1. Impact Evaluations of Priority Programs– The bulk of SIEF resources have been used to fund impact evaluations of programs designed to improve human development outcomes. Funding for evaluations was allocated through three separate funding windows described below.
See description of SIEF-financed evaluations by area: Quick Wins Fund, Cluster Fund, and Innovation Fund
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
– January – SAR Region (Colombo, Sri Lanka)
– April – AFR Region (Nairobi, Kenya)
– May – LAC Region (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)
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
– High quality global policy studies, designed to synthesize the evidence generated from this program and others on “what works” to promote HD outcomes; global and regional conferences to disseminate major results; public access databases and Spanish translation of research results.
SIEF has assigned available trust fund resources to priority impact evaluations:
1. Prospective and rigorous, preferably randomized, identification strategies (to ensure that program impact is measured vis-Ã -vis a valid control group).
2. Programs either currently or prospectively supported by World Bank lending (a World Bank staff member must manage the work).
3. Programs in one of 72 eligible developing countries Spain has prioritized (see list below).
4. Programs that fall under one of the 11 priority areas identified by Spain (see list below).
Eligible Sectors
1. Poverty and Hunger
2. Education
3. Social Protection & Labor
4. Health
5. HIV/AIDS, Malaria and Other Diseases
6. Gender
7. Fertility and Reproductive Health
8. Children and Youth
9. Disability
10. Water and Sanitation
11. Housing
List of Eligible Countries
LATIN AMERICA
- Argentina
- Bolivia
- Brazil
- Chile
- Colombia
- Costa Rica
- Dominican Republic
- Ecuador
- El Salvador
- Guatemala
- Haiti
- Honduras
- Jamaica
- Mexico
- Nicaragua
- Panama
- Paraguay
- Peru
- Uruguay
- Venezuela
MIDDLE EAST AND NORTH AFRICA
- Algeria
- Egypt
- Jordan
- Lebanon
- Morocco
- Syria
- Tunisia
- West Bank & Gaza
EASTERN EUROPE
- Albania
- Bosnia & Herzegovina
- Turkey
SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA
- Angola
- Benin
- Botswana
- Burkina Faso
- Cape Verde
- DR of Congo
- Equatorial Guinea
- Eritrea
- Ethiopia
- Ghana
- Guinea-Bissau
- Kenya
- Lesotho
- Liberia
- Madagascar
- Malawi
- Mali
- Mauritania
- Mozambique
- Namibia
- Niger
- Nigeria
- Rwanda
- Sao Tome & Principe
- Senegal
- South Africa
- Sudan
- Tanzania
- Uganda
EAST ASIA
- Cambodia
- China
- Indonesia
- Philippines
- Timor-Leste
- Vietnam
SOUTH ASIA
- Afghanistan
- Bangladesh
- India
- Nepal
- Pakistan
- Sri Lanka
1. Quick Wins Fund
The goal of the Quick Wins Fund (now closed) was to provide limited funding to a small number of ongoing high quality impact evaluations within existing clusters that demonstrated immediate funding needs when SIEF was launched in 2007.
– Click here to see list of Quick Wins evaluations approved by the Steering Committee
2. Cluster FundThe Cluster Fund systematically evaluates similar interventions across different country contexts. The SIEF Technical Committee allocated US $5.9 million to fund 26 of impact evaluations in six clusters.
– Click here to see the
SIEF Technical Committee rankings by cluster– Click here to see list of
Cluster Fund proposals approved by the Steering Committee 3. Innovation Fund
The Innovation Fund (US $2.6 million) has supported
individual impact evaluations that are highly innovative. A key goal was to support evaluations with high demonstration potential. The interventions, programs and approaches
were required to affect HD outcomes, even if the intervention or program was not in a HD sector. Under this call, “innovative” refers to:
– Promising technologies which have not been implemented or rigorously evaluated before in developing countries.– New methods of service delivery which have not been implemented or rigorously evaluated before in developing countries.
As one of the core objectives of the SIEF is to understand the scope for non-HD interventions and programs to improve HD outcomes, the Innovation Fund made awards through two separate windows:
–Â HD Window ($1 million) – for the following SIEF sectors/themes: poverty and hunger; education; social protection & labor; health; HIV/AIDS, malaria and other diseases; gender; fertility and reproductive health; children and youth; disability
–Â SD Window ($1 million) – for the following SIEF sectors: water and sanitation; housing
Click here to view Innovation Fund Proposals Approved by the SIEF Steering Committee.
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