SIEF has funded 61 impact evaluations of programs in four areas critical to human development: early childhood nutrition and development, education, health, and water and sanitation. Detailed information about each evaluation is found through the links below.

• Early Childhood Development
• Education
• Health
• Water and Sanitation

Between 2007 and 2012, with funding primarily from the Government of Spain, SIEF funded a set of impact evaluations that reviewed a range of projects across a variety of human development areas. Further information about these evaluations and the results is available through the links below. 

• Active Labor Markets and Youth Employment
• Conditional Cash Transfers
• Early Childhood Development
• Education
• HIV/AIDS
• Malaria Control
• Pay for Performance in Health

A key objective of SIEF is to strengthen the ability of researchers and policymakers to use monitoring and evaluation to build evidence on the effectiveness of programs to improve people’s lives through better health, nutrition, education, water and sanitation and social protection. SIEF sponsors quarterly workshops to train regional policymakers, researchers and development field staff in the nuts and bolts of impact evaluation. The goal is to encourage and support increased use of impact evaluation and to create a community of practice among development experts and policymakers. Workshops are invitation only and geared to specific development organizations, researchers, NGOs and government officials.

Workshops use materials from the Impact Evaluation in Practice - Second Edition handbook available in English.

Visit our Seminars page to see more of what SIEF is doing to share knowledge. 

2017

• Capacity Building workshop on Impact Evaluation of Employment Programs, Krakow, Poland - June 5-8, 2017
• Nimble RCTs, Washington, D.C., USA - May 23, 2017
• Guatemala Impact Evaluation Workshop, Guatemala - April 4-6, 2017
• Evaluating the Impact of Education and Health Policy in Nepal, Kathmandu, Nepal - March 28-31, 2017
• Training: The SDGs, Health, Education, and Early Childhood Development through Data-driven Storytelling, Kathmandu, Nepal - March 27-30, 2017
• Impact Evaluation Workshop to improve Youth Employment Programs in Poland, Gdansk, Poland - February 20-24, 2017

2016

• Measuring Early Childhood Development in Latin America, Lima, Peru - September 20-22, 2016 
• East Africa Impact Evaluation Workshop and Evidence Summit, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania - July 12-14, 2016
• Training Journalists on Data and the Global Goals, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania - July 11- July 15, 2016

2015

• Impact Evaluation Workshop, Luanda, Angola - November 19-21, 2015
• Eastern-Central Regional Workshop on Counterfactual Impact Evaluation Methods 2015, Budapest, Hungary - September 22-24, 2015
• Impact Evaluation Training: Evaluating Early Childhood Development Programmes, A Multi-Country Initiative, Kigali, Rwanda - July 27-31, 2015
• Impact Evaluation Workshop, Panamá City, Panamá, July 21-24, 2015
• Impact Evaluation Workshop, Abidjan, Cote D’Ivoire, June 22-26, 2015
• Impact Evaluation Workshop, Belgrade, Serbia - June 4-5, 2015
• Workshop on ECD Measurement for Preschool Children, Washington, D.C., USA - May 27-28, 2015
• Measurement of Basic Education Outcomes Workshop, Washington, D.C., USA - May 12-13, 2015
• Impact Evaluation Workshop, Nairobi, Kenya - May 5-8, 2015
• Impact Evaluation Workshop, Lima, Peru - March 16-20, 2015
• Early Childhood Development and Nutrition Measurement Workshop, Washington, D.C., USA - February 4-5, 2015

2014

• Impact Evaluation Workshop, Debre Zeit, Ethiopia - December 9-12, 2014
• Quality of Health Services & Products in Low Income Countries Workshop, Washington, D.C., USA - September 5-6, 2014 
• East Asia Regional Impact Evaluation Workshop - Evaluating the Impact of Development Programs: Turning Promises into Evidence, Seoul, Korea - May 5-9, 2014
• South Asia Regional Impact Evaluation Workshop, Dhaka, Bangladesh - April 27-29, 2014
• Monitoring and Impact Evaluation Training Workshop - Second Development Marketplace Convening Workshop, Delhi, India - April 23-25, 2014

2013

• Quality Education, Skills and Productivity Among Youth in Africa: Regional Impact Evaluation Workshop, Dakar, Senegal - September 30 - October 4, 2013
• Regional Impact Evaluation and Survey Methods Workshop, Santiago, Chile - April 8-19, 2013
• Regional Impact Evaluation and Survey Methods Workshop, New Delhi, India - March 11-22, 2013

2012

• Evaluating the Impact of Development Programs: Turning Promises into Evidence, Seoul, Korea - December 3-6, 2012
• Impact Evaluation Workshop, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia - May 21-25, 2012
• Santiago de Chile, Chile - January 16-27, 2012

2011

• Impact Evaluation Workshop, Dhaka, Bangladesh - October 9-13, 2011
• Seoul, Korea - August 29 - September 2, 2011

