CEDIL Research Project Papers

This paper reports on a study of the medium-term impacts of the Skills for Effective Entrepreneurship Development (SEED) program, an innovative in-residence 3-week mini-MBA program for high school students modeled after western business school curricula and adapted to the Ugandan context.

This paper reports on a study of the long-term impacts of a school-based upper-secondary intervention, the Educate! Experience, designed to enhance adolescents' leadership and social entrepreneurship skills in Uganda.

This study proposes a large-scale, standardised, hands-off approach to assessing the performance of observational methods.

The Gender-Sensitive Risks and Options Assessment for Decision Making (ROAD) to Support WiF-2 (ROAD migration project) evaluated the ILO-DFID Partnership Programme on Fair Recruitment and Decent Work for Women Migrant Workers in South Asia and the Middle East (Work in Freedom, Phase 2 project [WiF-2]), which operated from 2018 to 2023.

The SEEDS project evaluates the impact of a complex large-scale multi-arm agricultural intervention on productivity, food security, and resilience in the context of an on-going humanitarian crisis in Syria.

This report focuses on evaluating the impacts of investments that the Strengthening Host and Refugee Populations in Ethiopia (SHARPE) programme has made in the financial market system, which have focused on developing markets for digital financial services in refugee hosting areas.

This paper describes a novel approach to evaluating development interventions - the POInT approach, which uses Bayesian causal modelling to integrate process and outcome data to generate insights about all aspects of the theory of change, including outcomes, mechanisms, mediators and moderators. The approach is used in evaluating complex development interventions.

This paper describes the use of secondary evaluation data from four government unconditional cash transfer programmes (UCTs) to identify households that are able to use the income shock to significantly improve their living standards and those that aren’t.

Most family planning interventions involving men and/or boys are effective at increasing contraceptive use. Effective types of interventions include community‐based educational programmes targeting males as well as females of all ages, and programmes delivered by professionals, trained facilitators or peers.