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Spotlight
Global Evidence Commitment – First Annual Convening |
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A year after 3ie and our partners launched the Global Evidence Commitment, we regrouped under the same roof in October to discuss each of our journeys on this critical path so far. It was an opportunity to appraise each other and take stock of the promise and progress of the pledge. We saw ‘in action’ the strong value of in-person information sharing among similar-minded organizations and heard descriptions of promising reforms as well as challenges, including inter alia:
- The adoption of new requirements on cost evidence
- New interfaces and tools to access databases of existing evaluation evidence
- Significant new resources for cost evidence in some cases, but significant challenges to access resources for evidence generation in others
- Examples of assessments and independent evaluations of organizational measures to improve the use of evidence with helpful insights
- An agreement among the organizations that among the levers in the TRIPS framework, measures that address the incentives of individual staff to care for and use evidence are the most difficult to tackle
The opening remarks by USAID Chief Economist Dr Dean Karlan provided great insight into the Agency’s approach to institutionalizing evidence use. We heard about the touchstones for our keynote reformer’s efforts: - Maintain a clear North Star: recall the moral imperative that if this work is not done as cost competitively as possible, the impacts to improve people’s lives will be less than they could be
- Imbue staff with “cost-effectiveness as a way of thinking”
- Always challenge ourselves and others to consider the cost of not using evidence
- Appreciate the importance of developing networks of evidence champions
When we started the Global Evidence Commitment last year, we didn’t know how much traction it would get. We are extremely pleased to see the strong commitment, the sense of urgency among many partner organizations, and look forward to welcoming more organizations as we learn how to function well as a movement and network! Marie Gaarder
Executive Director, 3ie
Read about the GEC | Watch GEC partners talk about their use of TRIPS
The GEC signatories include the Inter-American Development Bank, International Initiative for Impact Evaluation (3ie), the Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC), the Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation (Norad), the UK’s Foreign Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO), Germany’s KfW Development Bank, and the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID). |
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Evidence Dialogues | Doing the right thing right: how to ensure development research complies with transparency, reproducibility, and ethical standards
Our upcoming Evidence Dialogues on the special issue of 3ie’s Journal of Development Effectiveness is part of our objective to ensure transparency and ethics in impact evaluations. The authors of the special issue will present their papers and discuss key challenges and takeaways for transparency and ethics in evidence generation. The speakers will also talk about the new measures taken by the Journal to ensure these aspects are prioritized in the research we publish.
14 November | 8.30 am EDT
Register here | Read more here
Read about the special issue in this blog
3ie’s Transparency, Reproducibility, and Ethical Evidence (TREE) initiative promotes generation of credible evidence that is aligned with ethical practices. As part of this effort, our TREE Review Framework—a public good designed to complement the Institutional Review Board (IRB) process—helps research teams evaluate and document the ethical considerations inherent in social science research. Read more about it here. |
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Featured
Evidence on reintegration programs for ex-detainees
Ex-detainees face challenges in securing stable jobs and economic security, especially as conflicts in African regions increase their numbers. Effective reintegration programs are essential, as seen in Côte d'Ivoire’s Civic Service of Action for Employment and Development initiative, which aimed to support ex-combatants and ex-detainees. A recent review by 3ie’s WACIE team sheds light on evidence gaps in these interventions and offers key recommendations for better policymaking.
Read the brief.
This rapid response brief 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). |
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Key insights on enhancing viability and impact of women’s collective enterprises
3ie’s Swashakt program, supported by Gates Foundation, has provided valuable insights into setting up and scaling women’s collective enterprises across different regions and industries. Under the Swashakt program, our projects focused on women’s collectives across India—some tested innovative enterprise models, others tested new interventions with existing enterprise models, while a few aimed to scale up successful models.
The innovative enterprise models included five pilot projects implemented in the states of Bihar, Gujarat, Jharkhand, and West Bengal and focused on retail and the production of farm-based inputs, farm-based value-added products, and non-farm products. It was an opportunity to better understand factors influencing the set-up of women’s collective enterprise support models across different geographic contexts and business areas. In collaboration with LEAD at Krea University, 3ie monitored the projects to assess their viability and gathered learnings on successful models for empowering women entrepreneurs in diverse contexts.
Read working paper | Read brief | Read about Swashakt |
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3ie in the News | Financial Times spotlights underfunding in key research areas  In a recent opinion piece titled ‘‘Known unknowns’, or how to plug the gaps in public research’, economic journalist Tim Harford emphasizes the need to address lack of funding in key research areas and to ensure greater support for publicly-available resources and repositories that offer evidence.
He shines a light on 3ie and our Development Evidence Portal and says: “The Portal is very much in the spirit of Archie Cochrane’s organised critical summary of all relevant trials — but it struggles for steady funding.” He quotes 3ie’s Executive Director Marie Gaarder to highlight that the entire portal can be run for a year at a cost of less than a typical impact evaluation. The piece stresses the advantages of evidence synthesis, especially because “By bringing together relevant research in the right way, systematic reviews can help to answer policymakers’ questions.”
Read the full piece here
Visit the Development Evidence Portal
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Past events
Finding the evidence you need to make the best decision possible: 3ie’s resources and research | 11 November 2024
3ie hosted a webinar as part of the Semana de la Evidencia (Evidence Week), co-organized by an alliance of researchers and practitioners in the field of evidence-informed policymaking in the Latin American region. We talked about the Development Evidence Portal (DEP) as a resource to identify rigorous evidence—impact evaluations, systematic reviews and evidence gap maps. We also presented recent evaluation and synthesis work around climate change and humanitarian cash transfers, and how these have informed decision-making.
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8th National Evaluation Capacities Conference (NEC 2024) | 14-18 October, Beijing
3ie participated in two sessions at the 8th National Evaluation Capacities Conference (NEC 2024) conference co-organized by UNDP Independent Evaluation Office (IEO) and the China International Development Cooperation Agency (CIDCA) in collaboration with the Global Evaluation Initiative (GEI). The conference titled ‘Responsive Evaluation: For Government, For Inclusion, For the Future’ underscored 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.
Strengthening NES through Accessible, Actionable, and Relevant Evidence | 15 October
Anca Dumitrescu, Lead Evaluation Specialist, 3ie; Thomas Kelly, Director of Evidence to Policy and Learning, 3ie; Candice Morkel, Director, Centre for Learning on Evaluation and Results – Anglophone Africa (CLEAR-AA); and Damit Serge Didier Amany, Manager of Impact Monitoring and Evaluation Unit, Banque Ouest Africaine de Développement.
Artificial Intelligence and the Opportunities it Brings to Evaluation | 16 October
3ie’s Director of Evidence to Policy and Learning, Thomas Kelly, and Data Scientist Devika Lakhote joined Patrizia Cocca from Global Evaluation Initiative, Anish Pradhan from UNDP, Marco Segone UNFPA’s Evaluation Director, and Lingrong Ying of Shanghai University of International Business and Economics for a panel discussion on AI in evaluation.
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Featured
Senior Research Fellow  3ie’s Senior Research Fellows Program includes experts from various sectors – including development, evaluation, policy as well as academia. This month, we feature Joshua R Polanin, who is a principal researcher in the Research & Evaluation program at American Institutes for Research (AIR). He has extensive experience in quantitative methodology and has published over 50 peer-reviewed journal articles across education, criminology, public health, and methodology, including more than 20 peer-reviewed, published meta-analyses. who has more than 15 years of experience in program evaluation and systematic reviews. Read moreSince 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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