Blogs – Evidence dialogue

23 Jul 2021

Evidence Dialogues: A new Evidence Gap Map shows what we know, and what we don’t, about routine vaccinations

While the COVID pandemic may be what brought vaccinations to the forefront of global headlines, the public health community has been working for decades to...

28 May 2021

Evidence Dialogues: Implementation research is key to understanding why nutrition interventions work – or don’t

Food may be one of the most basic human needs, but designing effective development interventions to provide the world’s undernourished enough to eat is anything...

18 Mar 2021

Evidence Dialogue: For development institutions, learning requires more than collecting data

The world’s development institutions collect lots of data – but do they learn from it? Perhaps not as much as they should. Between the challenges...

11 Dec 2020

Evidence Dialogue: Small nudges can help farmers adopt new technologies

To encourage smallholder farmers to adopt new agricultural technologies, sometimes little nudges – like an automated 6 am phone call – can be effective where...

16 Oct 2020

Women’s empowerment requires more than just economic resources

Although women’s economic empowerment has received increased attention from policymakers in the last decade, progress remains frustratingly slow. Gaps in wages, education, autonomy, and social...

30 Sep 2020

Peacebuilding programs are stronger when informed by evidence, despite the constraints of their environments

In response to new and ongoing violent conflicts, the international community increasingly reacts not just with humanitarian aid, but also with innovative transitional assistance and...

14 Sep 2020

How do food system interventions affect food security and nutrition? We’re mapping the evidence

Malnutrition is a global issue which disproportionately affects low- and middle-income countries (L&MICs). To make sure nutrition programmes that promote affordable, accessible, diverse and balanced...

11 Sep 2020

Phone surveys in developing countries need an abundance of caution

If you have looked at last year’s Nobel prize winners work in economics you will realize that it is heavily dependent on good quality primary...