Spotlight on Cash Benchmarking: Key Lessons from the Development Impact Lab - How useful is a cash benchmark for understanding the

The studies informed a 2022 panel for USAID that explored worked to advance the value and limitations of cash benchmarking, along with salient lessons from the international development portfolio of evaluations and priorities for future work. [...] LIBERIA MALAWI RWANDA REPUBLIC OF The Lab was co-managed THE CONGO by the Blum Center for Developing Economies and the Center for Effective Global Action (CEGA) and managed close partnerships with IN PARTNERSHIP WITH a wide range of research UC Berkeley, UC Santa Cruz, UC San Diego, Georgetown institutions, including University, the Indian School of Business, and Tufts University, Makerere Univers. [...] In practice, the evidence would inform a profile of what to expect from a given The Development Impact Lab was funded by the type and size of cash transfer based on particular development U. [...] DIL was co-managed by the Center for Effective as a benchmark for traditional aid and inform funding and Global Action (CEGA) and the Blum Center for programming decisions, and its reliability would only improve Developing Economies at UC Berkeley, and funded as the evidence base grows. [...] group, these are the outcomes we could expect if we did cash transfers.’” Notably, reliable benchmarks mitigate the need for ABOUT THE BLUM CENTER FOR additional, expensive, randomized controlled trials directly DEVELOPING ECONOMIES comparing cash and development programming The Blum Center for Developing Economies leverages the talent, enthusiasm, and energy of 3.