For 3ie, building the capacity to conduct a rigorous and influential impact evaluation is crucial for achieving the goal of better development outcomes and more effective policies.
Here you will find a collection of useful reference materials, tool-kits, downloadable documents and other resources related to methodology and best practice in impact evaluation.
Books, Manual and Reports
- Carolyn Heinrich, Alessandro Maffioli, Gonzalo Vázquez (2010), 'A Primer for Applying Propensity Score Matching', Inter-American Development Bank
Rebekka E. Grun (2006), ' Monitoring and Evaluating Projects: A step-by-step Primer on Monitoring, Benchmarking, and Impact Evaluation', Health, Nutrition and Population Discussion Paper, World Bank, USA
GDN British Library for Development Studies research papers delivery service: Over 1000 journals, 4000 serials and 80,000 monographs on economic and social change in developing countries available for research institutes in the South.
Christopher Barrett and Michael Carter (2010) 'The Power and Pitfalls of Experiments in Development Economics: Some Non-random Reflections', Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, Volume 32, Number 4, p 515-548
Climate change evaluation: Rob D. van den Berg (2010) 'supporting evaluation capacity on environment and development', forthcoming IDEAS publication "Influencing Change: Evaluation and Capacity Development"
GEF Evaluation of climate change and development platform - www.climate-eval.org/
Tool-kits and presentations
- World Bank Impact Evaluation Toolkit
Africa Impact Evaluation Network (African researchers and impact evaluation projects datasets)
Evaluation portal (general evaluation links)
PREM (World Bank) Impact Site (includes links to impact evaluation database and "Doing impact evaluation" Working Paper series)