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Media
This section brings together our multimedia products covering a wide range of topics and sectors to showcase 3ie's activities and work. It is also home to key knowledge-sharing as well as training resources produced by our teams over the years - many of them in collaboration with key partners. Whether you are an evaluator, educator, communicator or member of the media, this section helps you stay on top of our latest videos, podcasts, news and features.
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Food System and Nutrition Evidence Gap Map
Evidence gap maps and syntheses are particularly important for helping researchers, funders, and decision-makers quickly digest massive amounts of information. Developed with support from Innovative Metrics for Agriculture and Nutrition Actions (IMMANA), the living EGM has been commissioned by Germany’s Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) through Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit's (GIZ) 'Knowledge for Nutrition' program.
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Evaluation of the Supreme Court reforms in the Philippines | 3ie Philippines Evidence Programme
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Making extractives inclusive|3ie Transparency & Accountability in Natural Resources Evidence Program
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Intro: Towards economic empowerment and self-empowerment of women
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3ie's Swashakt podcast series aims to explore the pathways towards economic empowerment and self-empowerment for women - primarily in India but also in other L&MICs.
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Private sector, a lead catalyst to enable change - with Kausalya Nandakumar
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Need for more data where women are visible – with Bidisha Barooah
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Overcoming barriers with information and knowledge – with Sybil Chidiac
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Realizing women’s full potential – with Madhu Krishna
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Social relationships and new opportunities – with Anjini Kochar
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The power of collectives – with Isabel Guerrero
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Nutrition International and 3ie Launch Evidence Gap Map to Combat Anaemia
Latest News and Features
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Prioritize evidence in aid spending—time for ‘Fakta har matka
The world is facing escalating global warming, increasingly deadly conflicts, and a significant shortfall in achieving the Sustainable Development Goals. The most obvious solution is to optimize the impact of development spending.
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Details of the total number of women who have benefited from the Lakhpati Didi and Namo Didi initiatives, State-wise and…
The Deendayal Antodaya Yojana – National Rural Livelihoods Mission (DAY-NRLM) is a centrally sponsored scheme of the Ministry of Rural Development. This is being implemented across the country (except Delhi & Chandigarh) with the objective to alleviate rural poverty inter-alia, through organizing the rural poor women into Self Help Groups (SHGs)
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‘Known unknowns’, or how to plug the gaps in public research
In 1979, Archie Cochrane published an essay chastising (not for the first time) his fellow doctors. “It is surely a great criticism of our profession,” he wrote, “that we have not organised a critical summary, by speciality or subspeciality, adapted periodically, of all relevant randomised controlled trials.”
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Unearthing ‘hidden’ science would help to tackle the world’s biggest problems | Nature
On 22 and 23 September, world leaders will meet in New York City at an unusual Summit of the Future. Devised by United Nations secretary-general António Guterres, the meeting aims to bolster global efforts to build a better world.
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3ie welcomes USAID to the Global Evidence Commitment
3ie welcomes USAID as the newest member of the Global Evidence Commitment. As part of the Agency’s long-term commitment to evidence, Michele Sumilas, Assistant to the Administrator for Policy, Planning and Learning signed the pledge on behalf of USAID on 2 May 2024. USAID joins other leading development sector institutions that are working together to strengthen mutual learning and support in making better use of rigorous evidence. The founding signatories include the Millennium Challenge Corporation, Inter-American Development Bank, KfW Development Bank, Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation, Foreign, Commonwealth Development Office, and 3ie. The Global Evidence Commitment was launched in October 2023 as a collaborative effort to improve evidence culture and use in our organizations and encourage others to undertake similar efforts by illustrating the importance of its far-reaching impacts. As the convenor of the pledge, 3ie is proud to facilitate our partners in this process. To know more about the pledge, please reach us at globalevidencecommitment@3ieimpact.org.Read the pledge
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Weaving through generations: Productivity gains in family-owned businesses in rural India
In Andhra Pradesh and Telangana, weaving is often a family enterprise. Using data from over 1,800 households, this ongoing mixed-methods evaluation by Patel et al. shows that households with multi-generational weaving businesses earn more in weaving revenue and have greater household incomes relative to households with only one generation of weavers.
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Research Commissioning Centre: Upcoming calls for proposals
Through our recently announced Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) Research Commissioning Centre we intend to launch several calls for proposals in early 2024. The research will cover a range of development and diplomacy topics.
If you are interested in receiving updates about the upcoming opportunities, please sign up here.
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3ie announces centre to manage FCDO research investments
The International Initiative for Impact Evaluation (3ie) is proud to announce the establishment of a new research commissioning centre to support the Research and Evidence Directorate (RED) of the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO). Led by 3ie, the University of Birmingham and an unmatched consortium of UK and global research partners, this centre will help manage strategic investments in science, technology and evidence.