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What indices fail to tell us: Food hygiene and dietary shift among rural women in Rajasthan

Marie Gaarder honoured for advancing evidence-based policymaking

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Marie Gaarder honoured for advancing evidence-based policymaking

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Women's journey from the kitchen to the community spaces in rural India

A collective initiative to support evidence synthesis and use in education

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A collective initiative to support evidence synthesis and use in education

Transforming rural livelihoods in India: Findings from NRETP and NRLM evaluation

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Transforming rural livelihoods in India: Findings from NRETP and NRLM evaluation

Voices of change - the women of DAY-NRLM

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Voices of change - the women of DAY-NRLM

Effects of promoting management of the social, political, and institutional environment on conflict in the Polochic Valley

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Effects of promoting management of the social, political, and institutional environment on…

Momentum Grows for Evidence-Informed Development: New Signatories Join the Global Evidence Commitment at Oslo Convening

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Momentum Grows for Evidence-Informed Development: New Signatories Join the Global Evidence…

Launching the Egyptian Observatory for Evaluation & Policy Making: A milestone partnership for evidence use

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Launching the Egyptian Observatory for Evaluation & Policy Making: A milestone partnership…

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05 Jan 2026

What indices fail to tell us: Food hygiene and dietary shift among rural women in Rajasthan

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18 Dec 2025

Women's journey from the kitchen to the community spaces in rural India

West African Development Bank headquarters in Lomé
10 Dec 2025

Why long-term partnerships matter for development: Insights from 3ie’s collaboration with…

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21 Nov 2025

Can local peacebuilding work? Promising evidence from two new studies

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07 Nov 2025

Launching an evidence gap map on the learning-to-earning transition: A call for papers

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05 Nov 2025

Community resource persons—driving rural livelihoods transformation in India

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05 Nov 2025

What does evidence-informed policymaking look like? A framework for conceptualising and…

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30 Oct 2025

China’s explosion of impact evaluations: what it means for the global evidence base

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14 Oct 2025

Ethics advances at JDEff for our peacebuilding special issue and beyond

Marie Gaarder honoured for advancing evidence-based policymaking
07 Jan 2026

Marie Gaarder honoured for advancing evidence-based policymaking

Momentum Grows for Evidence-Informed Development: New Signatories Join the Global Evidence Commitment at Oslo Convening
11 Nov 2025

Momentum Grows for Evidence-Informed Development: New Signatories Join the Global Evidence…

Voices of change - the women of DAY-NRLM
19 Sep 2025

Voices of change - the women of DAY-NRLM

A collective initiative to support evidence synthesis and use in education
23 Sep 2025

A collective initiative to support evidence synthesis and use in education

AI investment to transform global policy with real-time scientific evidence
25 Sep 2025

AI investment to transform global policy with real-time scientific evidence

Transforming rural livelihoods in India: Findings from NRETP and NRLM evaluation
26 Dec 2025

Transforming rural livelihoods in India: Findings from NRETP and NRLM evaluation

Effects of promoting management of the social, political, and institutional environment on conflict in the Polochic Valley
05 Dec 2025

Effects of promoting management of the social, political, and institutional environment on…

Building weather-index-based insurance with agricultural loans: An evaluation of impact on insurance uptake and farmers’ wellbeing (2018–2022)
12 Nov 2025

Building weather-index-based insurance with agricultural loans: An evaluation of impact on…

From risk to resilience? The impact of weather index insurance bundled with agricultural loans in Senegal
12 Nov 2025

From risk to resilience? The impact of weather index insurance bundled with agricultural…

Designing effective land management programmes for both people and the environment
13 Nov 2025

Designing effective land management programmes for both people and the environment

Uptake and evaluation of innovative insurance-embedded credit for promoting resilience and livelihoods among smallholder farmers in Kenya
29 Jul 2025

Uptake and evaluation of innovative insurance-embedded credit for promoting resilience and…

What do we know about the effectiveness of Small-Quantity Lipid-Based Nutrient Supplements (SQ-LNS) programs?
11 Nov 2025

What do we know about the effectiveness of Small-Quantity Lipid-Based Nutrient Supplements…

ADN Dignidad long-term impact evaluation
25 Jul 2025

ADN Dignidad long-term impact evaluation

Mapping the evidence on learning to earning interventions in low- and middle-income countries: A framework proposal and scoping review
21 May 2025

Mapping the evidence on learning to earning interventions in low- and middle-income…

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Nutrition and Food Security

Everyone needs reliable access to sufficient, safe and affordable nutritious food, coupled with a sanitary environment, adequate health, education and care. However, all too often, this need is not fu...
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Promoting and Mapping Sustainable Energy Evidence to Achieve SDG7

Delivering sustainable energy for all (SDG7) is key to making progress on several sustainable goals.
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Rural India Livelihoods Project

India's Deendayal Antyodaya Yojana-National Rural Livelihoods Mission aims to link the rural poor to sustainable livelihood opportunities and financial services. 3ie has been generating rigorous evide...
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Understanding Impacts of El Niño and the Indian Ocean Dipole in the Indo-Pacific

Climate events have significant consequences on societies and economies, deeply affecting people’s livelihoods, income, food security, and health conditions. Climate patterns can influenc...
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West Africa Capacity-building and Impact Evaluation

The West Africa Capacity-building and Impact Evaluation (WACIE) program is a regional initiative that supports and promotes the culture of evidence-informed decision-making among high-lev...
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Transparent, Reproducible and Ethical Evidence (TREE)

3ie champions the research transparency and reproducibility movement as a means of understanding and mitigating challenges to the credibility of social science research, while also workin...
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Marie-Gaarder

Marie Gaarder

Executive Director
Birte Snilstveit

Birte Snilstveit

Director – Synthesis and Reviews and Head of London office
Hitesh Somani

Hitesh Somani

Director - Finance and Administration
Neelakshi Mann

Neelakshi Mann

Program Director - Asia
Sebastian Martinez

Sebastian Martinez

Director of Evaluation
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Thomas Kelly

Director – Evidence for Policy and Learning
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Registry for International Development Impact...

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Journal of Development Effectiveness

The journal publishes papers reporting evidence of impact of development interventions

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