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This is an incredibly earth-bound book about (results-based) impact evaluation. Titled Impact Evaluation in Practice and published by the World Bank, it is written by development practitioners – Paul J. Gertler, Sebastian Martinez, Patrick Premand, Laura B. Rawlings, and Christel M. J. Vermeersch – who have done tens of evaluations, who understand the difficulties of conducting good impact evaluations, and know ways of overcoming these difficulties. It is a “how to” book that is…

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An hour’s drive out of Dakar, Senegal, across a semiarid terrain brought us to Thies -the place we visited on March 24, 2010, as part of the third day of the AfCoP annual meeting. Under a huge shade tree in the hot afternoon sun, a local community gathered. A woman lead soloist brought us into song and dance as we approached. With a huge smile and a spell-binding voice, she sings and talks with her hands outstretched towards us – a call that binds us with the mothers. We are open to… Continue