Impact evaluations

These are final reports of 3ie-supported impact evaluations that assess the difference a development intervention has made to social and economic outcomes. We fund rigorous evaluations that include a theory-based experimental or quasi-experimental design, and we use the most appropriate mix of methods to capture outcomes and answer what works, for whom, why and at what cost.

Latest impact evaluation report series

Impact evaluation report series

Looking for more impact evaluation evidence? Search our impact evaluation repository to find both 3ie and non-3ie funded studies, summaries and links to the original studies

Impacts of Breakthrough’s school-based gender attitude change programme in Haryana, India

Impacts of Breakthrough’s school-based gender attitude change programme in Haryana, India

Impact evaluation 3ie PDF icon 2018  

This evaluation studies the impact of a gender attitude change programme in government-run secondary schools in four districts of Haryana.

Hotspot interventions at scale in Bogotá, Colombia

Hotspot interventions at scale: the effects of policing and city services on crime in Bogotá, Colombia

Impact evaluation 3ie PDF icon 2018  

This study evaluated the impact of intensive policing and municipal services in targeted hotspots in Bogotá.

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Impact evaluation of the Philippine Special Program for Employment of Students

Impact evaluation 3ie PDF icon 2018  

The authors evaluated the impact of the Philippine Department of Labor and Employment’s Special Program for Employment of Students targeting low-income youth.

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Community-based distribution of oral HIV self-testing kits: experimental evidence from Zambia

Impact evaluation 3ie PDF icon 2018  

Authors piloted a door-to-door offer of a choice between counselor-provided finger-prick rapid HIV testing, or oral HIV self-testing in the presence or absence of the counselor.

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Evaluating the economic impacts of rural banking: experimental evidence from southern India

Impact evaluation 3ie PDF icon 2018  

The authors evaluated the impact of increased access to formal financial services through a delivery model called Kshetriya Gramin Financial Services.

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Direct provision versus facility collection of HIV tests: impacts of self-testing among female sex workers in Uganda

Impact evaluation 3ie PDF icon 2018  
Authors evaluated the impacts on HIV testing rates of directly providing female sex workers with HIV self-test kits or coupons that they could exchange for a free test kit, as well as a peer educator referring them to a facility for standard testing.

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Increasing female sex worker HIV testing: effects of peer educators and HIV self-tests in Zambia

Impact evaluation 3ie PDF icon 2018  

Authors assessed whether peer educators promoting HIV self-tests increased HIV testing among female s

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Impacts of community delivery of antiretroviral drugs in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania

Impact evaluation 3ie PDF icon 2018  
This evaluation showed that community delivery of drugs by community health workers to clinically stable patients is not inferior to standard care, where patients visit a clinic-based doctor to refill prescriptions. 

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Nourishing the future: targeting infants and their caregivers to reduce undernutrition in rural China

Impact evaluation 3ie PDF icon 2018  
This evaluation showed that community delivery of drugs by health workers to clinically stable patients is not inferior to standard care, where patients visit a clinic-based doctor to refill prescriptions. 

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Impacts of the World Food Programme’s interventions to treat malnutrition in Niger

Impact evaluation 3ie PDF icon 2018  

Authors of this evaluation assessed the impact of a grouping of nutrition interventions, including an agriculturally sensitive food for assets programme, on moderate acute malnutrition in Niger.