Journal of Development Effectiveness

2009 - 2026

Current editor(s): Howard White

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Volume 18, issue 3, 2026

Editorial by Assistant Secretary-General for Peacebuilding and Peace Support, Ms. Elizabeth Spehar pp. 253-254

Elizabeth Spehar

Rigorously evaluating peacebuilding interventions: a brief review and introduction to the special issue pp. 255-268

Neil T. N. Ferguson, Paul Thissen, Bushra Hassan and Tilman Brück

Effects of promoting conflict management: evidence from Guatemala’s Polochic Valley pp. 269-299

Paulina Rebolledo Guzmán, Sebastian Martinez, Neil T. N. Ferguson, Lame Ungwang and Tilman Brück

Multilateral peacebuilding in practice: addressing farmer-herder disputes along the border of Sierra Leone and Guinea pp. 300-323

Paul Thissen, Taha Siddiqui, Devika Lakhote, Fiona Kastel, Shwetangi Sahu, Lame Ungwang, Theodora Benesch and Sara Ansari

Beyond homicide rates: evaluating peacebuilding through local systems strengthening in Mexico pp. 324-339

Shahriar Kibriya, Vivian Bronsoler and Elisa Lavore

Can peace radio shift social cohesion? Experimental evidence from a one-off narrative exposure in rural Sierra Leone pp. 340-377

Lame Ungwang, Theodora Benesch and Paul Thissen

Strategies to prevent violent conflict and atrocities: findings from a policy-scale evidence synthesis pp. 378-395

Suchi Kapoor Malhotra, Hugh Sharma Waddington and Howard White

Harmony on the airwaves? Evidence from peace radio at the Mali / Niger border pp. 396-414

Neil T.N. Ferguson, Luke Hosford, Theodora Benesch and Paulina Rebolledo Guzmán

Development of the resistance to recruitment (R2R) scale: a novel measure for children at risk of recruitment by armed forces and armed groups pp. 415-434

Alexandra Blackwell, Camilla Fabbri, Salimatou Traore, Clement Bicaba, Loubah Christian, Yvonne Agengo, Amber Peterman, Shoshanna L. Fine, Meg Stevenson and Kathryn Falb

Evaluating the peacebuilding effects of the Juba Peace Agreement on violence against civilians: evidence from an interrupted time series analysis pp. 435-451

Nahleen Zahra and Naureen Fatema

Volume 18, issue 2, 2026

Impacts of land certification on land rental markets and regional differential effects in Ethiopia pp. 119-136

Birhanu Addisu Adamie

The effects of increasing community participation on school management outcomes: evidence from India pp. 137-150

Natalia Cantet, Clara Delavallade, Alan Griffith, Zhe Liu and Rebecca Thornton

Do home garden interventions contribute to women’s empowerment? Evidence from Mali pp. 151-175

Marwan Benali, Pepijn Schreinemachers, Caroline Makamto Sobgui, Urbain Dembélé and Mahamadou Lamine Bagayoko

How investments in childcare quality affect centre survival: evidence from Bolivia pp. 176-200

Andrés Hojman, Julia Johannsen, Sebastian Martinez, Cecilia Vidal Fuertes and Anastasiya Yarygina

Gender disparities in valuing remote and hybrid work pp. 201-214

Ana Diaz Escobar, Luz Magdalena Salas, Claudia Piras and Agustina Suaya

Community lending with external capital: evidence from a randomised evaluation in Uganda pp. 215-227

Danice B. Guzman, Wyatt J. Brooks, Aloysius Byaruhanga, Joseph Kaboski, Marie Nakitende, Juliet Nambuubi, Jackline Oluoch-Aridi and Francis Ssekijjo

Better together? The effects of integrated social services for women pp. 228-252

M. Bustelo, S. Martinez, M. Pérez and J. Rodríguez

Volume 18, issue 1, 2026

The impact of credit and savings interventions on women’s economic empowerment and agency: a meta-regression analysis pp. 1-27

Maren Duvendack, Maria Daniela Anda Leon and Joanna Filopoulos

The education gradients in adult female obesity: causal evidence from two African countries pp. 28-46

Averi Chakrabarti and Naveen Sunder

‘Get three for the price of one’: evaluating the cost-effectiveness of multi-outcome interventions pp. 47-62

Hernando Grueso, Chris Desmond, William E. Rudgard, Sopuruchukwu Obiesie and Lucie Cluver

