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World Bank IEG's expert panel

How should evaluators respond to a changing global landscape? Ideas from the World Bank IEG's expert panel

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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evidence-to-policy

The evidence-to-policy conundrum and how to solve it

Does better evidence lead to better policies and programs? Massive amounts of reliable evidence, drawing on scientifically strong methods, including randomized controlled trials, mixed-methods approaches, and more, have been generated and disseminated in recent decades. A Nobel Prize has been awarded for that pathbreaking work. Yet the impact of that evidence – on…

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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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05 August 2024
Sanghwa Lee
Sanghwa Lee
Etienne Lwamba
Etienne Lwamba
Ashiqun Nabi
Ashiqun Nabi
Ingunn Storhaug
Ingunn Storhaug
Pierre Marion
Pierre Marion 2+
 

Improving women’s empowerment through food systems and nutrition interventions

Food insecurity, hunger, and malnutrition persist globally, with 783 million people facing chronic hunger in 2023. Women are particularly affected, making up 60 percent of the food-insecure…
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24 July 2024
Anjini Kochar
Anjini Kochar +
 

Enhancing rural livelihoods in India: evidence-based policy evolution and innovation

One of India’s largest livelihoods programs—which 3ie is evaluating—and its transformation over time offer insights into how policies interact with and adapt to the changing ground realities and the…
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16 July 2024
Ingunn Storhaug
Ingunn Storhaug
mark
Mark Engelbert +
 

Final update to living food systems E&GM: New studies address gender-transformative interventions and food loss outcomes

In our eighth and final scheduled update to 3ie’s living food systems evidence and gap map (E&GM), we add 307 new impact evaluations and eight new systematic reviews, bringing the total number of…
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02 July 2024
Douglas Glandon
Douglas Glandon
Thomas Kelly
Thomas Kelly
Marie Gaarder
Marie Gaarder +
 

Using evidence in decision-making: Moving from commitment to practice by distinguishing evidence from any old data

The importance of evidence for decision-making is widely acknowledged, and an increasing number of organizations are stating this officially. This type of organizational signaling can be an important…
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26 June 2024
Fiona Kastel
Fiona Kastel
Sanchi Lokhande
Sanchi Lokhande
Anca Dumitrescu
Anca Dumitrescu
Devika Lakhote
Devika Lakhote
Douglas Glandon
Douglas Glandon 2+
 

Open technical questions in geospatial impact evaluations and why they matter

Geospatial impact evaluations offer deeper insights but also come with their unique set of challenges. As part of the GeoField community of practice, we are finding ways to unpack and address these…
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