To promote the use of evidence on the effectiveness of different public policies CONEVAL (the National Council for the Evaluation of Social Development Policy, Mexico) developed a strategy to share relevant evidence for public policy in a friendly way, especially for policy makers. The purpose is summarizing available evidence from impact evaluation through accessible tools to inform the decision-making process.
In this email we have attached two Excel files written in Spanish:
The first file contains an impact evaluation search regarding interventions, policies and programs focused on food security in Latin America. It has two sheets, one called “IE Codebook” that includes the 72 impact evaluations found. The other one called “Evidence Gap Map” classifies the evaluations compiled during the search. The columns show the food security dimensions (availability, Access and use) and the rows, the intervention types (Indirect or Direct). Each cell contains a number representing the evaluations found, matching those categories. Also, these cells have a comment specifying the evaluations considered.
The second file consists in a synthesis of evidence that results from the search of studies regarding food security. This search was made by the combination of key words in both languages: Spanish and English separately. This file has 4 sheets: “base de datos”, “Tabla A1.1”, “Tabla A1.2” and “Resumen”. The first sheet (“base de datos”) contains all the documents found during the search, as well as their details. The studies considered are highlighted in blue. The second and third sheets (“Tabla A1.1” and “Tabla A1.2”) include the results of the key words combination search for both languages. The last sheet (“Resumen”) is an abstract of the selected studies and their main findings.
RE: What works in improving food security and nutrition in very poor communities?
Dear Emile,
To promote the use of evidence on the effectiveness of different public policies CONEVAL (the National Council for the Evaluation of Social Development Policy, Mexico) developed a strategy to share relevant evidence for public policy in a friendly way, especially for policy makers. The purpose is summarizing available evidence from impact evaluation through accessible tools to inform the decision-making process.
In this email we have attached two Excel files written in Spanish:
1. REM_CONEVAL_Food Security https://dgroups.org/?0mb4xzf0
2. Food Security Evidence https://dgroups.org/?0mb4xzf0
The first file contains an impact evaluation search regarding interventions, policies and programs focused on food security in Latin America. It has two sheets, one called “IE Codebook” that includes the 72 impact evaluations found. The other one called “Evidence Gap Map” classifies the evaluations compiled during the search. The columns show the food security dimensions (availability, Access and use) and the rows, the intervention types (Indirect or Direct). Each cell contains a number representing the evaluations found, matching those categories. Also, these cells have a comment specifying the evaluations considered.
The second file consists in a synthesis of evidence that results from the search of studies regarding food security. This search was made by the combination of key words in both languages: Spanish and English separately. This file has 4 sheets: “base de datos”, “Tabla A1.1”, “Tabla A1.2” and “Resumen”. The first sheet (“base de datos”) contains all the documents found during the search, as well as their details. The studies considered are highlighted in blue. The second and third sheets (“Tabla A1.1” and “Tabla A1.2”) include the results of the key words combination search for both languages. The last sheet (“Resumen”) is an abstract of the selected studies and their main findings.
I hope this information will be useful for you.
Thania de la Garza Navarrete
Mexico