Organisation
International Initiative for Impact Evaluation (3ie)
Policy impact evaluation
3ie supports the production of new evidence by financing new policy relevant impact evaluations, and supporting the synthesis of existing evidence on particular topics. It also provide technical support to agencies wanting to carry out their own impact evaluations. We engage with policy makers to make them aware of the importance of impact evaluation, encouraging them to commission and learn from impact studies. 3ie evolved fromthe Evaluation Gap Working Group, initiated by the Center for Global Development (CGD).
It also helps efforts to build capacity in low and middle income countries to carry out impact evaluations, especially by encouraging international collaborative research programmes. 3ie produces a number of resources, such as a dynamic website and various publications, to promote the production and use of quality impact evaluations.
The strategic components of the programme are:
It also helps efforts to build capacity in low and middle income countries to carry out impact evaluations, especially by encouraging international collaborative research programmes. 3ie produces a number of resources, such as a dynamic website and various publications, to promote the production and use of quality impact evaluations.
The strategic components of the programme are:
- generating new evidence of what works
- synthesising and disseminating this evidence
- building a culture of evidence based policy-making
- developing capacity to produce and use impact evaluations
- developing 3ie’s institutional capacity, governance and management systems
Published Documents
- What difference does a policy brief make?
- P. Beynon; C. Chapoy; M. Gaarder; E. Masset / International Initiative for Impact Evaluation, 2012
- 3ie and the Institute of Development Studies (IDS), in collaboration with Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation (Norad), explored the effectiveness of a policy brief for influencing readers’ beliefs and prompting them to ...
- Safe drinking water: who is willing to pay the price?
- C. Chapoy (ed); C. Null / International Initiative for Impact Evaluation, 2012
- This briefing, the second issue of the Evidence Matters series, distills policy relevant evidence from a recent 3ie systematic review ‘Willingness to pay for cleaner water in less developed countries". The review summarises rese...
- Institutionalisation Of Government Evaluation: Balancing Trade-Offs
- M. Gaarder / International Initiative for Impact Evaluation, 2010
- Carefully designed and implemented evaluations can improve people’s welfare, and enhance development effectiveness. The paper investigates institutions in Mexico, Chile, and Colombia, and shows that for the successful inception ...
- Sound expectations: from impact evaluations to policy change
- V. Weyrauch / International Initiative for Impact Evaluation, 2011
- Outlines a conceptual framework that can be used to identify factors that help or hinder rigorous impact evaluations from influencing policy. Authors Vanesa Weyrauch and Gala Díaz Langou from CIPPEC develop a framework that is ...
- Evidence Matters: Evaluating the impact of agricultural interventions on malnutrition in children
- International Initiative for Impact Evaluation, 2011
- Six million children die of hunger every year. Over 40 per cent of children under five in countries such as Bangladesh, Ethiopia, India, Nepal and Niger are stunted. Children that do survive are more likely to have heart disease, diab...
- Mind the gap: from evidence to policy impact - conference proceedings
- International Initiative for Impact Evaluation, 2011
- The 3ie conference, Mind the Gap: From Evidence to Policy Impact, brought to centre stage the need to address this “tension between learning and doing” as Ruth Levine (Hewlett Foundation) called it in the conference openin...
