Can Rigorous Impact Evaluations Improve Humanitarian Assistance?

Each year billions of US-dollars of humanitarian assistance are mobilised in response to man-made emergencies and natural disasters. Yet, rigorous evidence for how best to intervene remains scant. This dearth reflects that rigorous impact evaluations of humanitarian assistance pose major methodologi...

Full description

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors:	Puri, Jyotsna, Aladysheva, Anastasia, Iversen, Vegard, Ghorpade, Yashodhan, Bruck, Tilman
Format:	Journal Article
Published:	Taylor and Francis 2017
Subjects:	IMPACT EVALUATION METHODOLOGY RESEARCH DESIGN STATISTICS HUMANITARIAN ASSISTANCE DISASTER CONFLICT VIOLENCE RECONSTRUCTION AID DEVELOPMENT
Online Access:	http://hdl.handle.net/10986/28630

id	okr-10986-28630
recordtype	oai_dc
spelling	okr-10986-286302021-05-25T10:54:36Z Can Rigorous Impact Evaluations Improve Humanitarian Assistance? Puri, Jyotsna Aladysheva, Anastasia Iversen, Vegard Ghorpade, Yashodhan Bruck, Tilman IMPACT EVALUATION METHODOLOGY RESEARCH DESIGN STATISTICS HUMANITARIAN ASSISTANCE DISASTER CONFLICT VIOLENCE RECONSTRUCTION AID DEVELOPMENT Each year billions of US-dollars of humanitarian assistance are mobilised in response to man-made emergencies and natural disasters. Yet, rigorous evidence for how best to intervene remains scant. This dearth reflects that rigorous impact evaluations of humanitarian assistance pose major methodological, practical and ethical challenges. While theory-based impact evaluations can crucially inform humanitarian programming, popular methods, such as orthodox RCTs, are less suitable. Instead, factorial designs and quasi-experimental designs can be ethical and robust, answering questions about how to improve the delivery of assistance. We argue that it helps to be prepared, planning impact evaluations before the onset of emergencies. 2017-11-02T21:29:22Z 2017-11-02T21:29:22Z 2017-10-24 Journal Article Journal of Development Effectiveness 1943-9342 http://hdl.handle.net/10986/28630 CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/igo World Bank Taylor and Francis Publications & Research :: Journal Article Publications & Research
repository_type	Digital Repository
institution_category	Foreign Institution
institution	Digital Repositories
building	World Bank Open Knowledge Repository
collection	World Bank
topic	IMPACT EVALUATION METHODOLOGY RESEARCH DESIGN STATISTICS HUMANITARIAN ASSISTANCE DISASTER CONFLICT VIOLENCE RECONSTRUCTION AID DEVELOPMENT
spellingShingle	IMPACT EVALUATION METHODOLOGY RESEARCH DESIGN STATISTICS HUMANITARIAN ASSISTANCE DISASTER CONFLICT VIOLENCE RECONSTRUCTION AID DEVELOPMENT Puri, Jyotsna Aladysheva, Anastasia Iversen, Vegard Ghorpade, Yashodhan Bruck, Tilman Can Rigorous Impact Evaluations Improve Humanitarian Assistance?
description	Each year billions of US-dollars of humanitarian assistance are mobilised in response to man-made emergencies and natural disasters. Yet, rigorous evidence for how best to intervene remains scant. This dearth reflects that rigorous impact evaluations of humanitarian assistance pose major methodological, practical and ethical challenges. While theory-based impact evaluations can crucially inform humanitarian programming, popular methods, such as orthodox RCTs, are less suitable. Instead, factorial designs and quasi-experimental designs can be ethical and robust, answering questions about how to improve the delivery of assistance. We argue that it helps to be prepared, planning impact evaluations before the onset of emergencies.
format	Journal Article
author	Puri, Jyotsna Aladysheva, Anastasia Iversen, Vegard Ghorpade, Yashodhan Bruck, Tilman
author_facet	Puri, Jyotsna Aladysheva, Anastasia Iversen, Vegard Ghorpade, Yashodhan Bruck, Tilman
author_sort	Puri, Jyotsna
title	Can Rigorous Impact Evaluations Improve Humanitarian Assistance?
title_short	Can Rigorous Impact Evaluations Improve Humanitarian Assistance?
title_full	Can Rigorous Impact Evaluations Improve Humanitarian Assistance?
title_fullStr	Can Rigorous Impact Evaluations Improve Humanitarian Assistance?
title_full_unstemmed	Can Rigorous Impact Evaluations Improve Humanitarian Assistance?
title_sort	can rigorous impact evaluations improve humanitarian assistance?
publisher	Taylor and Francis
publishDate	2017
url	http://hdl.handle.net/10986/28630
_version_	1764467325500653568

Can Rigorous Impact Evaluations Improve Humanitarian Assistance?

Similar Items