When Will We Ever Learn: Recommendations to Improve Social Development through Enhanced Impact Evaluation

What works to improve health, education and other social indicators in developing countries?

Despite decades of large investments by development agencies and developing countries themselves, the evidence base to answer this question is surprisingly slim. With new financial commitments by donors and increased attention to achieving major gains in health, education and poverty reduction over the next 10 years, the opportunity and the imperative now exist to build knowledge about the impact of particular types of interventions on key outcomes.

The Center for Global Development invites you to review and comment on a new draft report, “When Will We Ever Learn? Recommendations to Improve Social Development through Enhanced Impact Evaluation,” which seeks to analyze the causes for the under-supply of knowledge about “what works,” and propose a specific set of actions to address that problem by coordinating, improving and funding impact evaluations.

The report is available for download at: www.cgdev.org/section/initiatives/_active/evalgap.

Please visit this site to:
       READ the report and proposal
       TAKE the survey and offer comments
       GET ANSWERS to Frequently Asked Questions
       SIGN UP to receive updates about the progress of this initiative

Please share this note with colleagues who may be interested. If you have any questions or comments about the initiative, please direct them to Jessica Gottlieb at jgottlieb@cgdev.org.