Explore 3ie’s new inventory of remote-sensing indicators to leverage satellite data for development

Imagine you are an evaluator trying to determine whether an agricultural intervention has increased vegetation in a dry, arid, and conflict-prone region—where on-the-ground data collection is…

What happens when women come together to lead businesses in rural India?

The Swashakt program launched by 3ie, with support from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, helps answer key aspects of this central question. Swashakt supported women’s empowerment collectives …

Learning from more than two decades of market access interventions for smallholder farmers

Subsistence or small-scale farming remains the primary source of livelihood for households in rural areas. Numerous factors inhibit farmers’ access and participation in markets—farmers being too far…

New FCDO Research Commissioning Centre funding round to understand evidence use in policymaking

The first stream of funding will focus on learning from examples of evidence use in practice in economic policymaking. The second stream will be dedicated to evaluations of initiatives designed to…

Evidence on climate, biodiversity and livelihoods highly concentrated thematically and geographically

Climate change alters or destroys ecosystems on land, oceans and coasts, leading species to extinction, forcing animals to migrate for survival and resulting in the emergence of non-native invasive…