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SIEF Impact Evaluation Workshop (Sarajevo)

HDN: Spanish - World Bank Trust Fund for Impact Evaluation and Results-based Management in Human Development Sectors (SIEF)
SIEF IMPACT EVALUATION WORKSHOPS

Sarajevo Participant Details


Total: 115
Government Officials: 85
World Bank staff: 30
Number of project teams: 12

Participant Countries

Albania, Azerbaijan, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Croatia, Hungary, Kazakhstan, Kyrgystan, Macedonia, Montenegro, Russia, Tajikistan, Turkey, Ukraine, Serbia and Kosovo. Participation of Spain as donor country.

Location:SARAJEVO, BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA
Dates:September 21-25, 2009
Resources:
• Workshop Materials
• Case Studies
• IE Methods
• Templates
• Participant/Group Impact Evaluations

WORKSHOP OBJECTIVES

The workshops are designed to achieve concrete improvements in participants’ technical understanding and skills and to generate solid designs for prospective evaluations of key development programs. Key goals include:

  • Increasing awareness and knowledge in rigorous methods of impact evaluation: including IE design and management and effective utilization of generated evidence.
  • Developing results chains, monitoring frameworks and rigorous IE designs
  • Establishing impact evaluation ideas driven by stakeholders’ policy priorities and information requirements.
  • Providing training on impact evaluation methods.
  • Promoting continued dialogue on rigorous assessment and methodology.

WORKSHOP MATERIALS

  • Agenda - (English)(Russian)
  • Measuring Results and Impact Evaluation: From Promises into Evidence - Dean Karlan - (English)(Russian)
  • Operational Issues in Impact Evaluation - Laura Rawlings - (English)(Russian)
  • Monitoring and Evaluation: The Foundations for Results - Laura Rawlings - (English)(Russian)

CASE STUDIES

  • Integrating Impact Evaluation into Decision Making: The Mexico Experience - Gloria M. Rubio Soto - (English)(Russian)
  • Pay-for-Performance Experiments in Health Care - Mattias Lundberg - (English(Russian)
  • Baseline Survey on Cost and Efficiency in Primary Health Care Centers (Dom zdravlja) before Provider Payment Reforms - Predrag Djukic - (English)
  • Active Labor Market Policies for Youth - Mattias Lundberg - (English)(Russian)
  • ACTIVATION: Building the Bridges in the Social Policy Agenda - Ufuk Guven - (English)
  • Evidence on School-Based Management Reforms around the World - Joost de Laat - (English)(Russian)
  • Evidence on School-Based Management (SBM) Reforms around the World: A Discussion of Key Points - Juan Diego Alonso - (English)

IMPACT EVALUATION METHODS

Policymaker Sessions

  • Measuring Impact: Impact Evaluation Methods for Policy Makers - Christel Vermeersch -(English)

Technical Sessions - Identification Strategies

  • Technical Track Overview - Plamen Nikolov and Patrick Premand - (English)(Russian)
  • Causal Inference - Plamen Nikolov (English)(Russian)
  • Randomized Experiments - Plamen Nikolov - (English)
  • Differences in Differences (Dif-in-dif) and Panel Data - Patrick Premand - (English)(Russian)
  • Instrumental Variables - Patrick Premand - (English)(Russian)
  • Regression Discontinuity - Plamen Nikolov - (English)
  • Matching Techniques - Patrick Premand - (English)(Russian)
  • Planning Sample Size for Randomized Evaluations - Mattias Lundberg - (English)(Russian)

Templates

  • IE Presentation Template - (English)

Participant/Group Impact Evaluations

  1. Scholarship Program for Physicians - (English)
  2. Prevention of Massive Non-Communicable Diseases Program - (English)
  3. Проект финансированияпо результатам в Кыргызстане - (Russian)
  4. CCT in Kazakhstan - (English)
  5. Reform of Primary Health System - (English)
  6. Raising the Quality of Primary Education in ICT-based Learning Environment - (English)
  7. Conditional Cash Transfers and Social Inclusion in the Republic of Tajikistan - (English)
  8. Output Based Financing for NCD's - (English)
  9. Introducing Per Capita Financing in Education in Serbia - (English)
  10. DILS Projects – Increasing Employability of People with Disabilities in Serbia - (English)
  11. Impact Evaluation of the Introduction of DRGs - (English)
  12. Improving Employment of Roma Communities through Labor Inclusion Strategies
    - (English)

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