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Review of the World Bank's Strategic Impact Evaluation Fund
Jul 10, 2015
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The Strategic Impact Evaluation Fund (SIEF) was created with funding from the Department for International Development (DfID) to support impact evaluations focusing on human development outcomes, building capacity on impact evaluations, and synthesising and disseminating the findings of impact evaluations along with wider evidence in its thematic subject areas. SIEF's objective is to "strengthen the effectiveness of DfID's and others' global aid policies, programmes and partnerships." In the long run, SIEF is expected to contribute towards an improved delivery of DfID's and World Bank's programmes with human development outcomes and to improved human development outcomes for poor populations. DfID commissioned RAND Europe to conduct a Mid Term Review (MTR) of SIEF. The MTR drew on a number of methods to collect a wide range of data upon which the review was based. RAND Europe conducted a survey of applicants to SIEF funding, reviewed all available documentation, and conducted interviews and an online focus group with stakeholders, including in DfID and SIEF. On the basis of the data collected, RAND Europe drafted recommendations to support the future development of SIEF and to help ensure that SIEF can generate an impact in the future. Drawing on expertise in evaluations as well as in impact assessment, RAND Europe aimed to contribute to the goals of SIEF outlined above.
Chapter One
Introduction and background
Chapter Two
Methodology
Chapter Three
Research question 2: SIEF value for money
Chapter Four
Research question 3: Management of calls for proposal
Chapter Five
Research question 4: impact evaluation trainings and clinics
Chapter Six
Research question 5: evidence-to-policy notes
Chapter Seven
Research question 6: consideration of gender
Chapter Eight
Research question 1: overall design of SIEF
Chapter Nine
Conclusions and recommendations
Appendix A
Theory of Change for SIEF
Appendix B
Interview protocol
Appendix C
Survey questions (successful and unsuccessful)
Appendix D
Detailed survey methodology
Appendix E
Focus group protocol
Appendix F
Key risks from the business case
Appendix G
10 questions to assess knowledge gain
Appendix H
Workshop data gender-disaggregated
Appendix I
Additional survey results
Appendix J
Results E2P notes gender check
Appendix K
SIEF proposal selection process
Appendix L
Comments on E2P notes
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