CEDIL Blog
Updates, learning and reflections about CEDIL-funded work and about development evaluation and impact more generally.
How can structural interventions enable adolescent contraceptive use in low- and middle-income countries?
Helen Burchett discusses recent CEDIL-supported research focused on adolescent contraceptive use in low- and middle-income countries. With her colleagues, she mapped the existing evidence and proposed three steps to designing effective structural adolescent contraceptive interventions.
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How to make impact evaluations work in humanitarian and conflict settings
Identifying whom to help and how to do so effectively is an important challenge for the humanitarian sector. Aysegül Kayaoglu, Ghassan Baliki & Tilman Brück share findings from a recent workshop examining ways to address this challenge so that humanitarian work can be as effective as possible.
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Evaluation and Measurement video blog
In this video blog, Orazio Attanasio of Yale University and Elisa Cavatorta of Kings College London discuss their work on approaches to measurement for evaluation.
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When ties that bind increase vulnerability to migration: insights from the south to west Asia migration corridor
Migration policies and practices are intertwined and many actors are involved. Zahid ul Arefin Choudhury discusses the role of family networks and other structures in migration of women from South Asia to the Middle East
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Using machine learning to understand who benefits the most from an intervention
Sudhanshu Handa and Zhiyuan Liu discuss how a machine learning technique can be applied to study the impact of unconditional cash transfers on different programme participants and contribute to the development of a middle range theory on graduation out of poverty.
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Innovations in measurement can help to understand individual behaviours and outcomes
To evaluate interventions effectively, it is important to understand the mechanisms that generate the intervention’s outcomes and, to achieve that, to look carefully at what one is measuring and what it tells about the determinants of individual behaviour and outcomes, write Orazio Attanasio and Elisa Cavatorta
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