?
Hover over a bubble to see details with links to studies. Click on a link in the axes to see an explanation of the Intervention / Outcome. Select an area of the chart to zoom in. Toggle study categories on and off using the legend at the bottom of the chart. Export the chart using the menu button at the top right of the chart.
Individual and household
Examples include patient adherence to medication, researcher's academic output, household consumption.
Education and academia
Examples include test scores, numeracy levels, school attendance, and academic output.
Global health
Examples include adherence to treatment, risk of disease, health knowledge, and sexual health.
Sex-disaggregated or sex-specific
Studies that report effect sizes separately for women and men or evaluations of interventions that target only a single sex.
Agriculture and food security
Examples include agricultural production, crop prices, food security.
Organisational
Examples include firm-level profits, health facility's productivity, school-wide average test scores.
Community and societal
Examples include changes in regulation, commodity prices, village-wide disease prevalence..
Long-term impact
Studies that include a measurement of long-term outcomes, which are those that provide effect sizes for one or more time periods after the first end-line measurement.
Democracy, human rights and governance
Examples include electoral participation, election fairness, government accountability, human rights, and civic engagement.
Vulnerable or marginalised populations
Studies that report specific effect sizes for groups that are traditionally marginalised, in the minority, or vulnerable groups such as rural populations, conflict-afflicted populations, sexual minorities, indigenous groups, orphans and vulnerable children, and the disabled.
Environment and global climate change
Examples include changes in land regulation and recycling behaviour.
Water and sanitation
Examples include access to village water and sanitation resources.
Crises and conflict
Examples include disaster relief and post-conflict reconstruction.
Energy
Examples include household energy expenditures and energy/lighting usage.
Educational programmes to promote STEM
Educational programmes, scholarships, training, and in-kind donations at all non-tertiary educational levels intended to promote the science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) fields. Examples include pedagogical strategies used to enhance learning in the sciences in secondary schools.
Digital finance
Interventions that promote the use of mobile technologies for finance, such as mobile money payment applications.
Mobile health
The use of mobile and wireless devices to provide medical care.
Digital information services
Digital technology for information dissemination and the provision of individual services. The former refers interventions intended to smooth information asymmetry while the latter refers to interventions such as text messages to change or “nudge” behaviour. Services related to finance or health are excluded from this category.
Digital inclusion
Interventions that facilitate access to digital and data technologies, particularly – though not exclusively – for marginalised groups.
Technology-assisted learning
Interventions that use the internet or mobile devices to improve learning outcomes.
Fellowships and research grants
Monetary assistance for post-graduate level researchers to conduct existing or new research.
Access to capital
Interventions that facilitate access to capital for firms and entrepreneurs intended to spur innovation and improve technology.
Grants and subsidies
Non-debt instruments made to firms and entrepreneurs intended to spur innovation and improve technology.
Policy and regulation for digital services
Macro-level policies that facilitate access to or use of digital technologies, such as reduced taxes.
E-governance
Interventions that facilitate the provision of government services and communication between the public and government agencies using digital technology.
Digitising identity
Interventions that digitise identification systems such as fingerprinting and biometrics.
Digital literacy
Interventions that aim to improve a person’s ability to use the internet or mobile devices.
Digital infrastructure development
Interventions that facilitate access to digital technology or improve digital infrastructure.
Policy and regulation that affect innovation
Macro-level regulations that affect innovation, either positively or negatively, such as regional zones or trade barriers.
Networks and collaboration for innovation
Interventions that facilitate the development of networks, partnerships, and relationships between individuals or organisations for the purposes of information sharing, technology diffusion, network development, or creating credible and recognisable associations.
Capacity building for innovation
Interventions that promote institutional and human capacity building. These interventions foster a culture of innovation or innovation systems, particularly related to promoting science and technology.
Research exchanges and collaborations
Collaboration between researchers, educational institutions or other research-based entities, for the purposes of scientific research or capacity building.
Policy and regulation for scientific research
Macro-level regulations that facilitate research in science and technology, such as taxation or patent laws.
Data systems development
Interventions that use digital technology to improve data collection, management and use, such as electronic health record systems.
Innovative financing
The use of non-traditional, innovative financing instruments to complement traditional development assistance, such as results-based financing.
Global multi-stakeholder initiatives
Collaborations among three or more entities from the private, public, and civil society sectors intended to address complex development challenges in a non-traditional or innovative way.
Material resources for scientific research
Material resources provided to research institutions for the purpose of conducting research, such as lab equipment and other in-kind donations.
Technical assistance for scientific research
Assistance or training for researchers, often provided by an international NGO or university from a high income country.
Two entity partnerships
Interventions that are created or implemented by a partnership between a public aid agency and a philanthropic or private sector entity. Partners share a vision and values, and may often even jointly finance a project.
Click items in the legend to toggle the category off and on in the graph. High, Medium and Low Confidence and Protocol categories apply only to Systematic Reviews. High, Medium and Low Confidence refersto confidence in conclusions about effects. It indicates the overall rating given to a systematic review based on a careful appraisal of the methods applied in a systematic review, using a standardised checklist.
