CEDIL Blog
Updates, learning and reflections about CEDIL-funded work and about development evaluation and impact more generally.
Increasing financial access through mobile money
Alan de Brauw discusses the findings of experiments to catalyse the enrolment and use of mobile money as a way to increase financial access in areas of Ethiopia with large refugee populations.
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Formalising theories of change as Bayesian causal models and eliciting expert priors over model parameters
Matt Juden shares learning from working with evaluation teams to apply new approaches to eliciting prior beliefs over relationships in a causal model.
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Turning a theory of change into a Bayesian model : an example from an agricultural intervention
Calum Davey and Matt Juden discuss how an experimental Bayesian method can be used in re-analysis of a nutrition-sensitive agriculture intervention.
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Teaching children in the language they understand best improves their reading skills
When schools teach pupils in their mother tongues, it helps their reading in their own languages and may also improve their reading in other languages. A CEDIL-funded systematic review explored the impact of language of instruction policies on literacy outcomes.
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From helping to collective organizing: Insights from women migrant domestic workers in Lebanon
May Adra and Sawsan Abdulrahim share insights from a participatory action research study with women migrant domestic workers in Lebanon
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Save the date! CEDIL conference 2023
What have we learned about applying innovative methods to examine complex, development-related questions? Join us for the final CEDIL conference between 21 and 24 February 2023 to unpack this question and reflect with researchers, practitioners, and decision-makers.
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