Estelle Raimondo

Instructor

Program Manager, Methods Advisory Unit at the World Bank’s Independent Evaluation Group

Dr. Estelle Raimondo is a Program Manager and Methods Advisor at the World Bank’s Independent Evaluation Group, where she leads evaluations and advises and trains teams on a wide range of evaluation methodologies. With ten+ years of experience in evaluation and evaluation research, she has been an instructor for the International Program for Development Evaluation Training (IPDET) since 2016. Her research has been published in several internationally peer-reviewed journals. Her first book is Dealing With Complexity in Development Evaluation: A Practical Approach (2015, with Michael Bamberger and Jos Vaessen). She received her PhD in evaluation research from the George Washington University.

Courses and workshops

I-d: Theory-based Causal Analysis: the Basics of Process Tracing and QCA

This workshop covers the following topics: review of various causal theories and their affiliated theory-based evaluation methods; fundamentals of designing a theory-based case-based causal analysis; applications using within case causal analysis such as Process Tracing; and applications to enhance generalizability of causal claims through cross-case causal analysis (including brief introduction of QCA).

Instructor(s)Estelle Raimondo

Recommended forEvaluators, Researchers

Levelintermediate to advanced