WFP IE Forum Day 2: WFP Evaluation’s Kriti Malhotra and Paul Christian presenting the Impact Evaluation design and results of our Anticipatory Action work in Nepal. Watch here: bit.ly/IE-Forum-Day2A #Evidence4Impact USAID World Bank Research

What difference are we making? Day 2 of the World Food Programme Impact Evaluation Forum wraps up with evidence shared by WFP and our learning partners, including the World Bank Research Development Impact Evaluation (DIME) unit #Evidence4Impact

Our executive director Marie Gaarder is at WFP Evaluation's Impact Evaluation Forum speaking on building an organizational culture of evidence. Read about the recent 3ie-led Global Evidence Commitment to strengthen and institutionalize evidence use: bit.ly/3iepledge

Join the closing of the World Food Programme Impact Evaluation Forum at ⏰ 4pm CET today for a wrap-up on partnership, evidence & the road ahead Online link here ➡️bit.ly/IE-Forum-Closi… World Bank Research Norad MGN @Eval_Forward PRESTO Jonas Heirman, DPhil USAID's Bureau for Humanitarian Assistance #Evidence4Impact

Super interesting: The way we measure global poverty focuses -- inadvertently, but perhaps usefully -- pretty heavily on households' ability to cope with shocks, rather than their average income over the year. joshmerfeld.github.io/assets/papers/… Josh Merfeld Jonathan Morduch

🌎 Social protection systems are key for mitigating climate risks Today we're presenting #evidence from WFP Nepal's anticipatory action programming at a workshop in Bangkok with partners from across Southeast Asia ➡️More about the impact evaluation here bit.ly/49bvyJK

🇸🇻 In El Salvador, only 45.4% of women participate in the labour market, compared to 74.4% of men 👭 What happens when women are encouraged to work outside the home and get 💵? ➡️ World Food Programme asked, using a randomized evaluation and share our findings here: bit.ly/3TvZJG0

I’m happy to see this first impact evaluation as part of our “Cash-based transfer & Gender” IE window published. Follow the link for the full report and also a brief summarizing the RCT design and results.

Five years after the launch of World Food Programme’s Impact Evaluation Strategy, demand for impact evaluation evidence is higher than ever. Using examples from WFP programmes, we uncover the reasons why in our latest blog Jonas Heirman, DPhil Simone Lombardini @Kris10McCollum medium.com/p/0df7e0bfd5b9

As UN Humanitarian's Humanitarian Networks and Partnerships Weeks kicks off World Food Programme Evaluation is excited to present a session on: 🚨 Lean Impact Evaluations: Using A/B testing to optimize humanitarian interventions Interested? ➡️Register HERE: bit.ly/HNPW-WFP-impac… 🗓️ Thursday, 2 May ⏲️ 15:00-16:30 Rome time

Great opportunity to work with ISDC Berlin (Ghassan Baliki, Andrea Guariso) and us at the World Food Programme Impact Evaluation Unit (Jonas Heirman, DPhil) as a field coordinator on a large scale RCT on improving HH-level targeting in Lebanon: lnkd.in/dgqYJeGp WFP Lebanon - برنامج الأغذية العالمي في لبنان WFP Evaluation

✨Exciting new work in Peru!✨ WFP Evaluation is collaborating with WFP Perú (Programa Mundial de Alimentos) and World Bank DIME on an Impact Evaluation on different cash-transfer modalities for in-transit migrants and refugees from Venezuela. #ZeroHunger Jonas Heirman, DPhil Felipe Alexander Dunsch Arlen Guarin

Health facilities need consistent support for sustained improvements. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.11… Evidence out of Nigeria by Felipe Alexander Dunsch, Eze-Ajoku, Mario Macis, and me

⁉️ How can #evidence show the difference we’re making in 🚨 fragile contexts? Cindy McCain Cindy McCain is providing an opening video address at the Global Impact #Evaluation Forum hosted by World Food Programme & UNICEF Evaluation at the United Nations ➡️ Join live at: bit.ly/4gdV1Gt #Evidence4Impact

🔵 From Rome 2023 to New York 2024, the community of practice for impact #evaluation in humanitarian & development settings are growing 🟡 Thanks for engaging in the UNICEF Evaluation World Food Programme Global Impact Evaluation Forum at the United Nations 🔴 Until we meet again on #Evidence4Impact

Using evidence to make humanitarian aid more effective Starting in one hour w/ Jeannie Annan IRC - International Rescue Committee The Airbel Impact Lab at the IRC, @BehaghelL Paris School of Economics J-PAL, Tarek Ghani WashU Olin Business School & Jonas Heirman World Food Programme. Register here: cepr-org.zoom.us/webinar/regist…

"Taleb has succeeded in creating a full system that goes from empirics to ethics, a thing which is exceedingly rare in modern world. Whether because we are tired of grand systems or because our knowledge has been parceled due to the way knowledge is created and disseminated in

"Depending on how you frame the question, you can get radically different results." I heard this expressed in a meeting and remembered that Felipe Alexander Dunsch, Mario Macis, Wang and I have an example of that with patient satisfaction surveys in Nigeria. gh.bmj.com/content/3/2/e0…

Our World Food Programme Impact Evaluation Unit (Simone Lombardini) was hosting Aulo Gelli from IFPRI today, who discussed his recent study from Yemen 🇾🇪 on the positive effects and cost-effectiveness of adding milk 🥛 to a school meals program. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf… WFP Evaluation

Last night at dinner one of my kids talked about hearing about "loaded language" in surveys and I was like: I HAVE A STUDY I NEED TO TELL YOU ABOUT! gh.bmj.com/content/3/2/e0…