Beyond attendance: gendered impacts of a cash transfer for education and the unpaid care burden in rural Morocco pp. 63-85

Luca Maria Pesando

The Impact of Conditional Cash transfers on labour supply: new evidence from Brazil’s Bolsa Familia pp. 86-103

Vinicius Gonçalves Vidigal

Using full matching to measure the marginal benefit of bicycles in a multifaceted development programme pp. 104-118

Ardyn Nordstrom, Zachary Robb and Christopher Cotton

Volume 17, issue 4, 2025

Impact of internship programs offered by public employment service on labour market indicators in sub-Saharan Africa pp. 429-449

Carrel Fokou, Benjamin Fomba Kamga and Eric Djimeu Wouabe

Improving reading proficiency in early childhood education classrooms: evidence from Liberia pp. 450-466

Michael Sebele, Jeffery McManus, Mtise Mwanza, Leah Mwai and Mico Rudasingwa

Aggregation models in agricultural value chains of staple crops and their potential application for biofortification: a scoping review pp. 467-485

Panam Parikh, Nathaline Onek Aparo, Marcia D. de Barcellos, Annette M. Nyangaresi, Ishank M. Gorla, Bho Mudyahoto, Valerie M. Friesen and Hans De Steur

Social housing and crime reduction: evidence from Malaysia’s People’s Housing Project pp. 486-504

Izzat Hassan Bin Halim

Country selectivity: project-level evidence on need and effectiveness pp. 505-522

Jake Grover

Conditional cash transfers: effects on labour market outcomes and household financial well-being in Kazakhstan pp. 523-542

Kairat Umargaliyev

The mitigation effects of irrigation rehabilitation on climate variability and water scarcity: evidence from a randomised experiment in the Philippines pp. 543-558

Angelica Maddawin and Kazushi Takahashi

Volume 17, issue 3, 2025

Subsidized loans and firms’ employment outcomes: evidence from a province in Iran pp. 297-317

Javad Nosratabadi

Impact of access to electricity on the well-being of rural households in Senegal pp. 318-341

Kadoukpè Gildas Magbondé, Djiby Thiam and Natascha Wagner

The power of narratives: edutainment’s impact on knowledge and behaviour change in faecal sludge management in Urban India pp. 342-361

Varinder Kaur Gambhir, Sonal Tickoo Chaudhuri, Pratima Singh, Narendra Bhalla, Anna Godfrey, Radharani Mitra, Tanvi Nagpal and Francis Rathinam

Improved access to safe water: effects on adult health and time allocation in rural Zambia pp. 362-381

Yasuharu Shimamura, Satoshi Shimizutani, Shimpei Taguchi and Hiroyuki Yamada

The effects of development assistance on sexual and reproductive health services in low- and lower-middle-income countries: a cross-country panel data analysis pp. 382-396

Björn Ekman, Jesper Sundewall and Jessy Schmit

The persistent effects of school meals on multidimensional human capital: evidence from rural China pp. 397-415

Jingru Ren and Yanran Zhou

Population aging, pensions, and vulnerability to multidimensional poverty pp. 416-428

Lijin Liu

Volume 17, issue 2, 2025

A booster to conditional cash transfer programme: experimental evidence on financial inclusion and livelihood enhancement project pp. 143-160

Ayako Matsuda, Keitaro Aoyagi, Takako Mochizuki and Miki Uematsu

Hospital construction and emergency waiting time: evidence from Nicaragua pp. 161-177

Sarah Frohnweiler, Esther Heesemann, Marcello Perez-Alvarez, Manuel Santos Silva and Sebastian Vollmer

Using social media for agricultural information dissemination: the role of informant-recipient homogeneity pp. 178-205

Ryo Takahashi, Yasuyuki Todo, Yu Ri Kim, Yuzuka Kashiwagi and Denu Tsegaye

Rural–urban analysis of parental time poverty and child over-nutrition in ghana pp. 206-230

Edward Martey, Prince M. Etwire, Daniel Adu Ankrah and John K.M Kuwornu

The impact of savings-led microfinance on the lives of refugees pp. 231-256

Stephen DeLoach and Alexa Rasmussen

Addressing selection bias while estimating aggregate development effectiveness: can we obtain externally valid estimates at portfolio level? pp. 257-276

Alessandra Garbero and Elena Stanghellini

Comprehensive social protection programming: what is the potential for improving sanitation outcomes? pp. 277-295

Keetie Roelen and Karol Rodriguez

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 Jose Diaz 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