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Mar
22
2023
10:00—11:00 AM EDT / 14:00-15:00 UTC
March 13, 2023
Health aid has contributed to historic gains in global health, but it can also be volatile, fragmented, and even displace domestic finances. What’s more, it can prevent countries from setting their own priorities, which is worsened by a lack of equitable aid exit strategy. Health financing requires ...
Dec
8
2022
3:00—4:30 PM Eastern Time (US & Canada)
November 28, 2022
US foreign aid agencies have long been at the forefront of evidence-based policymaking—tracking and measuring the impact of assistance programs on well-being and prosperity around the world. As part of the White House Year of Evidence for Action, the White House Office of Science and Technology Pol...
Sep
13
2022
12:00—1:15 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada)
September 07, 2022
In the Future of Development series, the Center for Global Development and the Georgetown University Initiative on Innovation, Development and Evaluation (gui2de) bring together development experts, scholars, and policymakers to address the big questions facing developing countries and help shape th...
Jun
8
2022
12:00—1:00 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada)
June 02, 2022
Developing countries have made tremendous progress in reducing poverty in the last fifty years, supported by international cooperation and more open societies and economies. However, in recent years, nationalist and populist movements as well as geopolitical fractures have hindered multilateralism, ...
Feb
1
2022
6:00—7:30 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada)
January 11, 2022
National government agencies can struggle to reach the periphery of their state, to places of poverty, international borders and geostrategic concerns, or they can direct their limited resources to security enforcement over service delivery. While the influence of local and district governments rema...
Jan
12
2022
12:30—2:00 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada)
January 07, 2022
Since 2014, Open Philanthropy has directed over $1.5 billion in grants, and plans to give an additional $1 billion during 2022 and 2023 to evidence-based charities working in global health and development. How should an evidence-minded donor pick among competing causes offering different kinds of be...
May
27
2021
10:00—11:00 AM Washington D.C Time
May 12, 2021
Through our work on the Donor Tracker, we know which donors are or are not making bold policy commitments and we know what they do and don’t fund. But how do we know which donors are complying with best practices to maximize the effectiveness of their official development assistance (ODA)?
Jul
8
2020
9:30—11:00 AM ET
June 23, 2020
In 2006, the Center for Global Development published a working group report titled “When Will We Ever Learn” that addressed the insufficient number of rigorous impact evaluations. A decade and a half later, the number of impact evaluations has risen (to over 500 per year), as have those of systemati...
Apr
16
2020
9:00—10:15 AM ET
April 13, 2020
The COVID-19 pandemic threatens lives, well-being, and economies in low- and middle-income countries. Yet many of the interventions implemented in high-income countries may be ineffective, impractical, or carry heavier consequences in LMIC contexts than they do elsewhere. In communities where most o...
Feb
5
2020
4:00—5:30 PM ET
January 21, 2020
Please join us to discuss the new IDRC book Scaling Impact: Innovation for the Public Good. Co-authors, Robert McLean and John Gargani, will discuss the new and practical approach to scaling the positive impacts of research and innovation outlined in the book, based on a review of over 200...