

Policymakers, researchers and practitioners now have access to the most up-to-date rigorous evidence base on interventions addressing root causes and drivers of irregular migration, a field in which…
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