Douglas Glandon

Douglas Glandon
Designation: Chief - Strategic Initiatives
Douglas guides and implements 3ie's strategic direction, with an emphasis on technical innovation and efficient, high-quality delivery of services to our partners. He also heads 3ie strategic initiatives, including in data innovations, cost evidence, and training.
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Three ways you can start using remote sensing for measuring impact

Aayush Malik, Douglas Glandon, Jane Hammaker, Katherine Quant, Sayak Khatua 20 January 2022 blog  
Remote sensing has the power to transform and complement traditional approaches to impact evaluation. With the emergence of new technologies and the deployment of advanced sensors aboard satellites, there is an increase in the use of satellite imagery to measure impact in low- and middle-income countries across the world.

Assessing the impact of policy and institutional reforms in international development

Carolyn Huang, Zeba Siddiqui, Douglas Glandon, Sayak Khatua, Aayush Malik 13 January 2022 blog  
For decades, development actors have recognized that good governance and solid country systems are essential for the effective delivery of well-designed, evidence-based interventions. A number of development organizations and initiatives have, therefore, emerged with explicit missions to strengthen the capacity and performance of publicly-mandated political and administrative institutional structures (for e.g., World Bank’s Global Governance practice and USAID Center for Democracy, Human Rights, and Governance)

Despite the hype, do not expect big data to replace traditional surveys anytime soon

Douglas Glandon, Ran Goldblatt, Maria Ruth Jones, Bilal Siddiqi 07 January 2021 blog  
The COVID-19 pandemic has created new hype around the potential for new, ‘big’, data sources to revolutionize data collection, and change the landscape of evidence for policy. Non-traditional data sources - like satellite imagery, call detail records, and social media posts—do offer exciting opportunities to track and understand processes on Earth across space and time like never possible before.

How do electricity access interventions affect social outcomes? A forthcoming systematic review.

Ari Perdana, Douglas Glandon, Nick Moore, Birte Snilstveit 24 February 2020 blog  
In 2017, around 89 per cent of the global population, predominantly based in high-income countries, were fortunate enough to have access to a reliable source of electricity and were able to go about their personal and professional lives without the risk of a power cut, let alone the prospect of having no electricity access at all.