Events

The 2022 CEDIL conference will feature expert speakers from around the world. They will share experiences and lessons learned on generating and using evidence during a crisis. The conference will also be an opportunity to discuss innovative approaches, methods, and themes that have gained importance during the pandemic – including evaluating complex development interventions, using big data and machine learning, and developing rigorous approaches for transferring evidence and applying learning across contexts.

The Berkeley Initiative for Transparency in the Social Sciences (BITSS) Annual Meeting brought together actors from academia, scholarly publishing, and policy to share novel research and discuss efforts to improve the credibility of social science by advancing research transparency, reproducibility, rigor, and ethics. This year’s keynote address on 10 February was given by 2021 Nobel Laureate David Card (UC Berkeley), who discussed the credibility (r)evolution in empirical research.

The Digital Development Dialogue (3D) seminar is a monthly online forum for policy and research exchange. In the seminar on 18 November, 3ie's Etienne Lwamba, in discussion with Angela Heucher from DEval, presented insights from our recently-launched systematic review ‘Strengthening women’s empowerment and gender equality in fragile contexts’.

This edition of the Evidence Dialogues brought together experts who discussed the review’s findings and deliberated on what else can be done to increase impact and production of evidence on this important subject.

The What Works Global Summit 2021 is organized by the Campbell Collaboration and the Global Development Network (GDN) as the Evidence for Development conference, online. The conference will target 400 participants, drawn from a diverse group of researchers, evaluators, policymakers, representatives of international organizations, civil society, development practitioners and the private sector.