Seminars

Our seminars provide a platform for researchers, policymakers and programme managers to share lessons learned from evaluations and reviews in a wide-variety of sectors.

We organise monthly seminars in Delhi to promote public discussions on the production and use of high-quality evidence for informing decision-making. We also organise the monthly 3ie-LIDC seminar series ‘What works in international development,’ in London

Upcoming events

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Previous events

12
December 2018
London

To boldly go where no evaluator has gone before: the CEDIL evaluation agenda

Seminar 12 December 2018 London
Edoardo Masset introduced the newly established Centre of Excellence on Development Impact and Learning (CEDIL), which was set up by DFID to develop new evaluation methods and to commission evaluation and synthesis studies in neglected areas of international development.

01
November 2018
New Delhi

Does promoting citizen engagement in governance of public services improve development outcomes?

Seminar 01 November 2018 New Delhi
3ie's Hugh Waddington shared findings from an upcoming mixed-method systematic review on interventions that promote citizen engagement in public service governance, through participatory and inclusive planning, community based monitoring, and provision of information about rights and performance of public services

31
October 2018
London

Uncertainty and its consequences in social policy evaluation and evidence-based decision-making

Seminar 31 October 2018 London
Matthew Jukes (RTI International) talked about how a more systematic analysis of uncertainty and its consequences can improve approaches to decision-making and to the generation of evidence.

30
August 2018
New Delhi

Using mid-level theory to understand behavioural change: examples from health and evidence-based policy

Seminar 30 August 2018 New Delhi
In this talk, Howard White (Campbell Collaboration) adopted the trans-theoretical model of behaviour change to apply mid-level theory to the analysis of two sets of interventions: the adoption of health behaviour, and promoting evidence-based policy change

Dss august

Promoting filtered water delivery in rural Bihar

Seminar 14 August 2018 New Delhi
Drew Cameron (UC Berkeley School of Public Health) spoke about the study design and formative results of a cluster randomised evaluation that aims to identify the impacts of a novel potable water delivery service in rural Bihar.

18
July 2018
London

Development impact attribution: mental models and methods in ‘mixed marriage’ evaluations

Seminar 18 July 2018 London
James Copestake (University of Bath) used the ‘marriage’ metaphor to explore collaboration that spans academic traditions and disciplines, researchers and managers, and public and private sector agencies.

DSS Priyanka

Transforming the lives of women through productivity improvements in small ruminants

Seminar 29 June 2018 New Delhi
Priyanka Dubey discussed major findings from the Project Mesha study and how it helped develop the output and outcome indicators that could be tracked at baseline, midline and endline, of an impact evaluation.

07
June 2018
London

Assessing the effectiveness of services provided by Cocoa Board (COCOBOD): Ghana's success story

Seminar 07 June 2018 London
Panellists in this session examined the factors that contributed Ghana’s success in the cocoa sector.

Understanding the role of evidence to inform sanitation policy in India

Understanding the role of evidence to inform sanitation policy in India

Seminar 29 May 2018 New Delhi
On World Toilet Day 2017, 3ie organised a panel discussion on the use of evidence to inform India’s sanitation policies and programming.

30
April 2018
London

Representing theories of change technical challenges and evaluation consequences

Seminar 30 April 2018 London
Rick Davies (M&E consultant) spoke about the technical issues associated with the representation of theories of change and the implications of design choices for the evaluability of those theories.