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As part of our mandate as a knowledge producer and translator for our main audiences, we maintain a range of free online publication series: briefs, impact evaluation reports, systematic review technical and summary reports, replication papers, evidence gap map reports, scoping, and working papers.

Latest publications

Understanding financial risks for smallholder farmers in low-and middle-income countries: what do we know and not know?

Scoping paper 3ie

2017

3ie undertook this scoping study to inform the focus for the Agricultural Insurance Thematic Window grant-making.

A map of evidence maps relating to sustainable development in low- and middle-income countries

Evidence gap map Brief 3ie

2017

This brief presents the findings of a map of evidence maps related to sustainable development in low-and middle-income countries. The authors catalogued evidence maps within a framework of intervention sectors adapted from the World Bank categorisation and outcomes classified according to the Sustainable Development Goals.

Interventions to improve the labour market for adults living with physical and/or sensory disabilities in low- and middle-income countries: a systematic review

Systematic review 3ie

2017

This systematic review by Tripney and colleagues examines the evidence on the effects of interventions to improve the labour market for adults living with disabilities in low- and middle-income countries.

Impact of the Uddeepan programme on child health and nutrition in India

Impact evaluation 3ie

2017

This report evaluates if the Uddeepan programme in Bihar relaxes labour constraints and improves workers’ abilities, and leads to better maternal knowledge, immunisation rates, availability of take-home rations, enrolment in pre-school centres, and weight-for-age Z scores, a key outcome.

General equilibrium impact assessment of the Productive Safety Net Program in Ethiopia

Impact evaluation 3ie

2017

The Productive Safety Net Program was launched in 2005 to fight chronic food security issues in Ethiopia.

Cash transfers and HIV/HSV-2 prevalence: a replication of a cluster randomized trial in Malawi

Replication paper 3ie 2017

In this paper, Lynette Smith, Nick Hein and Danstan Bagenda conduct a replication study of the influential 2012 publication, Effect of a cash transfer programme for schooling on prevalence of HIV and herpes simplex type 2 in Malawi.

Making networks work for policy: evidence from agricultural technology adoption in Malawi

Impact evaluation 3ie

2016

This report by Beaman et al. tests training diffusion partners chosen using a theory-based selection approach and whether it leads to greater adoption of new agricultural technologies in

Evaluating the effectiveness of computers as tutors in China

Impact evaluation 3ie

2016

This study by Mo et al., looked at the factors that influence the effectiveness of ICT as an educational tool in China.

Effectiveness of a rural sanitation programme on diarrhoea, soil-transmitted helminth infection and malnutrition in India

Impact evaluation 3ie

2016

This report is based on a cluster-randomised evaluation conducted in 100 villages of Odisha to test the effectiveness of a rural sanitation intervention that was part of the India’s Total Sanitation Campaign.

Evaluating the impact of vocational education vouchers on out-of-school youth in Kenya

Impact evaluation 3ie

2016

This study by Hicks et al. assesses the impact of a vocational training programme on out-of-school Kenyan youth aged 17-28 years.

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