Spotlight
Research opportunities at the FCDO Research Commissioning Centre

On behalf of UK’s Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO), we are pleased to announce two funding opportunities from the Research Commissioning Centre (RCC) managed by 3ie and the University of Birmingham:

  1. Portfolio review of FCDO’s Technology and Innovation Unit’s investments: We are inviting proposals to conduct a review of the FCDO’s Technology and Innovation Unit’s portfolio and its current use of behavioral science. The aim is to explore the current use of behavioral science designs, examine their potential applications and barriers, and understand how to embed these approaches further across the FCDO’s portfolio. Applicants should review the full call for proposals and complete the application form and budget template provided here.  Please submit the completed documents by email to rcc@3ieimpact.org by 2 October 2024.
  2. Studying the effects of climate change and variability on water resources in Uruguay: We are inviting proposals to study the effects of climate change and variability on water resources in Uruguay. The aim is to assess the impacts of climate change and climate variability, as well as socio-economic activities on water resources in Uruguay and to recommend sustainable strategies for water resource management and adaptation. Applicants should review the full call for proposals and complete the application form and budget template provided here. Please submit the completed documents by email to rcc@3ieimpact.org by 10 October 2024.

For more information on the RCC, please visit the website or sign up to receive updates here. 

Special issue  
3ie’s Journal of Development Effectiveness 

JDEFFAs a global leader in evidence production, we also promote the uptake of best practices and capacity development amongst researchers, especially in low- and middle-income countries, to ensure that the evidence produced is credible and aligned to ethical practices. Through our initiative on Transparency, Reproducibility, and Ethical Evidence (TREE), we have been working toward stronger integration of ethical principles into practice. As part of this, we have brought out a special issue of the Journal of Development Effectiveness that highlights this topic. Articles in this issue are dedicated to issues around transparency and ethics in the context of impact evaluations. Here is a list of articles you can find in this issue:

Read the complete issue here.
To submit an article to the journal, please read the guidance here.

 

Featured
Reflections from the evaluation of the ISPV- Africa project in Togo



Access to healthcare is a national priority in Togo. Yet, in 2016, only 7.6% of the Togolese population was covered by a social protection system and only 44.7% attended health facilities. Moreover, patients generally got disillusioned in health centers with very little knowledge of the health system, making it difficult to navigate and receive proper care. To address these health and social protection shortcomings in Togo, the ‘Innovation pour la Santé des Personnes en Situation de Vulnérabilités en Afrique’ (ISPV-Africa) project was launched to improve access to preventive and curative health services for low-income populations in the Zio and Grand Lomé districts. The project combines three elements: (i) provision of medical facilitator services at home and in health centers, (ii) use of a mobile health application ‘DokitaEyes’ and (iii) provision of health coverage in rural and urban areas.

Our pilot study assessed the feasibility of a rigorous impact evaluation on a larger scale of the project and to understand the determinants of demand for health insurance within the community. In our latest blog, the authors share the lessons learned from the pilot phase. 

This project is part of 3ie’s West Africa Capacity-building and Impact Evaluation (WACIE) program that supports and promotes the culture of evidence-informed decision-making among high-level policymakers across eight countries of the West African Economic and Monetary Union (WAEMU).  Read blog

 

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World Humanitarian Day Wrap-up 



Call for studies | Updating the evidence base on humanitarian food security interventions

3ie, in partnership with the Humanitarian Assistance Evidence Cycle Activity (HAEC) is updating a 2022 evidence gap map (EGM) on food security interventions in humanitarian settings. Our EGM will include studies published in the last two years – including six HAEC-funded impact evaluations of emergency food security programs implemented with the support of the USAID Bureau for Humanitarian Assistance.

3ie and HAEC are seeking input from policymakers, researchers, and practitioners to ensure we capture the most recent and relevant evidence. We are interested in relevant impact evaluations or systemic reviews in emergency and humanitarian contexts — particularly unpublished, forthcoming, or grey literature studies. If you have relevant studies to recommend, please submit your suggestions by filling out this Google form  by 27 September.

Read blog | Explore the 2022 EGM | Read the 2022 EGM report

Video resources | Debunking myths about impact evaluations in humanitarian contexts

What impact evaluation methods tell us that other evaluation methods cannot in humanitarian context? 3ie and Humanitarian Assistance Evidence Cycle (HAEC) worked on a three-part video series to help explain the importance of impact evaluations and debunk myths about their suitability and use in humanitarian contexts.

  1. Debunking Myths about Impact Evaluations in Humanitarian Contexts          
  2. How Can We Use Findings from an Impact Evaluation to Inform Our Decision Making?
  3. Are Impact Evaluations in Humanitarian Settings Necessarily Unethical?
Find 200+ studies on humanitarian and peacebuilding interventions in 3ie’s Development Evidence Portal

Interested in learning more about the evidence of interventions in humanitarian settings? Check out our Development Evidence Portal (DEP), a 3ie public good and one of the largest repositories of high-quality studies that can be filtered by interventions, outcomes, methods, and in many other ways. You can find more than 200 studies—including 150+ impact evaluations, 45+ systematic reviews and three evidence gap maps related to the humanitarian and peacebuilding sector!
Find evidence

 

Events

Upcoming events

15th European Evaluation Biennial Conference | 23-27 September 2024 | Online

The European Evaluation Society’s Better Together Conference will be held in Rimini, Italy. The conference will explore how collaboration can be more effective, transformative evaluation, and social change. This event offers an opportunity to leverage the diverse experience of the EES community to reframe evaluation and promote positive impact.

