TTIX2015

1. Impact Evaluation for policymaking –
Learning about rigorous methods to inform
decision-making about what works in
development policies and programming
February 18, 2015
Istanbul, Turkey

2. Session Objectives
• To raise awareness about IE among developing country think tanks to
produce high-quality evidence to inform policymaking and
programming
• To share resources among TTI grantees interested in IE, including for
enhancing their policy advocacy work and funding opportunities
• To learn from TTI grantees their interest in further developing their
capacity to use, commission or develop IE

3. Session Guiding Questions:
• What is an IE and what it is not; What makes IE different,
when is it important to use IE? What are the different
types of IEs, and how to decide which one to use?
• How do to design a rigorous IE that is useful to decision-
makers and managers?
• How to promote the uptake and use of findings? What are
their limitations?
• How to enhance TTs capacities around IEs (to do them, to
commission them, to use IE evidence in providing advice
and in advocating for policy change)?

4. Session coordinator/facilitator:
• Carolina Robino, Senior Program Officer, IDRC
Presenters:
• Beryl Leach, Deputy Director, Head of the Policy, Advocacy and
Communication Office, International Initiative for Impact Evaluation
(3ie), India
• Miguel Jaramillo, Executive Director, Grupo de Análisis para el
Desarrollo (GRADE), Peru
Discussants:
• Anil Kumar Sharma, National Council for Applied Economic Research
(NCAER), India
• Ibrahim Kasirye, Economic Policy Research Centre (EPRC), Uganda

5. Session format:
• An impact evaluation step by step by Miguel Jaramillo
• Comments by Anil Kumar Sharma
• Q&A
• Why doing policy relevant IEs is so important and how to
achieve it through design and implementation – by Berly
Leach
• Comments by Ibrahim Kasirye
• Q&A
• Moderated discussion: learn from TTI grantees interest in
developing capacity to use, commission or develop IE
Inform the TTI Phase 2 Capacity Development Strategy

6. THANKS!!!
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