Journal of Development Effectiveness

2009 - 2025

Current editor(s): Howard White

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Volume 17, issue 1, 2025

Mixed-methods impact evaluation in international development practice: distinguishing between quant-led and qual-led models pp. 1-20

James Copestake

Does social protection reach those left behind: empirical evidence from Botswana using multidimensional poverty approaches pp. 21-35

Khaufelo Raymond Lekobane and Giel Ton

The long-term effect of a job training programme for youths in Peru pp. 36-49

Rafael Novella, Juan José Díaz and David Rosas-Shady

Does livestock-crop diversification improve food and nutrition security? Evidence from Eastern Ethiopia pp. 50-70

Bekele Wegi Feyisa, George Mavrotas, Teshome Lejissa, Million Sileshi and Hans De Steur

Leveraging artificial intelligence and machine learning analytics for development effectiveness: a comprehensive approach to extract insights from project data pp. 71-100

Alessandra Garbero, Bia Carneiro, Giovanni Cerulli and Giuliano Resce

Enhancing food security through keyhole gardening in Lesotho pp. 101-117

Oluwasola Ogunleye, Abiodun A. Ogundeji and Gideon Danso-Abbeam

More is more. Combined livelihood-education interventions and their effect on child labour in the agricultural sector pp. 118-142

Vera Chiodi and Verónica Escudero

Volume 16, issue 4, 2024

Self-selection versus population-based sampling for evaluation of an agronomy training program in Uganda pp. 375-385

Vivian Hoffmann, Miki Khanh Doan and Tomoko Harigaya

Impact of cash transfer on food accessibility and calorie-intake in Pakistan pp. 386-407

Shagufta Shabbar

How do patent subsidies drive SMEs to patent? Evidence from China pp. 408-427

Runhua Wang

Does the small business programme benefit self-employed workers? Evidence from Nicaragua pp. 428-447

Booyuel Kim, Rony Rodriguez-Ramirez and Hee-Seung Yang

A sky view evaluation of the impact of mini-grid projects on progress towards SDG7 pp. 448-467

Jean-Claude Berthelemy and Mathilde Maurel

Challenges to groundnut value chain development: lessons from an (attempted) experiment in Ghana pp. 468-484

Sean Posey, Nicholas Magnan, Ellen McCullough, Vivian Hoffmann, Nelson Opoku and Abdul-Hafiz Alidu

Aspiring to more? New evidence on the effect of light-touch aspirations interventions in rural Ethiopia pp. 485-498

Jessica Leight, Daniel Gilligan, Michael Mulford, Alemayehu Taffesse and Heleene Tambet

Volume 16, issue 3, 2024

Editorial – TREE special issue pp. 303-305

Chandan Jain, Marie Gaarder and Sudhanshu Handa

Towards improved and more transparent ethics in randomised controlled trials in development social science pp. 306-316

David K. Evans

Policy equipoise and interventional superiority pp. 317-331

Douglas MacKay

A checklist to guide sensitivity analyses and replications of impact evaluations pp. 332-348

Sridevi K. Prasad, Fiona Kastel, Suvarna Pande, Chenxiao Zhang and Douglas M. Glandon

Surveyor physical and emotional well-being: learning from Indian context pp. 349-362

Indira Patil, Chandan Jain, Rohan Shah and Saumya Mathur

Research transparency and reproducibility policies and programmes at the international initiative for impact evaluation pp. 363-373

Sean Grant and Sayak Khatua

Publisher’s Note pp. 374-374

The Editors

Volume 16, issue 2, 2024

Edutainment and the prevention of under-age marriages: The evaluation of a television series designed to promote positive role models in Bangladesh pp. 159-186

Muhammed Nazmul Islam, Atonu Rabbani, Animesh Talukder, Rubaiya Riya Siddiqua, Sanjana Nujhat, Mushfiqur Rahman, Antara Roy and Malabika Sarker

The trade-off between economic development and pandemic control: strategy identification and effect analysis pp. 187-205

Hui Ye, Yunshu Tang, Zhixiang Zhou and Huaqing Wu

Inadequate teacher content knowledge and what could be done about it: evidence from El Salvador pp. 206-229

Aymo Brunetti, Konstantin Büchel, Martina Jakob, Ben Jann and Daniel Steffen

Adolescent girls’ agency and their labour force participation: experimental evidence from rural Bangladesh pp. 230-245

