Latest blogs

Evidence impact: Research showed unconditional cash transfers work. Now they're everywhere

Kanika Jha Kingra, Kirthi Rao, Paul Thissen 22 December 2021 blog  
Across the world, governments used cash transfers, including unconditional transfers, to shield vulnerable people from the economic hardships of the COVID-19 pandemic. As of December 2020, cash transfer schemes made up more than a third of the estimated 1400 social protection responses to the pandemic across 215 countries and territories.

Evidence Impact: Taking HIV self-testing from pilot programs to global implementation

Paul Thissen 12 November 2021 blog  
In March of this year, UNAIDS launched the In Your Hands HIV self-testing campaign in the Caribbean, aiming to increase the proportion of HIV-positive individuals who know their status. In January, Senegal's government approved its new HIV self-testing strategy, working with a donor-funded program to promote and distribute the HIV self-tests in West Africa. These efforts join others around the world, with a push from the World Health Organization for countries to fast-track HIV self-testing.

Evidence impact: Putting the brakes on a childhood nutrition program with unintended consequences

Kirthi Rao 02 November 2021 blog  
Even bad news can be useful. In this case, as part of an upgrade of Colombia's childcare centres, a foundation called Fundación Éxito had planned to fund a new nutrition program for children. But it reversed course after an impact evaluation showed that the new nutrition component seemed to do more harm than good. Children's nutrition did not improve and some gained an excessive amount of weight.

Evidence impact: informing better monitoring and measurement of interventions

Avni Mishra, Kirthi Rao 28 September 2021 blog  
How helpful can an evaluation be if it shows an intervention had no effects on desired outcomes? The first evaluation of a community-driven reconstruction (CDR) program called Tuungane, implemented in the Democratic Republic of Congo, is one such study. The evaluation did not show positive effects on all desired social and behavioural outcomes, but it did help the implementer, International Rescue Committee (IRC), revamp some of its systems.

Evidence impact: Improving education worldwide through the use of systematic review evidence

Paul Thissen 05 August 2021 blog  
With development evidence, as with many things, more is generally better. But there's a caveat: lots of evidence on a topic can easily be overwhelming unless there's a good synthesis to tease out the strong findings from the background noise.

Evidence impact: Increasing immunization rates by engaging community leaders

Paul Thissen, Kirthi Rao 10 June 2021 blog  
In Nigeria, as in much of the developing world, many children never receive their full set of recommended immunizations. Even among children who receive some vaccinations, not all return for subsequent doses or later shots. In 2019, only 57 percent of infants in Nigeria completed their three-shot course of the DTP (diphtheria, tetanus, pertussis) vaccine.

Related content

Impact evaluation of the Philippine Special Program for Employment of Students

27 January 2021 video  

The 2013 World Bank Development Report on jobs identified youth unemployment as one of the key barriers to growth among developing countries.

How evidence helped address ultra poverty in Malawi

27 January 2021 video  

The Malawi Social Cash Transfer Programme aims to address the needs of the most vulnerable populations, which are constrained from participating in the labour force because of age (too old or young), chronic illnesses or disabilities.

Preparation meets opportunity: how 3ie’s stakeholder engagement paid off on HIV self-testing

Anna Heard 30 August 2017 blog  

The last few weeks have been a bit of a whirlwind. What I know is that HIV self-testing has finally made it. At this year’s International AIDS Society (IAS) Conference on HIV Science there were an array of posters, oral abstract presentations and satellite sessions on research related to HIV self-testing.

Quick Actions

Most popular blogs

Tags

Authors

About

Evidence Matters is 3ie’s blog. It primarily features contributions from staff and board members. Guest blogs are by invitation.

3ie publishes blogs in the form received from the authors. Any errors or omissions are the sole responsibility of the authors. Views expressed are their own and do not represent the opinions of 3ie, its board of commissioners or supporters.

Archives