Standing on the shoulders of giants: On the collaborative and coordinated use of existing evidence from evaluations | 25 September
Time: 3:30 – 5:00 PM CET
Presentations

  • Half-time for SDG Evidence Generation: Insights from the Development Evidence Portal, Kathrin Wolf, German Institute for Development Evaluation (DEval) and; Tomasz Kozakiewicz, International Initiative for Impact Evaluation (3ie)
  • WACIE Program – Evidence to Policy Improvement, Anca Dumitrescu, 3ie
  • Mapping evidence on sexual and reproductive health and rights development interventions for evaluation and practice, Mira Fey, DEval and; Tomasz Kozakiewicz, 3ie

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Food and agriculture: Improving food and agricultural systems through evaluation | 26 September

A Living Map of the Evidence on Food Systems and Nutrition: Findings and Lessons for Living Synthesis, Ingunn Gilje Storhaug and; Mark Engelbert, 3ie
Time: 5:15 - 6:45 PM CET
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Changing the rules of the game: The praxis of generating and using evidence for policy and institutional reform | 27 September

Changing the Rules of the Game: The Praxis of Generating and Using Evidence for Policy and Institutional Reform, Devika Rhishikesh Lakhote, Carolyn Huang, Jane Hammaker, 3ie and; Julian Glucroft, Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC)
Time: 11:30 AM – 1:00PM CET
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8th National Evaluation Capacities Conference (NEC 2024) | 14-18 October
 
The UNDP Independent Evaluation Office (IEO) is organizing the 8th National Evaluation Capacities Conference (NEC 2024) in Yanqing, Beijing from 14 to 18 October 2024. This conference is co-hosted by the China International Development Cooperation Agency (CIDCA), and in collaboration with the Global Evaluation Initiative (GEI). 
 
The conference theme “Responsive Evaluation: For Government, For Inclusion, For the Future,” underscores the importance of sharing progress and lessons learned in strengthening national evaluation systems, their role in achieving the SDGs and other development goals, and how new technologies and approaches in evaluation can facilitate the achievement of the SDGs. 
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Past events

AfDB Evaluation Week, 17-19 September 2024
The 2024 AfDB Development Evaluation Week was held in hybrid mode at AfDB Headquarters in Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire and online. The theme of the 6th edition of Evaluation Week was "Navigating rough seas towards a brighter horizon for Africa’. 3ie’s Anca Dumitrescu and Deo Gracias led a pre-conference online workshop on ‘Cutting-edge approaches to communicating evaluative insights’ on 17 September.
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Swashakt – Learning and insights on empowering women’s collectives | 12 September 

3ie Swashakt event
We organized a learning workshop for 3ie’s Swashakt program in Delhi. The program, supported by the Gates Foundation, was launched in 2020 to enhance women's economic and social well-being by strengthening women-led collective enterprises in India. During the sessions, key stakeholders underscored findings, lessons learned, and successful strategies from nine projects in nine Indian states. We also discussed future opportunities for investment and gender-transformative policies to further empower women.

Neelakshi Mann, Director-Asia Programs, 3ie, outlined the objective of the program to identify what works to enhance the viability and scalability of women’s collective enterprises in farm and non-farm sectors. In her opening remarks, Marie Gaarder, Executive Director, 3ie spoke about the need for governments and multilateral organizations to understand the impact of their programs, especially to make progress on the sustainable development goals. Charanjit Singh, Additional Secretary, Ministry of Rural Development, Government of India, made the keynote speech and talked about why the ministry’s partnership with 3ie has been critical. He underscored the need for evidence generation and interpretation to understand the implementation and impact of programs. Anjani Kumar Singh from the Gates Foundation explained how learning from different Swashakt projects, in particular, the evidence on various prototypes and models in India, will help inform investments and ensure better program effectiveness.

Watch this space for the upcoming publications, including the pilot synthesis report, process evaluations, and endline briefs.
Read more about Swashakt 

Asian Evaluation Week | 2-5 September | Shanghai

Marie Gaarder
The Independent Evaluation Group at Asian Development Bank (ADB) and the Asia Pacific Finance and Development Institute organized the Asian Evaluation in Shanghai, China, on the theme ‘Innovations for Influential Evaluation.’ 3ie’s Executive Director Marie Gaarder was part of two panels, where she joined experts from the Independent Evaluation Department at ADB, the Economic Research and Development Impact Department, Kartu Prakerja, the Independent Evaluation Group of the World Bank, and the Independent Evaluation Unit of the Green Climate Fund. Her panel discussions focused on ‘Leveraging impact evaluations for development impact’ and ‘Evaluation Headlines Live: Evolving Role of Evaluation in Preparing for an Uncertain Future’.
Read more and watch the recordings
 

 

 

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Featured
Senior Research Fellow

John Eyer, 3ie senior Fellow3ie’s Senior Research Fellows Program includes experts from various sectors – including development, evaluation, policy as well as academia. This month, we feature John Eyers who has 40 years of expertise in information access and retrieval. His work focuses on constructing complex database search strategies for systematic reviews, evidence gap maps and rapid evidence appraisals, and reviewing search methods for the Campbell Collaboration. Read more

Since 2020, 3ie's Fellowship Program has contributed to achieving our mission by tapping into diverse expertise and experience across the world.
 
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