CEDIL Syntheses Working Papers

CEDIL Syntheses Working Papers

The CEDIL Syntheses Working Paper series publishes innovative research syntheses of the impact of interventions in low- and middle-income countries in the form of evidence and gap maps, systematic reviews, meta-analyses and other synthesis products.

Latest Publication 

Making and justifying evidence claims: evidence synthesis of impact evaluations and systematic reviews in international development

Evidence from research leads to claims about the effects of intervening in people’s lives to improve specific outcomes. However, this raises the question of how such evidence claims are framed, justified and communicated. This review aims to address this important question by reviewing research findings from impact evaluations and systematic reviews to understand the nature and the scope of evidence claims in the global South.
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Gender and social outcomes of WASH interventions: synthesis of research evidence

This systematic evidence synthesis aimed to collate evidence on the impact of WASH interventions on GESI outcomes in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). It also aimed to synthesise evidence on violence-related outcomes, and to advance understanding of barriers to, and facilitators of, change in violence-related outcomes in the context of WASH interventions.
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The role of implementation in generalisability: A synthesis of evidence on targeted educational instruction and a new randomised trial

Targeted instruction is one of the most effective educational interventions in low- and middle-income countries, yet the reported impacts of this approach vary, from 0.07 to 0.78 standard deviations (SDs) across contexts. This paper studies this variation and the contextual factors associated with it by combining an evidence aggregation covering 10 study arms with a new randomised trial.
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