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In 2021, the World Food Programme’s Impact Evaluation Unit teamed up with WFP’s School-Based Programme division and the World Bank’s Development Impact Evaluation (DIME) department to launch the School-Based Programmes Impact Evaluation Window. This blog highlights four lessons.

Meet the seven new researchers joining DECRG and DIME at the World Bank

This blog highlight the experiences of two fellows from last year’s World Bank Robert S. McNamara Fellowships Program.

In a partnership with the World Banks' DIME, a USAID-funded workstream in collaboration with the World Food Programme’s Office of Evaluation assesses the effectiveness and efficiency of cash and in-kind transfers in humanitarian settings.

Making informed policy decisions requires having access to high-quality data. However, the adoption of electronic data collection tools remains a challenge in many low-income countries. This blog showcases four constraints on implementing such methods.

Mobile phones generate a staggering amount of data, allowing researchers to address previously unanswerable questions, and answer existing questions with new depth and granularity. How are researchers making use of mobile data to...

This week's links include an interview with Penny Goldberg, the consideration set IV design, testing IV assumptions, and more...

Sixty eight percent of households that depend on agriculture in Nepal will face severe consequences as a result of COVID-19, making it a critical issue for policy makers.

This week's links include comparing non-experimental machine learning estimates to RCT results, a policy talk on the influences on female decision-making in India, jobs with DIME, and more...

Education technology is leveraging smartphones to reverse the pandemic-induced learning crisis.