Events

3ie events

3ie hosts seminars, workshops and conferences in multiple locations across the world. These events focus on sharing the latest evidence, innovations in evaluations, systematic reviews, gap maps, replications and evidence use. They are a platform for vibrant discussions and debates between researchers, policymakers and programme managers on priority topics.

Upcoming events

Why and how to create an evidence gap map using sexual and reproductive health and rights as an example

Workshop 23 April 2024 Online
Evidence on global development programs often remains fragmented either by thematic areas of study, or by regions and populations. Evidence gap maps (EGMs) visually highlight where evidence concentrations and gaps exist in a sector or topic area and, in doing so, consolidate knowledge of these programs to inform future investments in research and programming.

Teaching critical thinking about health: impacts and implications

Conference 25 April 2024 Online
In this 3ie Evidence Dialogues webinar, we will discuss the results of impact evaluations of an educational intervention to improve secondary students’ ability to think critically about health in Kenya, Rwanda, and Uganda.

Previous events

Residential programme on practice of development evaluation, 18-22 September, Sonipat, India

Workshop 18 - 22 September 2017
This programme is designed to enhance the knowledge and skills of development practitioners to help promote the use of credible evidence to measure, assess, and inform development efforts around the sustainable development goals.

Do farmers learn from extension services? Evidence from Malawi

Seminar 23 August 2017 New Delhi
In this seminar, Annemie Maertnens presented results from a 3ie-funded impact evaluation in Malawi on the effects of these two primary models on farmer learning and adoption of integrated soil fertility management practices.

Peer comparison interventions: cases from developing countries

Seminar 13 July 2017 New Delhi
In this talk, Saugato Datta presented results from three recently concluded field RCTs which leveraged this insight to address challenges in very different domains: low uptake of long-acting contraception in Nepal, wastage of electricity in a commercial setting in South Africa and households' overuse of water in Costa Rica.

Transparency and reproducibility of impact evaluation: a turning point for the evaluation community

Seminar 28 April 2017 New Delhi
In this 3ie Delhi seminar, Arnaud Vanagay presented his research in meta-research. He covered measuring the transparency and the scientific credibility of applied social sciences (e.g. evaluations of employment policies) and the influence of scientific norms, political institutions and financial incentives on the transparency and credibility of this research.

3ie Washington Evidence Week 2017

Evidence Week 27 April 2017 Washington DC
To discuss what evidence exists, for whom and how it can help decision makers address gendered inequalities, 3ie organised a one-day conference as part of the 3ie Washington Evidence Week on 27 April 2017 at the Beacon Hotel, Rhode Island Avenue, Washington, DC.

27 - 31
March 2017

African Evaluation Association conference

Conferences 27 - 31 March 2017
3ie co-sponsored and participated in the Eighth African Evaluation Association (AfrEA) International Conference 2017 held in Kampala, Uganda from 27-31 March.

From evidence to action: Working together to realise the Swachh Bharat Mission

Seminar 17 March 2017 New Delhi
In this 3ie Delhi seminar, Nipun Vinayak, former director, Swachh Bharat Mission talked about how civil society could be supporting the SBM vision and how the gaps between policy, programming and practice could be bridged.

3ie Delhi Evidence Week 2016

Evidence Week 15 - 16 November 2016 New Delhi
3ie Delhi Evidence Week featured events focusing on the generation and use of evidence for informing policies and programmes in adolescents and young lives, education, nutrition, livelihoods, and water, sanitation and hygiene. Michael Woolcock, lead social development specialist with the World Bank delivered the opening public lecture on 15 November.

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October 2016
London

What policies and interventions have been strongly associated with changes

Seminar 26 October 2016 London
The systematic review was commissioned and funded by the UK Department of International Development; the final report is available here. The review was carried out by a team of researchers at the School of International Development at the University of East Anglia, consisting of Edward Anderson, Maren Duvendack, Maria Jalles D’Orey and Lucio Esposito.

The role and interpretation of pilot studies in impact evaluation research

Seminar 20 October 2016 New Delhi
In this presentation, Shagun Sabarwal used the example of a recent pilot study done in collaboration with Government of Punjab as a precursor to a full-scale cluster randomised evaluation.