EGAP: Experiments in Governance and Politics

See here: http://e-gap.org/design-registration/

Social Impact has just opened two full time positions for IE experts. See postings for impact evaluation advisor and program associate.

The Transparency and Accountability Initiative is pleased to announce a request for submissions by research or evaluation institutions or consortia to develop a rigorous multi‐year research proposal on the impact of Transparency and Accountability  interventions. The aim is to fill critical gaps in our knowledge about Transparency and Accountability interventions and further our common understanding of what works, why and in what circumstances? The research will be funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the United Kingdom Department for International Development, the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation and potentially others, under the
umbrella of the Transparency and Accountability Initiative.

See full RFP here

Here (and MIT page here)

Application Deadline: 10 October 2011

The Experiments in Governance and Politics Network (EGAP) is pleased to announce a call for up to 12 new members.

The group: EGAP is a network of scholars and practitioners who are engaged in the implementation or analysis of field and lab based experimental research on questions related to governance and politics in international development. The network is housed at the Center for Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law at Stanford, supported by the Hewlett Foundation, and includes over fifty members from thirty five universities and international organizations.

Meetings and Activities: The network meets twice a year to discuss new and ongoing research in this field. Other activities include establishing a peer review service for new experimental designs and a set of standards and protocols for work in this field. The first meeting of the group was held at Yale in April 2009 and subsequent meetings have been held at Columbia, Trinity College Dublin, NYU, and the World Bank. The next meeting will be held at MIT on 4-5 November 2011.

Application Process: The application process is open to researchers and practitioners who are engaged in the implementation, management, or analysis of experimental research on issues related to the interests of the network in the field of governance, politics, and international development. Applicants, be they researchers or research and evaluation officers, from international organizations that are applying these methods to understand the effects of their interventions are especially encouraged.

To apply please register your interest and describe your research interests here: http://web.mit.edu/cfotini/www/EGAP/application.html Closing date for applications is 10 October 2011. For more information please contact any of the members of the steering committee: Fotini Christia (cfotini@mit.edu), Nahomi Ichino (nichino@gov.harvard.edu) and Ghazala Mansuri (Gmansuri@worldbank.org)

The EGAP membership has endorsed a statement of research principles for conducting experimental work in the area of governance and politics.

EGAP 5 will be hosted by the World Bank, Washington DC. 27-28 May 2011.

The next EGAP meeting (EGAP 4) will be held at NYU on 8 October 2010. For more information see here.

July 2010: The World Bank in Indonesia seeks a qualified consultant to lead impact evaluations related to education policies and projects in Indonesia. From the job posting:

Overall, the consultant will lead or contribute to studies related to education policies and projects, mainly the ECED and BERMUTU impact evaluations, manage consultants contributing to these studies, liaise with the Government of Indonesia about impact evaluation design and results, and produce policy documents for Government and research audiences.

The full job posting can be found here. To apply, email Amanda Beatty at indonesia.education@gmail.com.