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The scandalous underinvestment in the global evidence architecture

26 July 2019

By Howard White This article is the third of three in a series "Reflections on the evidence architecture".Today a child will sit in a classroom but not learn anything for want of the use of research evidence. Today a child will not go to school for want of the use of such evidence. Today a child will go hungry, be abu....

The Evidence Peter Principle: the misuse and abuse of evidence

23 July 2019

By Howard White This article is the second of three in a series "Reflections on the evidence architecture".Back in the early 70s, I read my father's copy of Lawrence Peter and Raymond Hull's management book, The Peter Principle. People are promoted to their level of incompetence. A good salesperson gets promoted to ma....

Putting evidence to work, to do what works: the evidence-based project cycle

23 July 2019

By Howard White This article is the first of three in a series on "Reflections on the evidence architecture". In the next two articles I will explore the misuse and underuse of evidence.It is very fashionable now to speak of using evidence and evidence-based programmes. But actually, evidence is being under-used and m....

Interview with Terri Pigott

18 June 2019

By Ciara Keenan This article was originally posted on the Meta-evidence website on 25 April 2018.We are honoured to welcome Professor Terri Pigott to the blog this week. Terri is a specialist in meta-analysis methods and teaches at Loyola University Chicago where she is the Associate Provost for Research. Additionally,....

Pre-school teacher qualifications and the quality of daycare environments

02 May 2019

This article was first published in Danish on the website of the Danish Centre for Social Science Research, VIVE.The quality of a children's daycare environment is related to the level of training of the teachers who work there. This is the conclusion of a research review from the Campbell Collaboration. However, the s....

Interview with Peter Neyroud

11 April 2019

This article was originally posted on the Meta-evidence website on 14 March 2018.This week we had the pleasure of speaking to Dr Peter Neyroud, CBE QPM about his stellar and fascinating career as a policymaker, funder, researcher, and a world-leading advocate for evidence-based approaches to policing.Dr Peter Neyroud, ....

Interview with Emily Tanner-Smith

29 March 2019

Interview conducted by Ciara Keenan and bio written by Jennifer Hanratty This article was originally posted on the Meta-evidence website on 12 February 2018.We are delighted to have Emily Tanner-Smith as our guest this week. Professor Tanner-Smith is Research Scientist at the Prevention Science Institute and Associate ....

Here be monsters? Innovations in evidence mapping

28 March 2019

By Howard White and Ashrita Saran In the concluding session of last year’s Global Evidence and Implementation Summit one participant commented that this summit has been about maps, maps, maps.There has indeed been a huge rise in evidence mapping. A map of maps in international development led by 3ie as part of the Ce....

Making evidence available

28 March 2019

By Howard White Evidence – what is it good for? Absolutely nothing… if no one knows about it. But that is the fate of too much evidence, such as evaluation studies.Evaluation has two functions: accountability and lesson learning. But no one is learning any lessons from the many evaluations which are done and then ....

We systematically reviewed all meta-studies of financial inclusion - this is what we found

10 January 2019

By Maren Duvendack and Philip Mader The impacts of financial inclusion and microfinance in developing countries have been hotly debated for many years. With so many systematic reviews having been published over the last decade, it is hard for anyone to keep an overview, let alone come to a summary conclusion. With thi....

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