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SIEF Impact Evaluation Workshop (Amman, Jordan)

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

Amman Participant Details


Total: 206
Government Officials: 180
World Bank staff: 26
Number of project teams: 17


Participant Countries

• Egypt
• Iraq
• Iran
• Jordan
• Lebanon
• Morocco
• Syria
• Yemen
• West Bank and Gaza


Location:AMMAN, JORDAN
Dates:March 8-12, 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 (Arabic) (English)
  • Welcome Slide (Arabic)
  • Impact Evaluation as a Tool for Decision-Making - Ariel Fiszbein - (Arabic) (English)
  • Integrating Impact Evaluation into Decision Making: The Mexico Experience - Gloria Rubio - (Arabic) (English)
  • Monitoring and Evaluation: the Foundations for Results - Laura Rawlings - (Arabic) (English)
  • Operational Issues in Impact Evaluation - Laura Rawlings - (Arabic) (English)

CASE STUDIES

  • Conditional Cash Transfers: Learning from Impact Evaluations - Ariel Fiszbein - (Arabic) (English)
  • Impact Evaluation of an Education CCT in Yemen - Tazeen Fasih - (Arabic) (English)
  • GOTVaccine - (Arabic)

IMPACT EVALUATION METHODS


Policymaker Sessions

  • Impact Evaluation Methods for Policymakers - Sebastian Martinez - (Arabic) (English)

Technical Sessions - Identification Strategies

  • Introductory Materials
    • Technical Track Overview - Damien de Walque and Christel Vermeersch - (Arabic) (English)
    • Impact Evaluation Methods: Introduction to Parallel Tracks - Christel Vermeersch - (Arabic) (English)
  • Causal Inference - Damien de Walque - (Arabic) (English)
  • Randomized Experiments - Damien de Walque - (Arabic) (English)
  • Differences in Differences (Dif-in-dif) and Panel Data - Christel Vermeersch - (Arabic) (English)
  • Instrumental Variables - Christel Vermeersch - (Arabic) (English)
  • Regression Discontinuity - Christel Vermeersch - (Arabic) (English)
  • Matching Techniques - Damien de Walque - (Arabic) (English)
  • Planning Sample Size for Randomized Evaluations - Jed Friedman - (Arabic) (English)

Templates

Participant/Group Impact Evaluations

  1. Employer Driven Skills Development Project (EDSD) 
  2. Employment for Young Female Graduates in Jordan 
  3. Expansion of the Social Security 
  4. Higher Education Reform for the Knowledge Economy Project - Student Loan/Grant Program 
  5. Jordan Education Initiative 
  6. National Breast Cancer Early Detection and Screening Program 
  7. Women Knowledge Network (NASHMIYAT) 
  8. Integrated Ecosystem Management in the Jordan Rift Valley 
  9. Local Development Project G9 
  10. Productivity & Vocational Training Department (PVTD) Development Project 
  11. Emergency Schools Construction Project (ESCP) 
  12. Capacity Building and Support of Local Initiatives (Arabic) 
  13. Unemployment Insurance Scheme Jordan/Syria 
  14. CCT to encourage girls' enrollment in the 4th grade through 9th grade 
  15. Yemen: Groundwater & Soil conservation Project 
  16. Yemen: Public Works Project 
  17. Palestine Cash Transfer Program 

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