Marie Gaarder

Marie Gaarder
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Executive Director
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Marie Gaarder is the executive director of 3ie, leading the organisation’s efforts to improve lives in low- and middle-income countries by supporting the generation and effective use of high-quality and relevant evidence to inform decision-making.
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3ie’s Development Evidence Portal: Value for money in a time of resource uncertainty

Evidence can help us achieve more with less‘The Sustainable Development Goals Report 2024 makes for sobering reading. It finds that only 17 per cent of the SDG targets are on track, nearly half are…

New FCDO Research Commissioning Centre funding round to understand evidence use in policymaking

The first stream of funding will focus on learning from examples of evidence use in practice in economic policymaking. The second stream will be dedicated to evaluations of initiatives designed to…

Journal of Development Effectiveness: walking the talk on TREE (Transparent, Reproducible and Ethical Evidence)

We are excited to launch the special issue of the Journal of Development Effectiveness on Transparent, Reproducible and Ethical Evidence. Through the Journal, 3ie has promoted the publication of high…

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…

A roadmap for more TRIPS on the evidence journey

In October 2023, 3ie created the Global Evidence Commitment, a statement signed by seven leading international development institutions to date to improve their organizational use of rigorous…