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Impact Evaluations and Development: NONIE Guidance on Impact Evaluation
This document discusses questions of what impact evaluation is about, when it is appropriate, and how to do it. The Network of Networks for Impact Evaluation (NONIE) was established in 2006 to foster more and better…
A Multicomponent Irrigation Program in Peru: Evaluating the Impact on Farm Households
This impact evaluation of a World Bank-supported irrigation program in Peru finds that the program led to agricultural improvements and economic welfare gains for farmers in the rural coastal area of that country. Two…
Improving Coverage and Utilization of Maternal and Child Health Services in Lao PDR: Impact Evaluation of the Community Nutrition Project
The World Bank supported the Community Nutrition Project (CNP) in Lao PDR from 2009 to 2013 to respond to the global food crisis of 2007-08. The project was administered through a conditional cash transfer (CCT) with a…
What Can We Learn from Nutrition Impact Evaluations? Lessons from a Review of Interventions to Reduce Child Malnutrition in Developing Countries
High levels of child malnutrition in developing countries contribute to mortality and have long-term consequences for children's cognitive development and earnings in adulthood. Recent impact evaluations show that many…
IFC in Ukraine: 1993 – 2006: An Independent Country Impact Review
This country review, the first one disclosed by the Independent Evaluation Group of IFC (IEG) covers IFCâs assistance to Ukraine from fiscal year (FY)1993, when Ukraine became a member of IFC, through FY2006. The…
Evidence and Lessons Learned from Impact Evaluations on Social Safety Nets
This report finds that the evidence on the impacts of social safety nets accumulated through impact evaluations over the last decade provides lessons for developing effective programs in the future. The World Bank has…
Maintaining Momentum Towards the MDGs: An Impact Evaluation of Interventions to Improve Maternal and Child Health and Nutrition Outcomes in Bangladesh
This study is the second in a series of three impact studies being conducted by OED under a DFID-OED partnership agreement. In these studies OED is exploring different ways of carrying out ex post impact analysis in…
Do Conditional Cash Transfers Lead to Medium-Term Impacts? Evidence from a Female School Stipend Program in Pakistan
In an effort to fill the gap in evidence on the medium- and long-term effects of conditional cash transfer (CCTs), this report evaluates one such program at public girlsâ schools in Pakistan, the Punjab Female School…
Higher Impact Adjustment Lending (HIAL) in Sub-Saharan Africa
This study reviews the HIAL initiative introduced in the Africa Region in 1995. HIAL is aimed at enhancing adjustment lending (AL) through improved country selection and better program design. This study evaluates the…
Social Safety Nets and Gender: Learning from Impact Evaluations and World Bank Projects
Gender equality is widely accepted as an essential component of effective development, and in the past two decades it has progressively taken center stage in the international development community. As the third…