Over the past year, development impact bonds, or DIBs—international development’s newest hot trend—have generated a tremendous amount of buzz from champions and detractors alike, along with some ...
Staying abreast of the social sector’s expansive and evolving lexicon is challenging. Tracking evaluation terminology can be especially taxing. Standing at the intersection of academia and strategic ...
On December 2, 2024, David Miliband, President and CEO of the International Rescue Committee (IRC), delivered a keynote at the UNICEF and WFP Global Impact Evaluation Forum. He highlighted the IRC’s ...
The Competitiveness Policy Evaluation Lab (or ComPEL) is an umbrella program under the Finance, Competitiveness and Innovation Global Practice of the World Bank Group (WBG). It supports the use of ...
A couple of seminal studies published almost 20 years ago found that conservationists needed to start examining whether their actions were actually causing the desired effects. Assessing conservation ...
Assuming that a criminal justice program is evaluable and animpact evaluation is feasible, an appropriate research design must be developed. The basic idea of an impact evaluation is simple. Program ...