Clicking on an intervention or outcome will open up. List of published papers in the 3ie impact evaluation repository focused on png and the pacific countries year method title authors sector subsector focus fiji, samoa, solomon islands, tonga, other regional 2012 rct the impact of financial literacy training for migrants john gibson, david mckenzie, bilal zia. The number of impact evaluations focused on png and pacific island countries is 18, representing a less than a half of a percentage point share of the database. International initiative for impact evaluation 3ie. Experiences and lessons from the asia foundation nina merchantvega, assistant director, economic development. Dealing with data constraints 52 key message 53 9 frontend planning is important 53 9. The purpose of the registry is to enhance the transparency and quality of evaluation research as well as to provide a repository of impact. A complete listing of all of 3ie s donors can be found on the 3ie website. A map of evidence maps relating to sustainable development. Ridie is a registry of impact evaluations related to development in low and middle income countries. The first focuses on content and the second on methods. The international initiative for impact evaluation 3ie seeks to improve the lives of poor.
We first define successful evaluations along three dimensions. International initiative for impact evaluation 3ie how to use. The centre of excellence for development impact and learning, with leading inputs from 3ie, catalogued evidence maps within a framework of intervention sectors adapted from the world bank categorisation and outcomes classified. Guidance on slection, planning and management 8 on the outcome for the beneficiary population. The conference will be held inside the plaza hotel in seoul, the republic of korea, from august 67, 2019. International initiative for impact evaluation 3ie, new delhi. Kdi school is holding a periodical conference, the 2nd kdi school 3ie adb conference on impact evaluation in development research, in association with 3ie international initiative for impact evaluation and adb the asian development bank. Dyer, p, kluve, j, bausch, j, gardiner, d and mizrokhi, e, 2017. The purpose of this discussion paper is to inform ausaids and other 3ie members engagement with 3ie the international initiative for impact evaluation. Goldilocks resource resources and tools for impact. Article on attrition analysis of surveys in developing countries attrition in longitudinal household survey data. Interventions are listed on the y axis and outcomes on the x axis. Replication studies of development impact evaluations. The rest of this background note focuses on lessons from odi, alnap, 3ie and other research, which address, in broad terms, the first three of these challenges.
To what extent can evidence from evaluations really affect the policymaking process. But this definition is not shared by many working on impact evaluation, for example in the world bank, or, indeed, 3ie. Searching this database will bring up published impact evaluations from our impact evaluation repository as well as completed 3ie funded impact evaluations. Six years ago, the international initiative for impact evaluation 3ie launched a programme to promote and fund replication studies of impact evaluations in international development. In this working paper of the international initiative for impact evaluation 3ie, white and philips examine whether consensus can be created about impact evaluation approaches suitable for small n analysis.
Until filled the international initiative for impact evaluation 3ie is currently accepting application from individuals for the post of internship undertaking a research on various thematic programs in low and middle income countries. We are the global leader in funding and producing highquality evidence of what works, how, why and at what cost. Attribution the extent to which the observed change in outcome is the result of the intervention, having allowed for all other factors which may also affect the outcomes of interest. A new look at impact evaluation capacity in subsaharan. It is widely accepted that a theory based approach to impact evaluation, one that maps out the causal chain. Purpose of impact evaluation impact evaluation serves both objectives of evaluation. The 3ie search covered the years 1990 through 2015, and includes journal articles, book chapters, working papers, and reports that meet 3ie s screening standards. Impact is defined as the difference in the indicator of interest y with the intervention y 1 and without the intervention y 0, known as the counterfactual. Pdf the international initiative for impact evaluation. Beginning with the need for a theorydriven evaluation, and ending with a set of concrete tools to use in running an evaluation, they cover a range of practical materials useful for organizations that are considering a rigorous impact evaluation. Key lessons for impact evaluations that work just as there have been repeated calls for aid evalua tion to move beyond outputs to measure downstream. Malawi social cash transfer programme endline impact. Ridie international initiative for impact evaluation 3ie. Evaluating impact evaluation in png and the pacific.
