Beryl Leach

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Designation: Former Director and Head of Policy and Advocacy, 3ie
Beryl Leach was director and head of the Policy, Advocacy and Communication Office (PACO). She also was a member of 3ie’s senior management team.

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From capacity building to developing capacities: dreaming big about improving evidence use

Beryl Leach, Ruth Stewart 22 February 2019 blog  
Knowledge and information sharing are two of the main reasons people join the Africa Evidence Network (AEN). More specifically, demand for more capacity development for evidence production and use comes up again and again in our webinars, in blogs from our members and in what they share with us via the AEN website and newsletter. We see this demand in the high turnout for workshops at our biennial AEN conference. Yet, people we talk with are frustrated with the types of capacity development on offer in our region.

Early engagement improves REDD+ and early warning system design and proposals

Heather Lanthorn, Jyotsna Puri, Stuti Tripathi, Beryl Leach 08 September 2014 blog  

At 3ie, our mission is to fund the generation and sharing of sound, useful evidence on the impacts of development programmes and policies work. Actually, we’re more curious (or nosy) than that. For impact evaluation that matters, we need to know which bits of a programme worked, which didn’t, why and through which mechanisms, in which contexts and for what costs.

How much evidence is enough for action?

Beryl Leach, Hugh Waddington 04 March 2014 blog  

One of the most useful ways in which evidence from rigorous evaluations can be used is to help policymakers take decisions on going to scale. Notable recent examples of scaled-up interventions based on high-quality synthesised evidence are conditional cash transfers programmes and early child development (pre-school) programmes.