Reaching SDG 3: Promoting immunizations can safeguard children from preventable diseases and death

Monica Jain
18 June 2025 blog  

While ensuring healthy lives for all ages is among the top Sustainable Development Goals,  progress towards achieving this objective has recently decelerated as far as children are concerned. There has been an alarming, sustained decline in child vaccinations due to the COVID-19 pandemic and other ongoing crises, putting millions of children at risk from preventable diseases and death.

Mutual health insurance and the digitization of healthcare services in developing countries: Experience of the ISPV- Africa project in Togo

Bio Bertrand Mama, Anca Dumitrescu, Charlotte Lane, Binta Ndiaye
21 August 2024 blog  
Universal health coverage remains a global concern, particularly in developing countries where health systems have many weaknesses.

Teaching critical thinking about health: impacts and implications

Andy Oxman, Faith Chesire, Margaret Kaseje, Ronald Ssenyonga
20 March 2024 blog  
Claims about what might improve or harm our health are everywhere. Some of these claims are reliable, but many are not. People often don’t know how to tell the difference. Making decisions based on unreliable claims wastes resources and can result in unnecessary suffering. This problem was exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic, which was accompanied by an “infodemic”— an overload of information, including false or misleading information.

Insights from the Development Evidence Portal – the Middle East and North Africa

Cem Yavuz, Hesham Shafick
04 March 2024 blog  
Continuing our 'state of the evidence' series exploring insights from the DEP – this blog explores and shares key insights from the evidence on the Middle East and North Africa region.

Déterminer ce qui fonctionne pour améliorer la nutrition maternelle : début d'une nouvelle évaluation au Bénin

Charlotte Lane, Anca Dumitrescu, Dislène Senan Sossou
04 January 2024 blog  
3ie, en partenariat avec le gouvernement du Bénin, lance l’évaluation d'impact d'une initiative révolutionnaire : un programme de nutrition pratique et évolutif pour améliorer les résultats en matière de santé maternelle et infantile.

Determining what works to improve maternal nutrition: Beginning a new evaluation in Benin

Charlotte Lane, Anca Dumitrescu, Dislène Senan Sossou
04 January 2024 blog  
3ie, in partnership with the Government of Benin, is launching an impact evaluation of a groundbreaking initiative: a practical, scalable nutrition program to improve maternal and infant health outcomes.

Evidence base of sexual and reproductive health and rights interventions growing, but gaps remain

Tomasz Kozakiewicz, Marcellina Schmidt, Birte Snilstveit, Lina Khan, Shannon Shisler, Megha Bhattacharyya
28 September 2023 blog  
Ahead of World Contraception Day (26 September) and International Safe Abortion Day (28 September), UN experts called for states, especially those in emergency, humanitarian and crisis situations, to promote, protect and respect sexual and reproductive health and all related rights. To do this, the experts underscored the need to establish inclusive policies, evidence-informed services, and leadership rooted in international human rights conventions. In our latest evidence gap map (EGM) on sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR)

Mapping evidence and gaps in interventions reducing anaemia in low- and middle-income countries

Ashiqun Nabi, Charlotte Lane, Daniel Lopez de Romaña, Alison Mildon
26 July 2023 blog  
In 2019, 269 million children under five, 32 million pregnant women, and over half a billion women of reproductive age were reported to be affected by anaemia. The condition causes adverse health outcomes, delayed cognitive and physical development in children, and reduced productivity which may lead to economic losses

Mapping the evidence on sexual and reproductive health and rights in L&MICs

Lina Khan, Shannon Shisler, Tomasz Kozakiewicz
18 July 2023 blog  
Sexual and reproductive rights are human rights, and the right to make sexual and reproductive decisions affects sexual and reproductive health. To understand the extent of the evidence on sexual and reproductive health and rights, and inform decision-making, 3ie is developing an evidence gap map (EGM).

Results from an evaluation of the COVAX Facility and AMC to inform pandemic preparedness and response

Monica Jain, Kirthi Rao, Rohan Shah
07 July 2023 blog  
The COVAX Facility aimed to accelerate the development, production and distribution of COVID-19 vaccines worldwide. To ensure equitable access for 92 low-income (LICs) and lower-middle-income countries (LMICs) within the COVAX Facility, Gavi created a separate funding mechanism — the Advance Market Commitment (AMC). By the end of 2021, the COVAX Facility and AMC had provided close to 1 billion doses to 144 countries. While this vaccine supply was broadly equitable (prioritizing LICs and LMICs), vaccine coverage rates across countries were inequitable.