Sajeda Amin and Momoe Makino

Effects of a large-scale participatory learning and action programme in women’s groups on health, nutrition, water, sanitation, and hygiene: a cluster-randomised controlled trial in Bihar, India pp. 246-263

Lisa Bogler, Christian Bommer, Cara Ebert, Abhijeet Kumar, Sv Subramanian, Malavika A. Subramanyam and Sebastian Vollmer

Technical efficiency and technology gap in Kenya’s tea industry: accounting for farm heterogeneity pp. 264-281

Vincent Ngeno

Grow the pie, or have it? Using machine learning to impact heterogeneity in the Ultra-poor graduation model pp. 282-301

Reajul Alam Chowdhury, Federico Ceballos-Sierra and Munshi Sulaiman

Volume 16, issue 1, 2024

Improving access and quality of civic infrastructure and amenities: how effective are the different interventions? A synthesis of the findings from meta analysis studies pp. 1-26

Ganesh Devkar, Venkata Santosh Kumar Delhi, Vinod Ramanarayanan, Suchismita Goswami and Thillai Rajan A

Does citizen engagement improve development outcomes? A realist-informed systematic review of participation and accountability mechanisms pp. 27-60

Ada Sonnenfeld, Jennifer Stevenson and Hugh Sharma Waddington

Community-based natural resource management: an effective tool to reduce poverty and inequality? pp. 61-76

Akhtaruzzaman Khan, Khan Jahirul Islam and A.B.M. Mahfuzul Haque

Implementation of graduation programs for alleviating rural poverty: an impact analysis in Paraguay pp. 77-100

Jorge Maldonado, John Gomez-Mahecha, Viviana León-Jurado, Laura Villa and Daniel A. Rodríguez

Supported cooperative groups and the economic performance of small farmers: evidence from Georgia pp. 101-117

Samuel Ahado, Jiri Hejkrlik, Tomas Ratinger and Tamila Arnania Kepuladze

Changing the logic in agricultural extension: evidence from a demand-driven extension programme in Kenya pp. 118-141

Juan D. Bonilla, Andrea Coombes, Dannie Romney and Paul C. Winters

How accurate are retrospective survey data? Evidence from rural Ethiopia pp. 142-158

Rob Fuller, Simone Lombardini and Cecilia Poggi

Volume 15, issue 4, 2023

The effect of the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act on the size of outstanding debts in rural India pp. 353-372

Sharvari Patwardhan and Luca Tasciotti

Experimental evidence from a fodder shrub promotional effort among dairy farmers in Uganda pp. 373-388

Karl Hughes, Judith Beatrice Auma Oduol, Hilda Kegode, Joan Kimaiyo and Kai Mausch

Are children substitutes for assets? Evidence from Bangladesh pp. 389-405

Ummul Ruthbah

Improving housing conditions: labelled loans in Kenya and Uganda pp. 406-437

Amreen Choda, Annekathrin Schoofs and Noel Verrinder

Does more schooling infrastructure affect literacy? pp. 438-452

Chitra Jogani

Do producer organisations promote environmental sustainability through organic soil investments? Evidence from Cameroon pp. 453-475

Martin Paul Jr Tabe-Ojong

Effectiveness of donor supported leadership development interventions intended to promote women’s leadership in health in low- and middle-income countries: a scoping review pp. 476-488

Sethunya Matenge, I Nyoman Sutarsa and Emily Lancsar

Volume 15, issue 3, 2023

Scaling education innovations in complex emergencies: a meta-evaluation of five process and three impact evaluations pp. 269-286

Thomas Hoop, Andrea Coombes, Hannah Ring, Kelsey Hunt, Victoria Rothbard and Chinmaya Holla

The effects of booster classes in protracted crisis settings: Evidence from Kenyan refugee camps pp. 287-301

Andrew Brudevold-Newman, Thomas Hoop, Chinmaya Holla, Darius Isaboke, Timothy Kinoti, Hannah Ring and Victoria Rothbard

Building community engagement and teacher support in education: qualitative findings from process evaluations in two exceptional settings pp. 302-319

Andrea Coombes and Oriana Ponta

Can’t Wait to Learn: A quasi-experimental mixed-methods evaluation of a digital game-based learning programme for out-of-school children in Sudan pp. 320-341

