Table 1 Searchable Impact Evaluations Databases and Systematic Reviews
Organization
International
Initiative for
Impact Evaluation:
Find Evidence
World Bank:
Development
Impact Evaluation
Initiative (DIME)
World Bank:
Poverty Impact
Evaluations
Database
Abdul Latif Jameel
Poverty Action
Lab: Evaluations
Innovations for
Poverty Action
(IPA): Search
Projects
# of
Items
789
443
443
372
160
# of
IE's
789
443
443
372
160
Searchable
by
keyword,
sector or
theme, country
or region,
Method of
Evaluation,
status or
timeline
keyword,
sector or
theme, country
or region,
Method of
Evaluation,
status or
timeline
keyword,
sector or
theme, country
or region,
Method of
Evaluation,
status or
timeline
keyword,
sector or
theme, country
or region,
Method of
Evaluation,
status or
timeline
keyword,
sector or
theme, country
or region,
Method of
Evaluation,
status or
timeline
NOT
Searchable
by
-
-
-
-
-
Inclusion
criteria?
Overlap
with IE
Databases
Comments on Criteria for
Inclusion
yes
DIME,
Poverty
Impact
Evaluations
Database,
JPAL, IPA,
CEGA, OECD
DAC DeREC
(i) must address attribution
question to establish causality, (ii)
clearly defined participants and
non-participants and sufficiently
large sample size, (iii) uses
experimental or quasiexperimental approaches, (iv)
control group must have
minimized chances of spillover
effects, confounding factors and
no selection bias, (v) studies need
to be at least partially focused on
developing countries
yes
Poverty
Impact
Evaluations
Database, 3ie
(i) includes world bank supported
interventions, (ii) must assess an
intervention outcome against a
counterfactual, (iii) can be
attributed through experimental
or non-experimental design
DIME, 3ie
(i) includes world bank supported
interventions, (ii) must assess an
intervention outcome against a
counterfactual, (iii) can be
attributed through experimental
or non-experimental design
3ie, IPA
(i) must be randomized
evaluations, (ii) must be from an
affiliate of poverty action lab
(there are 329 affiliates), (iii) need
to be focused on issues related to
poverty
JPAL, 3ie
(i) must be an IPA funded project;
(ii) must be project focused on
measuring impact of an
intervention, (iii) must be an RCT
yes
yes
yes
Organization
University of
California Center
for Effective Global
Action (CEGA):
Research Projects
Asian
Development
Bank: Independent
Evaluation's
Evaluation
Resources
Poverty and
Economic Policy
Research Network
(PEP): Project List
World Bank:
Independent
Evaluation Group's
"Impact
Evaluations"
Inter-American
Development
Bank: Office of
Evaluation and
Oversight
USAID:
Development
Experience
Clearinghouse
OECD
Development
Assistance
Committee:
Evaluation
Resource Center
(DEReC)
# of
Items
70
1412
172
9
43
184
1110
Inclusion
criteria?
Overlap
with IE
Databases
-
yes
3ie, Jpal, and
IPA
(i) must be a rigorous evaluation,
and (ii) must be from an affiliate
of CEGA (iii) must be related to
development programs
28
keyword,
sector or
theme, country
or region,
status or
timeline
method of
evaluation
no
OECD DAC
DeRec
APPEARS TO BE: (i) must be
related to AsDB project, (ii) Must
be done by the Evaluation Office.
15
keyword,
sector or
theme, country
or region
Method of
Evaluation,
status or
timeline
-
(i) must be a PEP project, (ii) can
be experimental or nonexperimental, (iii) needs have a
developing country focus
9
-
keyword, sector
or theme,
country or
region, Method
of Evaluation,
status or
timeline
yes
OECD DAC
DeRec
(i) Must be an ex-post impact
evaluation, systematic review of
Impact Evaluation Literature, or
assessments of the relevance and
effectiveness of IE work in the
World Bank Group.
3
keyword,
sector or
theme, country
or region,
status or
timeline
Method of
Evaluation
no
OECD DAC
DeRec
APPEARS TO BE: (i) must be an
evaluation related to an IDB
project, (ii) must be done by the
evaluation office of IDB.
5-10?
keyword,
status or
timeline
sector or theme,
country or
region, Method
of Evaluation
no
OECD DAC
DeRec
no
DIME,
Poverty
Impact
Evaluations
Databse,
AsDB, IDB,
AfDB, EBRD,
3ie
# of
IE's
Searchable
by
70
keyword,
sector or
theme, country
or region,
Method of
Evaluation,
status or
timeline
?
sector or
theme, country
or region
NOT
Searchable
by
keyword,
method of
evaluation,
status or
timeline
yes
Comments on Criteria for
Inclusion
APPEARS TO BE: (i) must be
conducted by an OECD DAC
member country or institution
Organization
African
Development
Bank: Evaluation
Reports
DFID: Evaluation
Reports
World Bank IE^2:
Impact Evaluations
in Education
Millennium
Challenge
Corporation
Millennium
Challenge
Corporation:
Evaluation Catalog
Youth
Employment
Inventory (YEI)
# of
Items
561
245
288
26
13
733
Inclusion
criteria?
Overlap
with IE
Databases
keyword,
method of
evaluation,
status or
timeline
no
OECD DAC
DeRec
-
keyword, sector
or theme,
country or
region, Method
of Evaluation,
status or
timeline
no
OECD DAC
DeRec
keyword,
sector or
theme, country
or region,
Method of
Evaluation,
status or
timeline
-
yes
26
-
keyword, sector
or theme,
country or
region, Method
of Evaluation,
status or
timeline
yes
13
keyword,
sector or
theme, country
or region,
Method of
Evaluation,
status or
timeline
yes
116
keyword,
sector or
theme, country
or region,
method of
evaluation,
status or
timeline,
yes
# of
IE's
Searchable
by
?
sector or
theme, country
or region
?
288
NOT
Searchable
by
Comments on Criteria for
Inclusion
APPEARS TO BE: (i) must be an
evaluation related to an AfDB
project, (ii) must be done by the
evaluation office of AfDB.
APPEARS TO BE: Evaluation must
pertain to youth employment
intervention/program
Note: We have chosen to exclude an Africa Evaluation Association Database, because it had not been updated since 2001.