Global Alliance: Compelling Evidence and Impact Data - What do you use or quote?

One of the three major priority themes for the Global Alliance for Social and Behaviour Change - building informed and engaged societies is EVIDENCE and IMPACT. The mandate to the Alliance from the consultation phase was to identify, analyse, draw strategic conclusions and communicate the compelling data based argument for the effectiveness of our common field of work. The survey that follows, agreed by the Evidence and Impact cluster, is the important, first, short step in this strategy. 

 

All organisations in the Alliance have substantial experience in our common field of work. You will have generated and/or reviewed lots of evidence and impact data. We are asking you to share 3 to 5 highly compelling "pieces" of evidence and data that you have identified and used for your strategic development and/or arguing the effectiveness of your work. It can be from your own research or the research of others.

 

We are very aware that "impact' and "evidence" can be contextual - that they need to relate to particular development issues or geographic regions in order to make sense. But at this time we are simply asking for 3 to 5 of the pieces of research that rise to the top for you and your org when it comes to demonstrating impact on a development issue.  

 

Please note that this is an important first step. From your submissions we will develop an initial set of references (not attributed to any one organisation) along with an analysis of the data gathered.  That analysis will help us work out the best approach for the larger long-term work on the most compelling evidence and impact data. 

 

We need you to please complete below by June 20th, 2018 June 30th, 2018. This will allow us to feed any relevant data shared into the Policy Engagement work of the High Level Political Forum.

 

For full clarification here is an example that illustrates what we are seeking: 

 

Title of paper, publication, chapter or book: (example) Effects of Sesame Street: A meta-analysis of children's learning in 15 countries

Name of author(s) : (example) Marie-Louise Mares and Zhongdang Pan

Where is this published: (example) Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology - Volume 34, Issue 3, May–June 2013, Pages 140-151

URL (if available); (example) https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0193397313000026

Development Issue(s): (example) Education, Early Child Development

Strategic Approach: (example) Entertainment-Education

Compelling data extract and quote: (example) “Researchers found an overall effect size of 0.29. This translates into an 11.6 percentile gain (in terms of education). That is, an average child who does not watch Sesame Street is at the 50th percentile, whereas a child who watches is at the 62nd percentile.”

Research Methodology: (example) A meta-analysis of 24 studies of the effects of Sesame Street internationally.

 

Have you used this research in your work?: (example) Yes

 

Why have you found this research useful?: (a) at-scale, global work in different contexts (b) everyone knows Sesame (c) key development issue - Education (d) direct connection to impact (e) independent  academics undertook (f) reduces impact to one number (g) appears in a leading non-communication journal.

 

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