@smclare: I’m glad you liked the report :) I definitely hope it can be helpful to others, since alot of work went into it! If it can save others some time, that would be great!
I’ll check out the Marginal Revolution post on Millenium Villages and see if I can include a few sentences about that in the report.
As for TaRL Africa, alot of what they are doing is directly implementing TaRL in different African countries with partners and trying to ensure that the scale up there is a success. So I don’t think of it as being mainly advocacy. You’re right that there’s no guarantee that it will work. I think there is a tension between the donors’ goal of backing things that have been shown to work and having a long term and transformative impact, since the evidence on long term impacts is generally lacking (beyond say 7 years or so at most, in the case of the graduation approach). I tried to find a middle ground between their different goals. One of the reasons I included various charities in Table 1 was a recognition that different interpretations of their goals might lead to different recommendations.
@smclare: I’m glad you liked the report :) I definitely hope it can be helpful to others, since alot of work went into it! If it can save others some time, that would be great!
I’ll check out the Marginal Revolution post on Millenium Villages and see if I can include a few sentences about that in the report.
As for TaRL Africa, alot of what they are doing is directly implementing TaRL in different African countries with partners and trying to ensure that the scale up there is a success. So I don’t think of it as being mainly advocacy. You’re right that there’s no guarantee that it will work. I think there is a tension between the donors’ goal of backing things that have been shown to work and having a long term and transformative impact, since the evidence on long term impacts is generally lacking (beyond say 7 years or so at most, in the case of the graduation approach). I tried to find a middle ground between their different goals. One of the reasons I included various charities in Table 1 was a recognition that different interpretations of their goals might lead to different recommendations.