Rigged or rigorous? Researcher-practitioner partnerships to evaluate the impact of complex social interventions
Speaker: Charlotte Watts, chief scientific adviser, DFID
Globally, 4.5 billion people live without safely managed sanitation and 892 million people practise open defecation (WHO-UNICEF, 2017). Poor sanitation can contribute to high rates of diarrhoeal disease and chronic infections that cause undernutrition and death in children in developing countries.
This joint-event, organized by the Sehgal Foundation and 3ie, was a platform for over 110 policymakers, including government representatives, researchers and students to come together to discuss transparency, open data, ethical values and issues related to development research in India.
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.
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.
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.
3ie’s WASH evidence gap map provides an assessment of the evidence base for behaviour change, health and socio-economic outcomes resulting from WASH promotional approaches in households, schools, health facilities and communities.
Natalie Carvalho and Slawa Rokicki conduct an internal replication of the first impact evaluation of India’s Janani Suraksha Yojana intervention designed to incentivise the use of formal birthing facilities.
In 2014, global humanitarian assistance totalled US$24.5 billion. The World Humanitarian Assistance Report (2015) noted that there was still a shortfall of 38 per cent in terms of unmet need. The UN Secretary General’s new report for the World Humanitarian Summit, finds that this gap has increased to 47 per cent. Put another way, humanitarian assistance needs to double to meet current needs.
Publication type : Journal article
Author : Bola Amoke Awotide, Tahirou Abdoulaye, Arega D. Alene, Victor M. Manyong
Sector : Agriculture, fishing, and forestry
Publication type : Journal article
Author : Sheila West, Munoz Beatriz, Matthew Lynch, Andrew Kayongoya, Zefania Chilangwa, BBO Mmbaga, Hugh R. Taylor
Sector : Health
Publication type : Published report
Author : Alexander Nimo Wiredo, Kadir Osman Gyasi, Kofi Marfo, Samuel Asuming-Brempong, Joyce Haleegoah, Alfred Asuming-Boakye, Benjamin Nsiah
Sector : Agriculture, fishing, and forestry