Impact Evaluation in Practice is an essential resource for evaluators, social programs, ministries, and others committed to making decisions using good evidence. This work is increasingly important as ...

The timing of the release raises questions about whether HHS was trying to bury the findings in the report, which shows, among other outcomes, that by third grade, the $8 billion Head Start ...

The World Bank’s Strategic Impact Evaluation Fund (SIEF) supports scientifically rigorous research that measures the impact of programs and policies to improve education, health, access to quality ...

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 ...

Understanding the role of prenatal care in maternal and infant well-being will require developing more meaningful quality metrics, leveraging new data sources, and finding new and creative ways to ...

Self-evaluation examples for customer services . The best customer services professionals are empathetic, efficient, resourceful, and focused on customer care. These self-evaluation examples highlight ...

For example, in March 2024, I attended a meeting of VIDE, the Dutch version of UKES, where Jelmer Kamstra acknowledged that within the Dutch Evaluation Office (IOB) there is still tension between ...

They might meet just three times—to review the evaluation’s design, interim results, and conclusions—but their advice can be critical to ensuring a useful evaluation. 5. Myopia. Those new to impact ...

Finally, impact evaluations can be cost effective. They can leverage existing data collections (for example, impact evaluations in Bangladesh make use of listing data from the Cox’s Bazar panel survey ...