About
The International Initiative for Impact Evaluation (3ie) is a mission-driven non-profit organization dedicated to using evidence to transform people’s lives in low- and middle-income countries.
We collaborate with decision-makers in governments, foundations, NGOs, development and research organizations globally to meet their evidence needs and facilitate the use of evidence in their work.
What we do
We provide a range of evaluation and synthesis services to answer questions about the effectiveness of interventions and deliver tailored capacity-sharing activities in the methods and tools we use.
We are committed to learning by exploring the use of latest methods and technology in our work, and sharing what we learn with the international development community. We also maintain an array of global public goods to improve access to evidence and ensure transparent and ethical practices.
Our diverse portfolio spans key sectors such as agriculture, education, governance, health, livelihoods and nutrition, and pressing global challenges related to peacebuilding, gender and climate change.
Our team members work remotely, and we have offices in New Delhi, London and Washington, DC, along with a secretariat in West Africa. We also have a network of experts through our fellowship program who support our work in different ways.
| Our new strategy (2024-2026) responds to the rapid pace of change and the considerable challenges of today and tomorrow. Our independence and depth of expertise will continue to enable 3ie to work on projects at the frontiers of development practice, improving the creation and use of evidence. |
At a glance
Our vision
Improving lives through evidence-informed decision-making.
Our mission
We partner with governments and development institutions globally to understand and meet their evidence needs, facilitate the use of existing evidence or generate new evidence and support efforts to institutionalize evidence-informed decision-making. We address barriers to evidence use by investing in, managing and maintaining a variety of innovative global public goods aimed at improving the use of and access to rigorous evidence.
Our values
We are committed to ensuring that 3ie maintains a respectful and ethical culture that enables us to be effective in helping our donors and partner institutions to learn and grow. Our values are central to who we are as an organization.
- Respect
- We respect human rights and treat everyone with dignity and fairness.
- We follow and advocate ethical and safe research practices that take context into account.
- We respect our stakeholders’ time and value clear and responsive communication
- Innovation
- We are a learning organization.
- We strive to be creative, adaptive, flexible and solutions-based in addressing complex development problems.
- We balance time-tested approaches with innovation.
- Quality
- We promote use of relevant and rigorous research methods.
- We believe in and promote high standards, be it in research, in fostering quality open data, or in engagement and communication.
- We strive to strengthen the capacity of L&MIC partners to achieve excellence.
- Inclusion
- We see strength in diversity and value the knowledge that comes from people’s diverse experiences.
- We believe in and promote gender equity and have zero tolerance for any form of discrimination.
- We believe research is a public good that should be accessible to as many people as possible.
- Co-creation
- We believe the best solutions come from co-creation. We seek and strengthen partnerships to address complex development problems.
- We advocate for transparent and stakeholder-responsive practices in the evidence community.
- We promote context-relevant and engagement-driven research.
Several partners and donors share our commitment to evidence-informed decision-making and support our work (see list of supporters).
3ie brings together those who wish to use impact evaluation findings with those who conduct them. To ensure useful measurement, it mobilises and focuses resources for relevant questions that matter in the real world, and paves the way for more transparent research practices. 3ie also works closely with governments and NGOs to strengthen their systems for prioritising evaluations and using findings.