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

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Previous events

30
April 2018
London

The four waves of the evidence revolution: progress and challenges in evidence-based policy and practice

Seminar 30 April 2018 London
In this seminar, Howard White (CEDIL, Campbell Collaboration) provides a historical overview of the evidence movement and the challenges it faces

25
March 2018
London

Asset transfers to women in poverty in South Asia: qualitative reflections on two Randomized Control Trials

Seminar 25 March 2018 London
Nabila Kabeer (LSE) shared findings from a qualitative analysis to reflect on the strengths and limitations of RCTs as an approach to evaluation and to support arguments for greater methodological pluralism in the study of development interventions.

14
March 2018
London

Where next for evaluations of water and sanitation interventions in L&MIC cities?

Seminar 14 March 2018 London
While a concerted effort has been made to improve water and sanitation in low-and middle-income countries, results often fall short of expectations. Richard Lilford (University of Warwick) discussed where evidence is needed most

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Transforming women’s lives: lessons from the impact assessment of the Shaurya Dal programme

Seminar 08 March 2018 New Delhi
3ie hosted a special seminar as part of the Delhi Seminar series to mark the International Women’s Day 2018 on 8 March. The theme for the seminar was focused on rural and urban activists transforming women's lives.

Seminar LIDC

Child marriage and infant mortality: causal evidence from the Ethiopian child marriage ban

Seminar 24 January 2018 London
Jorge Garcia (LSE) presented findings of a study on understand the impact of a law that raised the legal age of marriage for women from 15 to 18 years in some regions of Ethiopia. While the law did not end child marriage, it had large effects on its incidence.

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Evidence synthesis: the third wave of the evidence revolution

Seminar 13 December 2017 New Delhi

In this seminar, Howard White described what governments and international agencies across the world are doing to embrace the third wave. The event was chaired by Pierre Jacquet, president Global Development Network/ Santosh Mathew, former joint secretary, Ministry of Rural Development,Governemnt of India, was the discussant.

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The role of cost-effectiveness analysis in health policy decision making

Seminar 27 October 2017 New Delhi
In this seminar, Denny John presented a case study on the use of economic evidence in systematic reviews and results from a recently published study on ‘cost effectiveness analysis of decentralised care model for multi-drug-resistant tuberculosis in India’.

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The role of primary research and big data to evaluate Aadhaar

Seminar 22 September 2017 New Delhi
In this seminar, IDinsight’s Ronald Abraham and Elizabeth Bennett presented excerpts from their State of Aadhaar Report 2016-17, which provides an overview of the Aadhaar landscape and highlights areas for future research.

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Do farmers learn from extension services? Evidence from Malawi

Seminar 23 August 2017 New Delhi
In this seminar, Annemie Maertnens presented results from a 3ie-funded impact evaluation in Malawi on the effects of these two primary models on farmer learning and adoption of integrated soil fertility management practices.

Peer comparison interventions: cases from developing countries

Peer comparison interventions: cases from developing countries

Seminar 13 July 2017 New Delhi
In this talk, Saugato Datta presented results from three recently concluded field RCTs which leveraged this insight to address challenges in very different domains: low uptake of long-acting contraception in Nepal, wastage of electricity in a commercial setting in South Africa and households' overuse of water in Costa Rica.