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Spanish-World Bank Trust Fund for Impact Evaluation (SIEF)

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

BACKGROUND AND CONTEXT

The Spanish Trust Fund for Impact Evaluation (SIEF) is the largest trust fund ever established in the World Bank focused on impact evaluation. A €10.4 million program funded by Spain, its goal is to support the World Bank in evaluating the impact of innovative programs to improve human development (HD) outcomes. SIEF supports prospective, rigorous evaluations in eligible developing countries, impact evaluation training, publications, and dissemination of results. The program will run from July 2007–December 2010.

As Spain scales up its own development assistance, improving aid effectiveness and promoting results-based management in its own agencies and in partner developing countries is increasingly important. The SIEF advances global knowledge on "what works" to promote MDGs and other key HD goals. It also builds the capacity of developing countries, World Bank staff, Spanish and other development partner agency staff to carry out rigorous impact evaluations and effectively utilize the results.

Click here for information on SIEF’s governance structure.

SIEF'S PRIORITY AGENDA

1. Impact Evaluations of Priority Programs

– The bulk of SIEF resources are funding impact evaluations of programs designed to improve human development outcomes. Funding for evaluations is available through three separate funding windows described below.

How to access: See description of 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.

2008 SIEF Workshops

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


2009 SIEF Workshops

– January 26-30 – LAC Region (Lima, Peru)
– March (TBC) – ECA Region (Istanbul, Turkey)
– May (TBC) – SA Region (Delhi, India)


How to access: Regional HD Sector Directors may request support for IE workshops with a memo to the HD Chief Economist.

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.


How to access: Please send requests to SIEF Program Manager, Barbara Bruns (bbruns@worldbank.org).

WHAT TYPES OF EVALUATIONS ARE ELIGIBLE?


All evaluations must impact HD outcomes as well as fulfill the following criteria:

1. Prospective and rigorous, preferably randomized, identification strategies (to ensure that program impact is measured vis-à-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
FUNDING WINDOW INFORMATION

1. Quick Wins Fund

The goal of the Quick Wins Fund is to provide limited funding to a small number of ongoing high quality impact evaluations within existing clusters that demonstrated immediate funding needs.

– Click here to see list of Quick Wins programs approved by the Steering Committee

2. Cluster Fund

The Cluster Fund systematically evaluates similar interventions in 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

Unlike the Cluster Fund, the Innovation Fund (US $2.6 million) supports individual impact evaluations that are highly innovative. A key goal of the Innovation Fund is to support evaluation with high demonstration potential. In every case, the research must focus on interventions, programs and approaches that affect HD outcomes, even if the intervention or program is not in a HD sector. Under this call, “innovative” refers to:

– Promising technologies which have no 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 will make awards through two separate windows:

HD Window ($1 million) – for the following SIEF-eligible 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
SD Window ($1 million) – for the following SIEF-eligible sectors: water and sanitation; housing

The final $600,000 available will be allocated to the highest ranked proposals across the two windows. No proposal will be funded through either window, however, unless it meets a threshold standard of technical rigor and team quality. If insufficient applications meet the quality threshold, funds will be reserved for a future call for proposals.

TIMELINE

Innovation Fund:
1. Deadline for proposals: June 11, 2008
2. Technical Committee Review Meeting: July 9, 2008 (TBC)
3. Steering Committee approves Innovation Fund program: July 23, 2008 (TBC)
4. Innovation Fund awards communicated to evaluations TTLs: August 1, 2008 (TBC)

Call for Proposals: Innovation Fund

Detailed Call for Proposals

Template for Submissions

Budget Template

ABOUT HD NETWORK IMPACT EVALUATION PROGRAMS

The mission of the Office of the Chief Economist (CE) for the Human Development Network is to improve the analytical and operational quality of the World Bank’s efforts to promote sustainable and inclusive “investment in people”.

The CE unit is responsible for advising on the quality of analytical work conducted by staff of the HD Network, with primary focus on the areas of education, health, HIV/AIDS, social protection, children and youth and disability. The goal is to develop evidence based policy advice for local governments, as well as international agencies and donors.

The CE unit is actively involved in research to strengthen the knowledge base for HD policy by promoting systematic impact evaluations in Bank-supported HD projects, and in training Bank staff and government officials on the value of evidence from rigorous impact evaluations and the for policy and program design.


Last updated: 2008-05-08




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