These briefs provide plain-language summaries of the intervention, impact evaluation, main findings and recommendations from 3ie-funded studies published in our report series.
This evaluation showed that delivery of drugs by community health workers to clinically stable patients is not inferior to standard care, where patients visit a clinic-based doctor to refill prescriptions.
This brief is based on the findings of an impact evaluation that looks at whether orienting staff at reproductive and child health clinics improves patient appointment attendance rates.
This brief is based on the findings of an impact evaluation that examines whether HIV self-tests increase HIV testing among female sex workers in transit towns.
This brief is based on the findings of an impact evaluation that examines the role of information in addressing the constraints smallholder farmers in Kenya face in adopting agricultural inputs.
This brief is based on an evaluation of an intervention to integrate Early Infant Diagnosis of HIV into routine Expanded Programme of Immunisation services.
More often than not, programmes targeted at households lead to changes that have economy-wide impact. This may be especially true for public works programmes that invest in building community assets. The brief draws on the findings from two impact evaluations that assess the Productive Safety Net Programme in Ethiopia holistically, exploring impacts both at the beneficiary household level and economy-wide impacts at the local and national levels.
This brief is based on the findings of an impact evaluation of two state government aimed at improving maternal health, especially among women living below the poverty line.
This brief is based on the findings of an evaluation that examines the impact of a community-managed conditional cash transfer programme on outcomes related to community relations, health and education of household members.
Despite nearly universal uptake of HIV testing among women clients in antenatal care, testing among their male partners remains low. This brief summarises the findings of an impact evaluation by Gichangi and colleagues which assesses the effectiveness of providing HIV self-test kits to women to encourage testing among their male partners, as opposed to inviting men for a finger-prick HIV blood test at the antenatal clinic.
This brief outlines the findings of an impact evaluation by Kelvin and colleagues on the effectiveness of offering Kenyan truck drivers the choice of administering self-test at a clinic or at home, together with in-person or phone-based counselling to encourage testing.
