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A look at return from forced migration at the 2025 Global Impact Evaluation Forum
18 December 2025 | This year’s Forum showcased the latest research on refugee and IDP returnees, pointing to how aid and policy affects the returning experience. Clever evaluation design helps to illuminate a phenomenon that is particularly pronounced in 2025, a year that has witnessed almost 7 million returnees globally.
In case you missed it: Migration research at CSAE 2025
9 April 2025 | The Centre for the Study of African Economies (CSAE) recently hosted their annual conference. Inspired by Lee Crawford’s round-up of the education papers presented, this blog rounds up the (excellent) migration-related papers.
Will Syrian Refugees Go 'Home'?: A Look at Some Experimental Evidence on Return Intentions
12 January 2025 | A month has passed since Assad fell from power and media reports on what this means for Syrian refugees have taken varied stances. What does the evidence say about Syrian refugees' intentions to return? This blog summarizes three recent papers with experimental approaches to tease out the determinants.
17 June 2024 | Preliminary findings from this experimental evaluation suggest that community-based targeting performs well against other (statistical) methods when identifying food insecure households in eastern DRC. It may serve as a tool for prioritization amidst the growing funding gaps in the humanitarian sector.
By Jonathan Garcia and Kristen McCollum with Felipe Alexander Dunsch, Andrea Guariso, Marcus Holmlund, Ghida Karbala, and Jonas L. Heirman
13 June 2024 | Over the past 30 years, impact evaluations have become a routinely utilized tool in the development sector. However, in the humanitarian sector, the concept is comparatively new.
This blog, co-published between the World Food Programme’s (WFP) Impact Evaluation Unit and the Humanitarian Assistance Evidence Cycle (HAEC), provides key tips on increasing the literacy within humanitarian implementation teams on impact evaluation methods with the support of USAID's Bureau for Humanitarian Assistance (BHA).
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How can we make good use of the limited resources available for humanitarian interventions, when needs are on the rise globally? In partnership with J-PAL’s developing workstream on the effectiveness of humanitarian interventions and the support of the UK's FCDO.
A conversation with ALNAP, the IRC, and the World Bank’s DIME held during the Humanitarian Networks and Partnerships Weeks (HNPW) in May 2021, highlighted three considerations for an impact evaluation agenda in humanitarian contexts.
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