Date: January 15 and 16, 2008
Venue: Washington, DC, USA
January 15 and 16, 2008, Preston Auditorium, World Bank Headquarters, Washington, DC
The Poverty Reduction and Economic Management (PREM) Network, the Independent Evaluation Group (IEG), and the Development Economics Vice Presidency (DEC) of the World Bank are pleased to announce a conference “Making Smart Policy: Using Impact Evaluation for Policy Making.”
The one-and-a-half-day conference will bring together policy makers and staff from development agencies (see Speaker Bios) to explore how to design and use impact evaluation for increased policy impact and how to generate greater demand for impact evaluations.
Presentations
The Role of Impact Evaluations in Assessing Development Effectiveness
- Making Impact Evaluations More Useful, by Martin Ravallion (41kb PDF)
- The Role of Impact Evaluation in Relation to Other Types of Evaluation, by Philip Davies (70kb PDF)
The Role of Impact Evaluations in Development Agencies
- Millennium Challenge Corporation’s Perspective on IE, by Franck Wiebe (166kb PDF)
- The Role of Impact Evaluation in Spanish Cooperation, by Milagros Hernando (103kb PDF)
Evidence and Use: Parallel Sector Sessions
- Health
- An Impact Evaluation of China, by Adam Wagstaff (205kb PDF)
- Free Distribution or Cost-Sharing? Evidence from a Randomized Malaria Prevention Experiment, by Pascaline Dupas (59kb PDF)
- Education
- Promoting Lower Secondary School Attendance: The Impact of the CESSP Scholarship Program in Cambodia, by Deon Filmer (62kb PDF)
- The Effects of Generalized School Choice on Achievement and Stratification: Evidence from Chile’s Voucher Program, by Miguel Urquiola (78kb PDF)
- Sustainable Development
- Making Smart Policy: Using Impact Evaluations of Rural Roads, by Dominique van de Walle (61kb PDF)
- The Impact Evaluation of Microfinance Projects and their Expected Use, by Jocelyne Delarue (97kb PDF)
- An Impact Evaluation of Ethiopia’s Food Security Program, by John Hoddinott (88kb PDF)
- Anti-Poverty Programs and Conditional Cash Transfers
- Assessing Social Protection to the Poor: Evidence from Argentina, by Emanuela Galasso (51kb PDF)
- The Role of Impact Evaluation in the PROGRESA/Oportunidades Program of Mexico, by Emmanuel Skoufias (78kb PDF)
- Evaluating a Conditional Cash Transfer: The Experience of Familias en Acción in Colombia, by Orazio Attanasio (67kb PDF)
Reporting Back from Sector Sessions
- Impact Evaluation of Anti-poverty Programs and Conditional Cash Transfers, by Norbert Schady (38kb PDF)
- The Impact of Impact Evaluations: Lessons from the Education Sector, by Halsey Rogers (109kb PDF)
Role of Impact Evaluation in National Policy
- The Role of Impact Evaluation in National Policy: The Case of Colombia´s SINERGIA System, by Bertha Briceño (156kb PDF)
- Impact Evaluation in Mexico, by Gonzalo Hernández Licona (106kb PDF)
- Role of Impact Evaluation in National Policy: China Perspective, by Xiulan Zhang (106kb PDF)
Impact Evaluation Initiatives at the World Bank
- Africa Impact Evaluation Initiative, by Arianna Legovini (262kb PDF)
- DIME: Learning from Development Practice to Improve Policy and Program Design, by Ariel Fiszbein (131kb PDF)
- PREM-Poverty Reduction Group: Development Effectiveness Cluster, by Emmanuel Skoufias (553kb PDF)
- IEG and Impact Evaluation, by Howard White (18kb PDF)
- Spanish Trust Fund for Impact Evaluation (SIEF), by Maureen Lewis (169kb PDF)
