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How should evaluators respond to a changing global landscape? Ideas from the World Bank IEG's expert panel

Paul Thissen, Marie Gaarder 15 April 2024 blog  
To respond to a rapidly-changing global context, the evaluation community needs to adapt its methods and approaches, according to an expert panel assembled by the World Bank’s Independent Evaluation Group (IEG).

The evidence-to-policy conundrum and how to solve it

David de Ferranti 09 April 2024 blog  
Does better evidence lead to better policies and programs? Massive amounts of reliable evidence, drawing on scientifically strong methods, including randomized controlled trials, mixed-methods approaches, and more, have been generated and disseminated in recent decades. A Nobel Prize has been awarded for that pathbreaking work. Yet the impact of that evidence – on what policymakers and program implementers think and do – has been far below expectations, even pitifully tiny according to some accounts. billion people.

Teaching critical thinking about health: impacts and implications

Andy Oxman, Faith Chesire, Margaret Kaseje, Ronald Ssenyonga 20 March 2024 blog  
Claims about what might improve or harm our health are everywhere. Some of these claims are reliable, but many are not. People often don’t know how to tell the difference. Making decisions based on unreliable claims wastes resources and can result in unnecessary suffering. This problem was exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic, which was accompanied by an “infodemic”— an overload of information, including false or misleading information.

Insights from the Development Evidence Portal – the Middle East and North Africa

Cem Yavuz, Hesham Shafick 04 March 2024 blog  
Continuing our 'state of the evidence' series exploring insights from the DEP – this blog explores and shares key insights from the evidence on the Middle East and North Africa region.

Strengthening Cote d'Ivoire's nutrition strategy with rapid evidence

Annie Vincent, Paul Thissen 08 February 2024 blog  
Côte d'Ivoire faces substantial nutritional challenges, with 17 percent of children under five experiencing stunting and over six percent exhibiting wasting in 2021. Overall, 18 percent of the population grapples with the imminent threat of acute food insecurity. In addition, many communities lack access to safe drinking water and sanitation, which can transmit diseases such as cholera, dysentery and polio. Recurrent infections can also be a major cause of malnutrition and child stunting. 3ie’s WACIE Helpdesk supported the government’s response to the crisis by providing up-to-date evidence to inform and improve its strategy.

Expanding the frontiers of heterogeneity analysis: application of a machine learning method to a gender attitude change program

Fiona Kastel, Devika Lakhote, Geetika Pandya, Douglas Glandon 31 January 2024 blog  
At 3ie, we recently tested a machine learning technique on a previously completed randomized controlled trial (RCT) of a school-based gender attitude change program in Haryana, India to answer this question. We share a few key findings and benefits of employing this method.

Déterminer ce qui fonctionne pour améliorer la nutrition maternelle : début d'une nouvelle évaluation au Bénin

Charlotte Lane, Anca Dumitrescu, Dislène Senan Sossou 04 January 2024 blog  
3ie, en partenariat avec le gouvernement du Bénin, lance l’évaluation d'impact d'une initiative révolutionnaire : un programme de nutrition pratique et évolutif pour améliorer les résultats en matière de santé maternelle et infantile.

Determining what works to improve maternal nutrition: Beginning a new evaluation in Benin

Charlotte Lane, Anca Dumitrescu, Dislène Senan Sossou 04 January 2024 blog  
3ie, in partnership with the Government of Benin, is launching an impact evaluation of a groundbreaking initiative: a practical, scalable nutrition program to improve maternal and infant health outcomes.

Unveiling trends in impact evaluations across Sub-Saharan Africa

Zafeer Ravat , Mark Engelbert 22 December 2023 blog  
With 4262 studies, Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) accounts for the largest number of impact evaluations in the Development Evidence Portal (DEP). The second blog in our 'state of the evidence' series that previously featured Latin America and the Caribbean unpacks the evidence coming from this part of the African continent. The DEP – which remains a global public good – allows us to analyze which countries, interventions and outcomes are the most researched, by whom and in what way.

What works for addressing root cause and drivers of irregular migration? There are few answers to pressing policy questions.

Carolyn Huang, Maria Daniela Anda Leon, Miriam Berretta 20 December 2023 blog  
Mass irregular migration is a pressing global issue, especially for low- and middle-income countries. In 2018, there were over 100 million irregular migrants estimated worldwide (Yayboke and Gallego 2019) and the number continues to increase as more individuals seek better lives, conditions, or livelihoods, or escape from violence, persecution, or repression.

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