Other evaluations

3ie supports formative or process evaluations to help determine if an impact evaluation will be feasible or to inform its design. We are making selected ones available through our publication database. Please visit our programme pages to find complete lists of formative or process evaluations that may have been done for a given programme.

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Other evaluations

Introducing risk management tools to a large-scale agricultural development programme in Senegal

Other evaluation 3ie PDF icon 2020  
Authors of this report evaluate the implementation and marketing strategies of an index-based crop insurance in Senegal. The index-based crop insurance was added to an existing support package offered to producers’ organisations, to better control the risks incurred on the main cereal crops due to changing climatic conditions.

Experimental games to teach farmers about weather index insurance in Kenya

Other evaluation 3ie PDF icon 2020  
Authors of this report evaluate two innovative interventions designed to increase demand for basis-risk focused weather index insurance products among smallholder producers in a sub-county of Tharaka Nithi in Kenya.

Picture-based crop insurance: using farmers’ smartphone pictures to reduce basis risk and costs of loss verification

Other evaluation 3ie PDF icon 2020  
Authors of this formative evaluation report assess an intervention that seeks to leverage new technologies to improve coverage and affordability of a weather-based index insurance in Haryana, India.

Evaluation of a gamified mLearning solution for training micro insurance agents in Kenya

Other evaluation 3ie PDF icon 2020  
Authors of this report assess the potential of mLearning and other ICT-related approaches for cost-effective training of sales agents for an index-based micro-insurance product in the arid and semi-arid regions of Kenya.

Improving trust and relaxing liquidity constraints to enhance uptake of weather insurance in Ethiopia

Other evaluation 3ie PDF icon 2020  
Authors of this study assess if the uptake of an index-based insurance product can be enhanced through marketing activities led by local cooperatives and by introducing a premium payment system designed to promote financial inclusion.

Learning from a publicly subsidised agricultural insurance: evidence from Bolivia

Other evaluation 3ie PDF icon 2020  
Authors of this report assess the feasibility and acceptability of the PIRWA insurance programme among smallholder farmers living in poverty in Bolivia. The PIRWA is a publicly funded, zero-fee insurance programme designed to mitigate risk against damages caused by floods, droughts, hailstorm and frost.

Enhancing access to weather index agricultural insurance in Burkina Faso: a new marketing approach

Other evaluation 3ie PDF icon 2020  
Authors of this report explore the marketability of a rainfall index insurance product targeted at urban migrants in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, who have relatives engaged in farming in their native villages.

Measurement of latrine use in rural India

Other evaluation 3ie PDF icon 2019  
To understand the effectiveness of efforts to support latrine us, the behaviour must be accurately measured. This study compares reported rates of latrine use between an individual-level, balanced question and a household-level imbalanced question.

Improving vaccination initiation and completion via vaccine indicator and reminder bands: a formative study in Nigeria

Other evaluation 3ie PDF icon 2019  
According to the World Health Organisation, Nigeria accounts for approximately 28 per cent of global child mortality due to vaccine-preventable diseases.

Increasing immunisation in Karachi, Pakistan: a feasibility and acceptability study of the vaccine indicator and reminder band community intervention

Other evaluation 3ie PDF icon 2019  
This study explores the feasibility and acceptability of using anklets worn by children as a visual reminder for caregivers to encourage timely initiation and completion of routine immunisation in Pakistan