Using evidence to improve children’s foundational skills: a successful teaching and learning approach expands in India and beyond

Pratham, a large education NGO in India, developed the Teaching at the Right Level (TARL) methodology to improve learning outcomes in India. For more than a decade, Pratham and the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab have contributed to the recognition of this methodology as an evidence-informed approach for improving children’s learning outcomes.

This brief tells the story of how impact evaluation evidence informed the scale-up of a government-led TARL model in India and other countries. It also delves into the numerous factors that influenced evidence use in decision-making. This example offers some instructive reminders: (1) evidence of effectiveness does not automatically lead to use; (2) evidence use is not linear or driven by evidence alone; and (3) multiple studies that build from one to the other and are implemented in a variety of settings facilitate decisions to adopt, pilot or scale-up.

How evidence is informing solutions to South Africa’s early grade reading crisis

Evidence use Brief 3ie 2019

In South Africa, 78 per cent of the children in fourth grade struggle to understand the meaning of what they read. An evaluation of the Early Grade Reading Study provides evidence that can help decision makers respond to this reading crisis.

Using evidence to improve pollution regulation in India

Evidence use Brief 3ie 2019

This brief describes how a supportive policy context, strong relationships and wide engagement with decision-makers helped rigorous evaluation findings spur evidence-informed innovation in regulating industrial pollution.

How evidence helped address ultra poverty in Malawi

Evidence use Brief 3ie 2019

The brief highlights the importance of fully considering the political economy context in evaluation design. It also examines a range of contributory factors for evidence use. Evaluation champions who can influence change are important.

Using evidence to inform the scale-up and adoption of biofortified orange sweet potato in Uganda

Evidence use Brief 3ie 2017

In Uganda, vitamin A deficiency is a health challenge, with 28 per cent of preschool children estimated to be deficient. To address this issue, the international organisation HarvestPlus has been promoting vitamin A-enriched orange sweet potato (OSP) to improve the diets of the poor.

Using evidence to prevent violence against women in Uganda

Evidence use Brief 3ie 2017

The brief highlights stakeholders’ uptake and use of study findings of an impact evaluation of, SASA!, a community-based programme to prevent violence against women. It also identifies the main factors, which, together with evidence, facilitated uptake and use.

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Using evidence to improve children’s foundational skills: a successful teaching and learning approach expands in India and beyond

How evidence is informing solutions to South Africa’s early grade reading crisis

Using evidence to improve pollution regulation in India

How evidence helped address ultra poverty in Malawi

Using evidence to inform the scale-up and adoption of biofortified orange sweet potato in Uganda

Using evidence to prevent violence against women in Uganda

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