Government through kfw, irish aid, fao, the international initiative for impact evaluation 3ie and unicef malawi for their financial contributions and stakeholder support for the study. Defining impact and impact evaluation there are two main ways in which impact and its evaluation has been defined. Impact evaluation of wfps programs targeting moderate. About 3ie the international initiative for impact evaluation 3ie was set up in 2008 to meet growing demand for more and better evidence of what development interventions in low and middleincome countries work and why. Global developments evaluation gap working group in 2004, international initiative on impact evaluation 3ie in 2008, masters of science in impact evaluation for international development at the university of east anglia, and the centre for development impact at the institute of development studies, among others. International initiative on impact evaluation, 3ie email.
The international initiative for impact evaluation 3ie is an international. Commissioned by the office of development effectiveness, ausai. In parallel to these trends, behavioral economics has. Howard white of 3ie, an institution specialising in ie, defines it explicitly within an experimental and counterfactual logic. International initiative for impact evaluation 3ie to develop an innovative registry for impact evaluations of programs in low and middle income countries. We designed the programme with the objective of improving the quality of. Institutional background 3ie created to enhance development effectiveness through evidencebased policymaking 3ie seeks to improve the lives of poor people in low and middleincome countries by providing, and summarizing, evidence of what works, when, why and for how much.
The 3ie board of commissioners is commissioning a process evaluation of. Goldilocks assembled this set of resources for use in designing and running an impact evaluation. Design document for 3ie registry for international. List of published papers in the 3ie impact evaluation. An impact evaluation provides information about the impacts produced by an intervention positive and negative, intended and unintended, direct and indirect.
The international initiative for impact evaluation process. This means that an impact evaluation must establish what has been the cause of observed changes in this case impacts referred to as causal attribution also referred to as causal inference. Some tests for three developing country samplesan example on the attrition analysis of a longterm panel survey an analysis of sample attrition in panel data. Impact of voice reminders to reinforce harvest aggregation services training for farmers in mali report international initiative for impact evaluation 3ie download pdf 2.
International initiative for impact evaluation 3ie 202203, 2nd floor, rectangle one. The international initiative for impact evaluation 3ie is a new organisation devoted to enhancing development effectiveness through supporting the production and use of evidence from rigorous. The international initiative for impact evaluation 3ie is a new organization devoted to enhancing development effectiveness through supporting the production and use of evidence from rigorous impact studies. Kdi school3ieadb conference on impact evaluation in. Brown b ainternational initiative for impact evaluation 3ie, washington, dc, usa. We would also like to acknowledge chantal elmont of ayala consulting, who, over the last three. The international initiative for impact evaluation 3ie is an international grantmaking ngo promoting evidenceinformed development policies and programmes. Pdf the international initiative for impact evaluation 3ie. The international initiative for impact evaluation 3ie. However, care must be taken about generalizing from a specific context. Impact evaluation is the main means for empirically testing what actually happens when interventions are implemented. Since then, we have pioneered further advancements, including developing our interactive online map platform and innovating evidence mapping to broaden its use in development decisionmaking. The impact of youth skills training on the financial. Working paper 32 integrating impact evaluation and.
Addressing attributions of cause and effect in small. Impact evaluations establish the causal effect of a. A recent update to 3ie s impact evaluation repository shows that there are 4,260 records of published development related impact evaluations in the world as of september 2015. The international initiative for impact evaluation 3ie defines rigorous impact evaluations as. The new trends in 20102015 shayda mae sabet a and annette n. Quantitative and qualitative methods in impact evaluation. Practical challenges of rigorous impact evaluation in international governance ngos. Impact evaluation assesses the changes that can be attributed to a particular intervention, such. An impact evaluation analyses the positive or negative, intended or unintended impact of a project, programme, or policy on the target population, and quantifies how large that impact is. What are the purposes and potential roles of impact evaluations in the.
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