Felicity L Brown, Alawia I Farag, Faiza Hussein Abd Alla, Kate Radford, Laura Miller, Koen Neijenhuijs, Hester Stubbé, Thomas Hoop, Ahmed Abdullatif Abbadi, Jasmine S. Turner, Andrea Jetten and Mark J.D. Jordans

Employer attitudes towards hiring university-educated refugees: evidence from Rwanda pp. 342-352

Thomas Hoop, Andrea Coombes and Chinmaya Holla

Volume 15, issue 2, 2023

Editor’s note pp. 147-147

Emmanuel Jimenez

Impact evaluation and synthesis – how far are they being used in low- and middle-income countries? pp. 148-164

Richard Manning, Ian Goldman and Gonzalo Hernández Licona

Table banking plus certified organic agriculture: an integrated microfinance approach to sustainable livelihoods pp. 165-182

Vincent Canwat and Stephen Onakuse

Impact of the Child-optimized Financial Education (COFE) curriculum among savings group participants in Uganda: A cluster randomised controlled trial pp. 183-195

Eunsoo Timothy Kim, Yunji Zhou, Levicatus Mugenyi, Margaret Lillie, John Kato Bbosa, Collins Agaba, Andrew Mijumbi Ojok, John Hembling, Godfrey Kalemera Ruhangawebare, Carrie Miller, Thomas K. Shaw, Benjamin S. Allen, Joseph R. Egger, John A. Gallis and Joy Noel Baumgartner

The effectiveness of industrial policy in developing countries: causal evidence from Ethiopian manufacturing firms pp. 196-222

Tewodros Makonnen Gebrewolde and James Rockey

Improving microcredit and firm performance in Jamaica: a case study of the development bank of Jamaica pp. 223-239

Jacob Novignon

A social network analysis to determine success factors of food security innovations in Tanzania pp. 240-263

Ernestine Mefor, Barbara Schröter, Frieder Graef and Estephania Delgadillo

Book review for Ethics for Evaluation: Beyond ‘Doing No Harm’ to ‘Tackling Bad’ and ‘Doing Good’ pp. 264-268

Jennifer Sturdy

Volume 15, issue 1, 2023

Upping the game: adding costs to impacts an introduction to the special issue on costing in the field of development effectiveness pp. 1-4

Marie Gaarder and Johannes F. Linn

The State of Cost-Effectiveness Guidance: Ten Best Resources for CEA in Impact Evaluations pp. 5-16

Douglas Glandon, Sam Fishman, Caitlin Tulloch, Radhika Bhula, Grace Morgan, Shahana Hirji and Liz Brown

Cost-effectiveness analysis and joint public production of outputs for development: a preliminary framework pp. 17-30

Arnab Acharya, Douglas Glandon, Jane Hammaker and Edoardo Masset

Facilitating real-time cost collection and evaluating cost-effectiveness in a multi-armed study with government partners in Ghana pp. 31-42

Shahana Hirji, Bethany Park, Edward Tsinigo, Sabrin Beg, Anne Fitzpatrick and Adrienne Lucas

Harnessing cost data to improve early grade reading: cost evidence from a large-scale literacy initiative in Pakistan pp. 43-76

Erin Byrne, Caitlin Tulloch, Naeem Sohail and Silvia Diazgranados Ferráns

Infections averted by a comprehensive HIV prevention intervention and its cost-effectiveness: a prospective cohort study of persons who inject drugs in Delhi, India pp. 77-90

Lopamudra Ray Saraswati, Aparajita Dasgupta, Indrani Gupta, Julie Pulerwitz and Avina Sarna

Benefit-cost analysis of iron fortification of rice in India: modelling potential economic gains from improving haemoglobin and averting anaemia pp. 91-110

Lubina Fatimah Qureshy, Harold Alderman and Navneet Manchanda

Cost and cost-efficiency of unconditional cash transfers in Tahoua, Niger pp. 111-123

Lani Trenouth, Victoria L. Sibson, Carlos S. Grijalva-Eternod, Kate Golden and Chloe Puett

Evaluating spillovers and cost-effectiveness of complementary agricultural and social protection interventions: evidence from Lesotho pp. 124-144

Silvio Daidone, Justin Kagin, Noemi Pace, Ervin Prifti and J.Edward Taylor

Reviewer Summary for Journal of Development Effectiveness pp. 145-146

The Editors