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Partnership for Economic Inclusion Impact Evaluation Collaborative Workshop: Moving Economic Inclusion to Scale

May 23-26, 2022
Lisbon
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ľ¹ÏÓ°Ôº¡¯s (PEI) and the Development Impact Evaluation Department (DIME), have launched an Impact Evaluation Collaborative on Moving Economic Inclusion to Scale with the goal of informing an evidence-based scale-up of economic inclusion programming. Over a four-year period, the impact evaluation collaborative will seek to support country level operations to generate rigorous answers to several ongoing debates in economic inclusion programming and disseminate actionable recommendations to governments planning to expand their economic inclusion programs or implement related innovations. As part of the collaborative, a workplan based on three complementary lines of work will be implemented: (1) the development and support of a strategic portfolio of studies on impact evidence and cost effectiveness, (2) training and technical assistance for impact evaluation (IE) projects, and (3) the production of knowledge public goods and tools based on ongoing and completed evaluations.

As part of this collaboration, government-led economic inclusion programs are being supported to design and implement robust IEs by leading experts and researchers. More concretely, PEI & DIME co-hosted the PEI Impact Evaluation Workshop between May 23¨C26, 2022. A total of nine WB economic inclusion projects were selected though a very competitive process to participate in this event, comprising of Bank staff, relevant country counterparts and selected researchers and experts working in areas of the project expertise. The workshop started the process of designing a rigorous impact evaluation for the project. Moreover, it provided teams with tools regarding the latest and most relevant evidence in terms of economic inclusion, as well as cutting-edge impact evaluation methods and practices through expert¡¯s presentations, clinics, ignite sessions and matchmaking with international and local researchers. As next step, depending on available funding, PEI and DIME expect to support a number of projects to implement the designed country level impact studies over the coming four years.