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As part of our mandate as a knowledge producer and translator for our main audiences, we maintain a range of free online publication series: briefs, impact evaluation reports, systematic review technical and summary reports, replication papers, evidence gap map reports, scoping, and working papers.

Latest publications

Latest publications

Aquaculture in transition: Lessons from the impact evaluation of the IDEA project in Bangladesh

Impact evaluation Brief 3ie 2026  
The authors of this brief evaluate the IDEA project’s efforts to strengthen aquaculture, nutrition, and women’s empowerment in northwest Bangladesh, finding limited added impact amid rapid market-driven sector growth.

The impact of linkage modalities between index-based insurance and agricultural credit

Impact evaluation Brief 3ie 2026  
This brief presents evidence from a 4-year quasi-experimental impact evaluation of weather-index-based insurance bundled with agricultural loans for small-scale producers in Senegal.

Effects of information, capacity strengthening and behaviour change interventions on food security and nutrition in sub-Saharan Africa: lessons for research

Working paper Brief 3ie 2026  
This research brief presents evidence clusters, gaps, and methodological patterns that can inform future research in the field of information, capacity strengthening, and behaviour change interventions on food security, nutrition, and environmental food system resilience in Sub-Saharan Africa.

Evaluation of IDEA: An aquaculture project in Bangladesh

Impact evaluation 3ie 2026  
The authors of this report evaluate the IDEA project’s efforts to strengthen aquaculture, nutrition, and women’s empowerment in northwest Bangladesh, finding limited added impact amid rapid market-driven sector growth.

Index-based insurance in Senegal, 10 years later: Stocktaking and future directions

Impact evaluation Brief 3ie 2026  
This brief presents evidence from a 4-year quasi-experimental impact evaluation of weather-index-based insurance bundled with agricultural loans for small-scale producers in Senegal.

Addressing Root Causes and Drivers of Irregular Migration: Evidence Gap Map 2025 Update

Evidence gap map 3ie 2026  
The authors of this EGM update report map the latest available evidence base and assess the quality of existing systematic reviews on the effectiveness of interventions addressing the root causes and drivers of irregular migration.

Transforming rural livelihoods in India: Findings from NRETP and NRLM evaluation

Impact evaluation Brief 3ie 2026  
This brief is based on 3ie's study evaluating the impacts of India's National Rural Livelihoods Mission (NRLM), including its enhanced phase under the National Rural Economic Transformation Project (NRETP).

Transforming rural livelihoods in India: Findings from NRETP and NRLM evaluation

Impact evaluation 3ie 2025  
This impact evaluation examines how India’s NRLM tackles structural barriers to rural income growth by building large-scale federations of women’s self-help groups and sequencing targeted economic interventions.

Effects of promoting management of the social, political, and institutional environment on conflict in the Polochic Valley

Impact evaluation 3ie 2025  
This report presents the impact evaluation of a set of interventions supported by the UN Peacebuilding Fund between 2022 and 2023 aimed at managing the social, political, and institutional environment in the Polochic Valley of Guatemala.