Leveraging evidence to enhance IDB’s development impact in LAC
3ie is collaborating with the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) to strengthen its commitment to evidence-informed decision-making in Latin America and the Caribbean. The partnership aims to enhance IDB’s operational effectiveness and ensure its interventions are impactful and sustainable. To achieve these goals, 3ie will support the IDB in adopting a rigorous methodology to produce evidence gap maps (EGMs). The project includes an in-depth review of IDB’s methods to produce an EGM on policing literature within the citizen security sector and a co-produced EGM on transportation.
About the project
The Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) has taken a significant step toward producing Evidence Gap Maps (EGMs) to strengthen evidence-informed decision-making. In the citizen security and justice sector, the IDB utilized its Security and Justice Evidence-based Platform to map existing literature on the effectiveness of policing interventions. This work organizes evidence into a framework of interventions (solutions) and outcomes (targeted issues), offering a clear and structured view of the current evidence landscape.
To ensure the quality of this initiative, 3ie experts will evaluate the Citizen Security EGM against gold-standard methodologies for EGM production.
In addition to this, 3ie will provide training on best practices and collaborate with the IDB to guide and coproduce a new EGM focused on the transportation sector. This effort will aim to help direct future research and inform policy decisions by identifying areas where evidence is lacking.
By combining the IDB’s sector-specific expertise with 3ie’s leadership in evidence synthesis, this partnership is poised to deliver high-quality evidence mapping tailored to meet the region’s critical policy information needs.