Support Us

Costing Community of Practice 2023 Brown Bag Lunches

Seminar   |  past event  |  Jun 14 2023

The Costing Community of Practice (CCoP) Brown Bag Series invites stakeholders and a limited audience of between 20-50 individuals engaged in research and global development policy to hear presentations and discuss the latest research and innovations in the production and use of cost evidence.

Speakers can include:

  • Researchers producing rigorous cost evidence
  • Foundations and donor leaders integrating cost evidence into investment decisions
  • CCoP members presenting on their organization’s work around cost evidence
  • Policymakers interested in using cost evidence
  • Cost methods experts and educators
  • Bi-lateral or multilateral institutions

Format

The format of the Brown Bag Series is intended to facilitate an engaging and informal forum for the CCoP to engage with its community of partners and practitioners. Events will incorporate significant time for discussion to enable a smaller audience to provide feedback, ask questions, and discuss productive solutions and opportunities related to cost evidence.

Please email Liz Brown to be added to a brown bag lunch calendar invitation.

BBLs this spring

Date: Wednesday, April 19, 2023

Time: 8AM – 9AM PST

Liz Brown (CEGA) presented a costing pre-analysis plan – a new tool for integrating cost research with randomized evaluations of development interventions. CEGA’s new costing pre-analysis planning module is useful for integrating cost analysis with randomized evaluations. The tool specifies the key information that costing pre-analysis plans should report for purposes of transparency and rigor. The costing module can be integrated with pre-analysis plans for the impact evaluation or published as a standalone document for pre-registration.

 

Date: Wednesday, June 14, 2023

Time: 8AM – 9AM PST

Marcus Manuel from the Overseas Development Institute will share research findings from a two year program that identified examples of low cost and scalable interventions in the justice sector that donors could support. Marcus’ global costing for the sector in 2019 found that overseas aid supporting cost-effectiveness analysis in the justice sector lags the health sector by decades. See this blog describing current research and links below for more.

The Costing Community of Practice (CCoP)

The Costing Community of Practice (CCoP) is a CEGA coordinated effort to address barriers to generating more, and better cost evidence produced in conjunction with development impact evaluations. Its members include the International Initiative for Impact Evaluation (3ie), the International Rescue Committee (IRC), the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL), Innovations for Poverty Action (IPA), Evidence Action, the Strategic Impact Evaluation Fund (SIEF) at the World Bank, the Economic and Social Research Foundation (ESRF) in Tanzania, the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), and the Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC).

Share Now
Date & Time

This is a past event.

Related Events

Transparency

Costing Community of Practice 2021 Brown Bag Lunches

Seminar   |   past event  |  Jul 20 2021

The Costing Community of Practice (CCoP) Brown Bag Series invites stakeholders and a limited audience of between 20-50 individuals engaged in research and global development policy to hear presentations and discuss the latest research and innovations in the production and use of cost evidence. ...

Understanding the costs of a program or policy–in addition to its impacts–is critical to making informed decisions about how limited development resources are spent. Yet the supply of cost evidence in international development is low, of inferior quality, and lacking in transparency. In...

CEGA’s second annual "Cost-ober" series featured two webinars and a virtual workshop on cost analysis and its important role in impact evaluation research. The event was hosted by CEGA's Cost Transparency Initiative and associated Costing Community of Practice (CCoP). Please see below for...

View All Events

Copyright 2024. All Rights Reserved

Design & Dev by Wonderland Collective