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Publication

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

Using smartphone raffles to increase demand for voluntary medical male circumcision in Tanzania

Impact evaluation 3ie

2016

The pilot study in Tanzania targeted men between 20 to 34 years of age at VMMC clinics where nationally set targets were not met.

The use of peer referral incentives to increase demand for voluntary medical male circumcision in Zambia

Impact evaluation 3ie

2016

This study evaluates the effectiveness of a pilot intervention conducted in Zambia that provided small financial incentives to circumcision clients who successfully referred their peers to also see

Using advertisements to create demand for voluntary medical male circumcision in South Africa

Impact evaluation 3ie

2016

The intervention consisted of distributing postcards with a compensation offer, information on a possibly unknown benefit of VMMC and/or a framing message to households in Soweto, South Africa.

The Productive Safety Net Programme in Ethiopia: impacts on children’s schooling, labour and nutritional status

Impact evaluation 3ie

2017

This study examines whether Ethiopia’s Productive Safety Net Programme (PNSP) has had additional impacts on children’s schooling, labour and nutrition.

Better Obstetrics in Rural Nigeria: evaluating the Midwives Service Scheme

Impact evaluation 3ie

2017

This evaluation measures the impact of the Midwives Service Scheme, a government programme introduced in 2009 to increase access to skilled obstetric care in underserved rural areas.

What evidence is available and what is required in humanitarian assistance?

Scoping paper 3ie

2014

Most areas in the humanitarian sector suffer from a paucity of evidence.

What factors affect sustained adoption of safe water, hygiene and sanitation technologies?

Systematic review summary 3ie

2015

Safe water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) behaviours, such as treating drinking water, washing hands at key times or using a latrine rather than defecating in open spaces, are cornerstones of building strong, healthy communities and reducing mortality due to diarrhoea and other preventable diseases. Many studies have shown the health benefits of WASH, and factors that affect initial adoption of short-term WASH use. Few have assessed the determinants of long-term, sustained WASH practice.

Identification and measurement of health-related spillovers in impact evaluations

Systematic review summary 3ie

2016

This systematic review summary by Benjamin-Chung and colleagues tries to identify mechanisms that trigger spillover through geographic or social proximity, learning or imitation, norm-shaping, income and substitute effects, general equilibrium effects and relative deprivation.