2010

• Impact Evaluation Workshop in partnership with the Korean Development Institute (KDI), Seoul, Korea - December 6-10, 2010
• A Next Generation Impact Evaluation (IE) Workshop, Tunis, Tunisia - October 18-22, 2010
• Impact Evaluation Workshop, Accra, Ghana - May 24-28, 2010
• Impact Evaluation Workshop, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil - April 26-30, 2010
• Impact Evaluation Workshop, Kathmandu, Nepal - February 22-26, 2010

2009

• Impact Evaluation Workshop, Cape Town, South Africa - December, 7-11, 2009
• Impact Evaluation Workshop, Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina - September 21-25, 2009
• Impact Evaluation Workshop, Beijing, China - July 20-24, 2009
• Impact Evaluation Workshop, Amman, Jordan - March 8-12, 2009
• Talleres de Evaluacion de Impacto, Lima, Peru - January 26-30, 2009

2008

• Impact Evaluation Workshop, Manila, Philippines - December 1-5, 2008
• Talleres de Evaluacion de Impacto, Madrid, Spain - June 23-27, 2008
• Impact Evaluation Workshop, Managua, Nicaragua - March 3-7, 2008
• Impact Evaluation Workshop, Cairo, Egypt - January 13-17, 2008

• EGRA Toolkit
  A user manual that for countries beginning to work with EGRA in such areas as local adaptation of the instrument, fieldwork, and analysis of results.
• Stallings User Guide
• Impact Evaluation in Practice - Second Edition
  The updated version covers the newest techniques for evaluating programs and includes state-of-the-art implementation advice, as well as an expanded set of examples and case studies that draw on recent development challenges.
• Measuring for Early Years
  Information and resources related to measuring the quality of early learning programs and early childhood skills
• Examining Early Child Development in Low-Income Countries: A Toolkit for the Assessment of Children in the First Five Years of Life
  The primary purpose of this toolkit is to provide a resource for researchers from various disciplines interested in planning and evaluating programs or interventions aimed at improving the health and development of infants and young children. The toolkit aims to: provide an overview of issues affecting early development and its measurement; discuss the types of tests typically used with children under five years; provide guidelines for selecting and adapting tests for use in developing countries, and make recommendations for planning successful assessment strategies. The toolkit focuses on children who have not yet entered school, and are thus under six years old.
• Measuring the Quality of Health Care in Clinics
  Until quite recently, governments and aid organizations have tried to improve health outcomes by investing in infrastructure, medical equipment, and drug supplies and by ensuring access to a certain number of qualified health workers. While these inputs are of course necessary for these functions, they are by no means sufficient. The presence of stethoscope is no guarantee that a medical provider will use it when necessary. A regular stock of modern drugs does not tell us if providers are prescribing tranquilizers for a simple cold or whether a provider can diagnose if a patient even has a cold. This note provides a brief overview of the surveys designed to measure the quality of care within clinics, focusing in particular on the quality of examination, diagnosis, and treatment offered to patients in the primary care setting.

This page lists a sample of publications from SIEF-supported impact evaluations. Please see individual evaluation pages for specific publications produced by SIEF research teams, including media coverage, presentations and videos. In addition, visit our Interviews and Blogs page, our Measurement and Data page, Videos page, our Impact page and other webpages for more products related to SIEF evaluations and our impact on policy.

World Bank publications

Supporting Disadvantaged Children to Enter Kindergarten: Experimental Evidence from Bulgaria
June 2017
Elise Huillery, Joost de Laat, and Paul Gertler

Testing and Scaling-up Supply- and Demand-side Interventions to Improve Kindergarten Educational Quality in Ghana
March 2017
Sharon Wolfa, Edward Tsinigob, Jere Behrmanc, and J. Lawrence Aber

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Peer reviewed journal articles

The Impact of Expanding Access to Early Childhood Education Services in Rural Indonesia
Sally Anne Brinkman, Amer Hasan, Haeil Jung, Angela Kinnell, Menno Pradhan
Journal of Labor Economics
July 2017

The role of preschool quality in promoting child development: evidence from rural Indonesia
Sally Anne Brinkman, Amer Hasan, Haeil Jung, Angela Kinnell, Nozomi Nakajima, and Menno Pradhan
European Early Childhood Education Research Journal
June 2017

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Other publications

NBER Working Paper No. 23264
Living Up to Expectations: How Job Training Made Women Better Off and Men Worse Off
March 2017
Paloma Acevedo, Guillermo Cruces, Paul Gertler, and Sebastián Martínez

Promoting Positive Parenting Practices in Niger through a Cash Transfer Programme
Oumar Barry, Ali Mory Maïdok, and Patrick Premand
Early Childhood Matters 2017
2017 

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Evidence to Policy briefs

Pakistan: Does Sharing Test Scores with Parents Improve Student Learning?

Tunisia: Can Entrepreneurship Education Improve Work Opportunities for College Graduates?

More policy briefs here >>