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Martin Ravallion, poverty researcher and impact evaluation pioneer: 1952-2022

Martin, regularly ranked amongst the world’s leading development economists, played a central role in the mainstreaming of poverty in the development agenda. In these days of the SDGs, younger people…

3ie Living Evidence Gap Map: New food systems evaluations focus on the big picture

Food systems transformation is a global problem, and increasingly evaluations of food systems interventions are considering national and transnational solutions. The world's food system is under…

One small step for Norway, one giant leap for evidence-informed decision-making in Norwegian aid

If economists are the ‘dismal scientists’ always harping on about limited resources, evaluators are often considered the ‘pessimist scientists’ who only see the half-empty glass, rather than the half…

Best practices for working with survey partners and monitoring data quality

Collecting primary data for impact evaluations can be both costly and time-intensive, especially in terms of planning, designing survey instruments, setting up field protocols, training enumerators,…

Five ways process evaluation is helping us evaluate an aquaculture project in Bangladesh

Integrating mixed-methods approaches with impact evaluations like process evaluations and implementation studies has been in practice for a while, and for very good reasons. In this blog, we share…