Development Impact Evaluation (DIME) is a global program housed in the World Bank’s Development Research Group (DECRG). Its purpose is to increase the use of impact evaluation (IE) in the design and implementation of public policy and increase institutional capacity and motivation for evidence-based policy.
By doing so, DIME attempts to overcome the challenge to identify true cause-and-effect relations in policy programs. By linking researchers to policymakers and feeding results back into policies, DIME fosters systematic use of evidence which informs adoption, mid-course corrections, and scale-up of policies. DIME builds capacity while forming a wider community practice, through workshops and clinics with operational staff and government clients, joint research teams, active field coordination, as well as research products such as seminars, papers, and policy briefs.
Institutional Representative: Eric Mvukiyehe, Economist, DEC’s Development Impact Evaluation (DIME) Department
Eric Mvukiyehe is an Economist in DEC’s Development Impact Evaluation (DIME) Department, where leads a large portfolio of analytical work and impact evaluations in several critical areas, as part of the Evidence for Peace Program (E4P)—an innovative research and knowledge generation program on Fragility, Conflict and Violence (FCV) housed in the Research Department of the World Bank—he helped established and led since 2014. His own academic and policy research cuts across many topics and contexts, including: (i) reducing poverty and promoting socioeconomic welfare and subjective wellbeing for the poor and the youth; (ii) the political economy of conflict, peacebuilding and development in FCV settings; (iii) strengthening state capacity in FCV through reforming the civil service and traditional institutions; and (iv) women’s empowerment and social, political, and economic inclusion. Some of this work has been funded by the UK’s Department for International Development (DFID).
Previously, Eric worked in the Word Bank’s Gender Innovation Lab (GIL), where he provided support and technical assistance in the design and implementation of gender programs in Sub-Saharan Africa. He was also a Democracy Fellow with the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), where he worked on rigorous impact evaluations and analytical work of US government programs in the Democracy, Human Rights and Governance (DRG) sector. In addition, Eric has consulted for the United Nations, where he led impact evaluations of UN peacekeeping operations in Cote d’Ivoire and Liberia using local population surveys, as part of a broader evaluation of these operations’ performance by the UN Office of Internal Oversight Services (OIOS). He is also the World Bank’s Institutional Representative at the Experiments in Governance and Politics (EGAP), a global research, evaluation, and learning network that promotes rigorous knowledge accumulation, innovation, and evidence-based policy in various governance and accountability domains.
Eric holds a Ph.D. in Political Science from Columbia University. He has taught, given talks and written extensively on a wide-range of topics in the afore-mentioned areas. His research has been published in World Politics, World Development, Journal of Conflict Resolution, Journal of Peace Research and Comparative Political Studies.
Development Impact Evaluation (DIME) is a global program housed in the World Bank’s Development Research Group (DECRG). Its purpose is to increase the use of impact evaluation (IE) in the design and implementation of public policy and increase institutional capacity and motivation for evidence-based policy. By doing so, DIME attempts to overcome the challenge to identify true cause-and-effect relations in policy programs. By linking researchers to policymakers and feeding results back into policies, DIME fosters systematic use of evidence which informs adoption, mid-course corrections, and scale-up of policies. DIME builds capacity while forming a wider community practice, through workshops and…