Resources for Impact Evaluation

Three main kinds of help

• Training

• Personalized support

• Resources

Training

• Regional trainings– HD– Regional units– TG/PRMPR support

• Central training– This course– DECDG spring course– BBL series

Personalized support:Clinics

• On-demand, brain storming session on impact evaluation design for TTLs– Goal is to have the sketch of an IE design by

the end of your session– Range of expertise brought in

• Where to find: see the brochure in your pack

Personalized support:contact people

• Regional contact people

• Sectoral contact people

• RegionXsector contact people

• HD chief economist

• TG/PREMPR

Resources: The Thematic Group

• Type impactevaluation (one word) in your browser

• Database of completed impact evaluations– Searchable by country, sector, method– Summarizes results and methods

• Searchable database of IE experts

Resources:The Thematic Group

• Doing Impact Evaluation Series:– IE and the project cycle– Conducting IE under budget, time and data

constraints– The Political Economy of Doing an Impact

Evaluation (summer 2006)– Data Options for IE (summer 2006)

Resources:The Thematic Group

• Doing Impact Evaluation Series: Part 2, Sectoral Methods (summer 2006)– Nutrition– Water and sanitation– Urban transport– Microfinance– Land reform– Rural roads

Existing DataDECDG

• Type data into your browser for the Development Data Platform

• http://www.worldbank.org/data/countrydata/csid.html#S