This report examines the impacts of a large-scale provision of free centre-based care on child development, maternal labour market outcomes and family environment.
Rick Davies (M&E consultant) spoke about the technical issues associated with the representation of theories of change and the implications of design choices for the evaluability of those theories.
In Mexico, a range of programmes focus on early childhood development. This impact evaluation examined the Programa Educación Inicial (Early Education Programme) in Mexico.
This evaluation measures the impact of the Midwives Service Scheme, a government programme introduced in 2009 to increase access to skilled obstetric care in underserved rural areas.
3ie and IFAD hosted an event on financial services for the poor and rural finance. IFAD showcased their rural finance programming and impact evaluations work. Seven 3ie-funded researchers presented their replication analyses of influential impact evaluations.
This study examines whether Ethiopia’s Productive Safety Net Programme (PNSP) has had additional impacts on children’s schooling, labour and nutrition.
Nabila Kabeer (LSE) shared findings from a qualitative analysis to reflect on the strengths and limitations of RCTs as an approach to evaluation and to support arguments for greater methodological pluralism in the study of development interventions.