DIWA Impact Evaluation Training and Matchmaking Workshop 2023

Please note that this is an invitation-only event.

Development Impact West Africa (DIWA) in collaboration with the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab Africa (J-PAL Africa) is pleased to announce its 2023 Impact Evaluation Training and Matchmaking Workshop. The 5-day intensive program will be held in Accra, Ghana from March 27 – 31, 2023. The purpose of this program is to develop a cadre of West African researchers with the requisite skills to generate credible demand-driven evidence to support policy decisions using rigorous impact evaluation methods.

The program will be held for researchers and policymakers in the sub-region. It will be hands-on with the aim to prepare participants to design impact evaluation studies of government priority interventions. There will be three days of intensive impact evaluation training and a two-day matchmaking workshop. West African researchers and CEGA and J-PAL faculty affiliates will align their interests and collaborate with the policymakers to form research teams.

After the training and matchmaking event, the research teams will develop a proposal from the interventions presented by the policymakers (or other highly demanded interventions). The proposals will be reviewed by a committee and successful ones will be considered for funding.