Chandan Jain

Chandan Jain
Designation: Senior Evaluation Specialist
Chandan supports 3ie’s livelihoods programmes, including the National Rural Livelihoods Mission and the Women’s Social and Economic Inclusion and Empowerment in India Evidence Programme.
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Journal of Development Effectiveness: walking the talk on TREE (Transparent, Reproducible and Ethical Evidence)

Chandan Jain, Marie Gaarder, Sudhanshu Handa 23 October 2024 blog  

We are excited to launch the special issue of the Journal of Development Effectiveness on Transparent, Reproducible and Ethical Evidence. Through the Journal, 3ie has promoted the publication of high-quality research to improve the process of evidence generation and rigor of impact evaluation studies.

Navigating ethical considerations in evaluations: 3ie's TREE Review Framework in practice

Andrew Tangang, Abishek Nippani, Dale Pereira, Chandan Jain 03 October 2024 blog  
Earlier this year, we collaborated with the Education Endowment Foundation (EEF) and Effective Basic Services Africa (eBASE Africa) to implement 3ie’s TREE Review Framework in two of their upcoming evaluations in Cameroon. The objective was to identify ethical and security issues in evaluation and share capacity to enhance the understanding and approach of local partners toward conducting ethical research.

Five lessons from our Transparent, Reproducible, and Ethical Evidence (TREE) reviews

Chandan Jain, Charlotte Lane, Andrew Tangang, Jennifer Sturdy, Bidisha Barooah 22 March 2023 blog  
We have been consolidating our efforts to develop stronger systems for producing transparent, reproducible, and ethical evidence (TREE). We have emphasized asking ourselves the right questions at the right times, even when there are no easy answers. We’ve examined very specific questions such as: Does a state of scarcity or equipoise make it ethical to withhold an intervention from a control group?

Best practices for working with survey partners and monitoring data quality

Saumya Mathur, Chandan Jain 30 November 2022 blog  
Collecting primary data for impact evaluations can be both costly and time-intensive, especially in terms of planning, designing survey instruments, setting up field protocols, training enumerators, data collection, supervision, quality assurance, and handling field-level challenges. Evaluators and researchers often partner with survey firms to implement and manage field operations for data collection.

Three ways theories of change are helping evaluate a complex initiative to improve waste pickers’ lives

Stuti Tripathi, Chandan Jain, Indira Patil, Saumya Mathur 16 May 2022 blog  
Urban waste pickers face several intertwined challenges such as low incomes, limited education, poor health, social marginalization, and domestic violence. In Bengaluru, India, 3ie is currently evaluating an initiative called Saamuhika Shakti, which adopts an innovative ‘Collective Impact’ approach to improving the lives of informal waste pickers. The initiative, just like the problems it looks to address, is complex.