3ie at USAID Learning and Evidence Month 2023
Agency Learning Agenda Session: Closing Plenary
Hosted by USAID Bureau for Policy, Planning and Learning
This month-long virtual series of learning events highlighted how evidence from the 2022 - 2026 USAID Agency Learning Agenda can support the Agency workforce as we further USAID’s policy priorities. Agency Learning and Evidence Month has been designed for all USAID staff, whether in Washington or overseas, to join interactive sessions on priority learning topics including Operational Effectiveness; Resilience to Shocks; Climate Change; Anti-Corruption; Migration and Forced Displacement; Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Accessibility; Affirmative Development; Locally Led Development; and Partnering for Sustainability. Several sessions are also open to the public. 3ie participated in two session.
3ie Development Evidence Portal: So what should we fund? Evidence of what works and how to find it
April 11, 8:00 - 9:00 am EDT
In this session, 3ie’s Birte Snilstveit, Mark Engelbert and Daniel Handel presented the Development Evidence Portal, the largest of its kind platform with over 10,000 impact evaluations and 300 systematic reviews of development interventions.
Speakers
- Birte Snilstveit, Director of Synthesis, 3ie
- Mark Engelbert, Development Evidence Portal Lead, 3ie
- Daniel Handel, Lead, External Engagement, 3ie
Evidence Architecture: How has two decades of evidence accumulation transformed development?
Agency Learning Agenda Session: Closing Plenary
Hosted by USAID Bureau for Policy, Planning and Learning
This high-level panel examined how key actors in the movement to develop a scientific evidence base for Development have established this learning over the last two decades and looks forward to how we can systematically summarize, gather, and showcase the evidence generated for practitioner use. Panellists have led this movement and transformed how Development establishes and accumulates learning as a community and have institutionalized key systems for sharing findings out with the broader community. As we close Learning and Evidence Month, we will use this panel as a jumping-off point for incorporating evidence into our work.
Speakers
- Arianna Legovini, Director, Development Impact Evaluation (DIME), the World Bank
- Marie Gaarder, Executive Director, International Initiative for Impact Evaluation (3ie)
- Tom Kelly, Deputy Vice President of the Department for Policy and Evaluation, Millenium Challenge Corporation
- Paulo Gomez, Management Information System / Data Steward / Digital Development Advisor, USAID/Colombia
- Andrew Greer, Foreign Service Officer, USAID
- Julie Chen, Office Director, Learning, Evaluation and Research, USAID
Moderated by Morgan Holmes, Agency Learning and Evidence Team Lead, Office of Learning, Evaluation and Research, USAID
Read summary of the event.