Conference title: Pushing the frontiers of evaluation effectiveness and excellence

Date: 19-20 April

Location: Sheraton Hotel, New Delhi

The International Initiative for Impact Evaluation is celebrating its tenth birthday by hosting Delhi Evidence Week 2018. The conference is part of a five-day event dedicated to promoting conversations on increasing the production and use of high-quality evidence for informing policies and programmes to improve lives. The two-day conference on 19-20 April will focus on what the organisation has learned in supporting and producing effective and policy-relevant evidence that informs inclusive and equitable development. The sessions will focus on innovative approaches and methodologies in tackling development-related problems and the need for forging partnerships with governments for evidence-informed decision making. The conference is open to all.

Sessions of interest include:

19 April 

09:15-09:45 Keynote address: Mind, behaviour, and development: the critical role of evidence in context, by Varun Gauri, senior economist, development economics vice presidency, World Bank

10:15-11:45 Nudging and beyond: informing policy through behavioural science

16:00-17:30 Forging partnerships with government for evidence-informed decision making

20 April

12:00-13:30 The role of researchers in promoting evidence use

View the detailed agenda, with a complete list of speakers at the Delhi Evidence Week 2018 mini-site. You can follow the conversations across social media using the hashtag #3ieDEW2019

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