Scope of the International Development Review Group
This page contains links to protocols, systematic reviews, and rigorous literature reviews that were published between 2011-19 within two work streams, the International Development Review Group and Health Systems. The context of these work streams is described below.
This International Development Review Group aims to conduct systematic reviews for international development. The scope of the group embraces all public policy sectors to provide evidence for national governments, international aid organisations, non-governmental organisations, regional and local policy-makers, practitioners, service users and the wider public.
Structure
This review group was established in response to the pilot programme of reviews funded by the UK Department for International Development. The goals of the pilot programme were to:
- Build support for the use of systematic reviews to increase evidence-informed decision making.
- Support the development of an institution to manage the creation and dissemination of systematic reviews as public goods.
- Make it easier for policy-makers and practitioners to develop evidence informed policy by using systematic reviews.
- Increase the value for money of policy by basing decisions on a rigorous understanding of what works.
More information about DFID’s support for systematic reviews
Peer review for many of the systematic reviews within this programme was coordinated by The International Initiative for Impact Evaluation (3ie). 3ie works to improve the lives of people in the developing world by supporting the production and use of evidence on what works, when, why and for how much. 3ie is a new initiative that responds to demands for better evidence, and will enhance development effectiveness by promoting better informed policies. 3ie finances high-quality impact evaluations and campaigns to inform better program and policy design in developing countries. 3ie Systematic Reviews examine the range of available evidence regarding a particular intervention.
International Initiative for Impact Evaluations (3ie)
Tel: + 44(0)20 7958 8351/8350
http://www.3ieimpact.org
Funding
The initial reviews were conducted with funding from the UK Department for International Development. However the views expressed by these reports do not necessarily reflect the department’s official policies.
Health systems
This stream of work aims to conduct systematic reviews on health systems research, particularly in the areas of:
The Alliance for Health Policy and Systems Research’s work to date on these areas has been largely through its Centre for Systematic Reviews, along with the identification of priority research questions and a priority setting exercise for each theme.
Structure
This work was established in response to the pilot programme of reviews funded by the Alliance for Health Policy and Systems Research at the World Health Organisation.
The Alliance has supported four systematic review centres since 2007. Technical support has been provided largely by three collaborating partners – the Norwegian Satellite of the Cochrane Effective Practice and Organization of Care (EPOC) Group, the EPPI Centre, Institute of Education, University of London, and the Effective Health Care Research Programme Consortium, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine.