Estelle Raimondo

Instructor

Senior Evaluation Officer at IEG/WBG

Estelle Raimondo (PhD) is a methods expert at the World Bank’s Independent Evaluation Group, where she leads evaluations and advises and trains teams on a wide range of methods. She is also a Professorial Lecturer at the George Washington University and a Methods advisor for Global Affairs Canada. She has trained evaluation professionals at IPDET, the AEA, EES, Norad and the Finnish Ministry of Foreign Affairs. 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; SAGE Publications). She is a Board member of the European Evaluation Society.

Courses and workshops

I-d: Theory-based causal Analysis: Process Tracing, QCA and Pattern-Matching in practice

This workshop covers the following topics: review of various causal theories and their affili-ated 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

LevelAdvanced