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Impact evaluation and policy decisions: where are we? A Latin American think tank perspective

Impact evaluation and policy decisions: where are we? A Latin American think tank perspective

3ie Working Paper 24

Miguel Jaramillo Baanante and Lorena Alcázar Valdivia

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This paper by Jaramillo and Alcázar addresses questions that go to the heart of impact evaluation research: how much has the field achieved towards its goal of informing public policies, and which factors may have been furthering or hindering this goal? 

Looking primarily at its own experience, a Peruvian think tank, the Group for the Analysis of Development, elucidates the importance of factors such as the researcher’s contact with programme officers, methodological choices, external validity, institutional factors and public sector capacity, which may all play a role in making impact evaluation results more effective or less effective in informing policy decisions. 

The authors find a common perception among researchers: it is not enough to try to persuade public officials about the usefulness of an impact evaluation or to find ingenious ways to get the evaluation done. The keys are to institutionalise learning systems in which impact evaluations play an important role and to establish mechanisms that make their use mandatory, through an entity with authority and suitable capacities to do so. Recent experiences in Latin America suggest that the time is ripe for this type of institutional development.

Findings from a qualitative analysis of ADN Dignidad Program in Colombia

Findings from a qualitative analysis of ADN Dignidad Program in Colombia

Working paper 3ie 2023
 
This paper examines the qualitative analysis of the effectiveness of Multipurpose Cash Transfers in improving the lives of Venezuelan migrants in Colombia.

Learning from collective-led sanitation enterprises in urban Odisha, Tamil Nadu and Telangana

Learning from collective-led sanitation enterprises in urban Odisha, Tamil Nadu and Telangana

Working paper 3ie 2022
 
This paper summarizes the findings of a learning study on the processes and lessons from recent efforts of the Odisha, Tamil Nadu and Telangana governments to improve sanitation services and provide employment opportunities to urban collectives through fecal sludge management, and operation and maintenance of community and public toilets.

Use of performance-based contracts for road maintenance projects: a rapid evidence assessment

Use of performance-based contracts for road maintenance projects: a rapid evidence assessment

Working paper 3ie 2022
 
Authors of this rapid evidence assessment synthesize available rigorous impact evaluations of performance-based contracting in road construction in low income and low-and-middle-income countries. 

Evaluation of IDEA project in Bangladesh: a baseline report

Evaluation of IDEA project in Bangladesh: a baseline report

Working paper 3ie 2022
 
Authors of this report present the findings from a baseline survey of a WorldFish aquaculture project, Increasing income, diversifying diets and empowering women (IDEA) in Bangladesh. This baseline report is part of an ongoing impact evaluation of the project that focuses on the Rajshahi and Rangpur divisions.

Working Paper 52, 2022

A framework for examining women’s economic empowerment in collective enterprises

Working paper 3ie 2022
 
Women-owned collective enterprises are seen as vehicles for promoting economic empowerment. To assess how collective enterprise-based interventions can lead to empowerment, it's important to understand the pathways to change.

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