New: Registry of International Development Impact Evaluation The International Initiative for Impact Evaluation (3ie) has launched the Registry of International Development Impact Evaluation (RIDIE), a prospective registry of impact evaluations related to development in low- and middle-income countries. The purpose of the registry is to enhance the transparency and quality of evaluation research as well as to provide a repository of impact evaluation studies for researchers, funders, and others. RIDIE will register development impact evaluations that rigorously attempt to estimate the causal impacts of a programme, including but not limited to randomized control trials. As a prospective registry, researchers and evaluators can record information about their evaluation designs before conducting analysis, as well as update information as the study proceeds and post findings upon study completion. This information on all planned, on-going, and published or unpublished impact evaluations, will help researchers, funders, and policymakers to find out what interventions are being or will be evaluated in a given country or topical domain. It will also avoid undesirable duplication of efforts as well as indicate where information gaps are largest — both of which are crucial in the light of resource constraints for programmes in developing countries. RIDIE is different from other registries in a number of notable ways: - RIDIE registers all experimental and quasi-experimental studies, not just randomised controlled trials; - RIDIE focuses on evaluations in low- and middle-income countries; - RIDIE is restricted to actual programme evaluations, and does not include behavioural laboratory experiments; and - RIDIE aims to include all impact evaluations meeting the above criteria, not only scholarly research destined for journal publication. We encourage you to register your impact evaluations on RIDIE. The first hundred registrations will be automatically entered in a lottery to win one of five Microsoft Surface RT or Apple iPad2 tablet computers. See contest rules RIDIE was created and developed for 3ie by the RAND Corporation. ridie.3ieimpact.org/
Posted on: Wed, 18 Sep 2013 14:44:12 +0000
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