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Evidence for Development: Information to Improve Lives
Over $108 billion are invested every year in improving the lives of people in developing countries, yet these investments are often poorly planned, hastily implemented and abandoned without proper scrutiny. Evidence for Development (EvD) works from the premise that international development interventions must be measured with the same precision and level of detail as other investments. However, governments, donors and non profit organisations currently lack the practical financial and economic tools needed to design interventions, routinely measure the impact of policies and programmes and assess their return on investments. EvD was founded to resolve these problems and set new standards in the use and analysis of data in the development sector.
Evidence for Development: overview
EvD works to alleviate poverty by tackling long-standing shortcomings in the design of international development policy.
EvD has developed economic models and analytic tools that provide new insights into intricate and often fragile local economies. These can be used to detail, with precision, the risks behind each investment decision and development policy or programme and to measure the results of development efforts. The tools have been designed to achieve better returns on investments to reduce poverty; to predict and thereby to prevent economic disasters including famine; and to promote accountability by providing a more rigorous basis for evaluation.
EvD brings together world-class development expertise and state-of-the-art software technology. Our approaches and tools have been developed and extensively tested in field studies across sub Saharan Africa and in South Asia, dating from the early 1990s.
We work in close partnership with national and international agencies, NGOs, governments and private donors, to build analytical and fieldwork skills at local and national levels.
EvD also contributes to public debates, promoting dialogue among donors, development professionals and in the wider public arena, through extensive dissemination of the findings of our work. Evidence for Development is generously supported by Covington and Burling through pro bono legal services and by Lee Dicketts and Co through accountancy services. | 
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