Launching 3ie's Development Evidence Portal: What is the state of evidence?

The International Initiative for Impact Evaluation (3ie)'s new continually-updated and curated portal of high-quality evidence on the effectiveness of development interventions (https://developmentevidence.3ieimpact.org/) hopes to change how researchers, decision makers and practitioners invest their time and access existing evidence.

This will be a combination of an in-person seminar and simultaneous interactive webinar to launch the 3ie Development Evidence Portal, a first and important step towards an evidence infrastructure that supports more and better use of evidence to inform decisions about policies and programmes designed to improve lives. The new evidence portal is an upgrade of 3ie’s existing impact evaluation and systematic review repositories, with improved search and filtering capabilities, and new features including user accounts, citation downloads and an improved data extraction protocol, extending the information available on the portal.

The 3ie evidence portal includes over 3,700 impact evaluations and systematic reviews, with content updated through 2017, making it the largest portal of its kind for international development evidence. For researchers, decision makers and practitioners it provides a gold mine of easily accessible and freely available evidence on what works.

The seminar/webinar will include an overview of the portal’s key features and functionalities, along with a practical demonstration of how the portal can deliver targeted information to support decision making. The event will also include an opportunity for the audience (local and virtual) to provide inputs and feedback. It will also present a summary of the ‘state of the evidence’ based on an analysis of the data from the evidence portal.