The credibility and impact of evidence for decision-making is greatly bolstered by the participation of local scholars, who are best placed—and most motivated—to identify and address development challenges in their own countries. Absent their voices, even the most rigorous research can lose relevance and fail to translate into policy action, inhibiting important development goals. CEGA’s Global Networks program invests in research capacity building that empowers LMIC scholars to become knowledge-generators in their home countries and regions. Through semester-long fellowships at UC Berkeley, scholars audit development economics courses, present their work at seminars, apply to competitive funding opportunities, receive faculty and peer mentorship, and network with faculty and students across the CEGA network. In addition, the Global Networks team organizes conferences to disseminate locally-generated research, connects fellows with policy makers and other partners, and hosts events for LMIC scholars to deliver and receive feedback on working papers. During the COVID-19 pandemic, Global Networks is expanding opportunities for LMIC scholars to engage remotely, including the CEGA Global Workshop.
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The BRAC-CEGA Learning Collaborative (BCLC) is a partnership designed to increase the capacity of emerging scholars within BRAC, the world’s largest NGO, to conduct rigorous program evaluation. The BCLC provides anchor funding for evaluations co-led by BRAC staff researchers, sponsors professional development fellowships for BRAC researchers, conducts matchmaking events, and provides executive education for BRAC program staff. To date, the BCLC has hosted 13 fellows and funded 4 large-scale evaluations...
The CEGA Fellowship program invests directly in cultivating the talents of junior African researchers by providing residential and non-residential impact evaluation fellowships. Since its inception in 2012, the CEGA fellowship program has trained 69 fellows across East and West Africa. Fellows access faculty and Ph.D. student mentors, research funding, and “catalyst” grants to support fellows to institutionalize their learnings when they return. The program further helps to disseminate research to policy-makers through annual evidence summits and government involvement in funded...
The Collaboration for Inclusive Development Research (CIDR) aims to systematically document the state of inclusion in global development research while assessing the potential benefits (and costs) of promising inclusion strategies. We will conduct advocacy and outreach activities to disseminate the analysis, and strategically build on our...
Development Impact West Africa (DIWA) is a partnership with the Center for Learning on Evaluation and Results (CLEAR) at the Ghana Institute of Management and Public Administration (GIMPA). The program connects West African researchers and policymakers with US academics to enhance the production and use of rigorous and transparent evidence for policy...
The East Africa Social Science Translation (EASST) Collaborative is a multi-institution research network that promotes rigorous evaluation of social and economic development programs in East Africa. EASST hosts 6-8 competitively selected fellows per year, offers competitive research grants to pairs of African and CEGA researchers, and provides fellows with training and policy grants to institutionalize rigorous evidence generation within universities and governments. Since its inception, EASST has trained 57 fellows from 9 countries, which is implemented under our CEGA Fellowship...
Remote Student Exchange (RSE) is a platform connecting students from low-and middle-income countries (LMICs) with professors around the world to participate in remote classes free of...
The Working Group in African Political Economy (WGAPE) convenes faculty, graduate students, and scholars from the Global South with deep field research experience in Africa to provide training in political economy methods. The group meets semi-annually to offer structured feedback on in-progress (“working”) research papers, foster new research collaborations, and deliver trainings in impact evaluation and research transparency for junior and LMCI...
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