The program is managed by the HDN Chief Economist’s office (Program Manager, Laura Rawlings). Evaluations are conducted by joint teams of World Bank (or outside consultant) research staff and regional task teams responsible for the programs being evaluated.

Click here for information on SIEF’s team and governance structure.

Click here for information on resources for SIEF TTLs (internal only)

For more information, please contact SIEF Program Manager, Laura Rawlings (lrawlings@worldbank.org)

From the beginning of the Fund in 2007, SIEF has been supporting impact evaluation through three different pillars:

The bulk of SIEF resources have been used to fund impact evaluations of programs designed to improve human development outcomes.  Click here to learn more about the criteria, topics and countries.

Funding for evaluations was allocated through three separate windows: Cluster Fund, Innovation Fund and Quick Wins Fund. Click here to see a description of the SIEF financed evaluations by these windows.

2. Regional Workshops on Impact Evaluation

The SIEF supports up to 5 field-based Impact Evaluation workshops per year to build staff, client and donor capacity for measuring results, evaluating impact and using evaluation evidence for policy.

2009 SIEF Workshops

– December 7-11 – AFR Region (Cape Town, South Africa)
– September 21-25– ECA Region (Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina)
– July 20-24 – EAP Region (Beijing, China)
– March 8-12 – MENA Region (Amman, Jordan)
– January 26-30 – LAC Region (Lima, Peru)

2008 SIEF Workshops

– December 1-5 – EAP Region (Manila, Philippines)
– June 23-27 – Madrid, Spain
– March 3-7 – LAC Region (Managua, Nicaragua)
– January 13-17 – MENA Region (Cairo, Egypt)

Upcoming SIEF Workshops 2010

– February – SAR Region (Colombo, Sri Lanka)
– April – LAC Region (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)

– May – AFR Region (Nairobi, Kenya)

If you are outside the World Bank and wish to attend a SIEF workshop, please contact SIEF Program Manager, Laura Rawlings (lrawlings@worldbank.org).

3. Results Dissemination

One of the main purposes of SIEF is to promote dissemination and knowledge sharing on effective impact evaluation strategies and on the results achieved in programs addressing Human Development challenges. In order to accomplish this goal, SIEF developes dissemination activities such as: high quality global policy studies, designed to synthesize the evidence generated from this program and others on “what works” to promote HD outcomes; public access databases and Spanish translation of research results.