Marie Gaarder

Marie Gaarder
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Executive Director
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Marie Gaarder is the executive director of 3ie, leading the organisation’s efforts to improve lives in low- and middle-income countries by supporting the generation and effective use of high-quality and relevant evidence to inform decision-making.
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Asking the right question: evidence, method, and what the RCT debate is missing

The wrong fight: moving beyond the RCT wars toward rigorous learningA response to Todd Moss and Dean KarlanTodd Moss and Dean Karlan are relitigating a familiar argument. The short version is that…

The missing middle: why connecting evidence systems to decision systems is key

The development sector has never had access to more evidence. Decades of impact evaluations, systematic reviews, evidence gap maps, and data systems have produced a substantial body of knowledge (see…

Evidence in a fragmented world: some reflections

Aid has always been shaped by donor interests, but development cooperation is now becoming more overtly interest-driven. Can development outcomes survive inside that new framing? In this blog, I…

How will we ever learn? Towards a sustainable evidence infrastructure

Over the past two decades, the volume of rigorous impact evaluation evidence has grown dramatically. This is a major success for the evidence-informed development community. Yet despite this growth,…

Ethics advances at JDEff for our peacebuilding special issue and beyond

Ethical considerations should remain at the forefront of researchers’ minds when conducting evaluations of development, humanitarian, and peacebuilding interventions. To make sure that authors for…