DIME Impact Evaluation Intensive Course in Mozambique Maputo, 27 June - 6 July 2023 37% average knowledge gains on impact 100 The first ever DIME course 100% evaluation topics on impact evaluation in 75 after Mozambique participants rated the course extremely relevant 33 students from Eduardo 50 Mondlane University 52% before 25 high performing students to 4 join the DIME Mozambique internship program 0 female participants IE Methods Field Research Stata 6 IE methods lectures 8 field research sessions 6 Stata labs Role of IE evidence in policy Data collection methods Intro to programming Intro to RCTs Survey instrument design Data management Non-experimental methods SurveyCTO programming Data cleaning and construction Inference, sampling, power Monitoring data quality Descriptive statistics Financed by the European Union Employment Roundtable Hands-on Stata and SurveyCTO programming labs UEM alumni from the World Bank and private sector shared Participants learned how to program a survey form using experiences on working hands-on with data and entering the SurveyCTO, as well as clean and analyze survey data in Stata labor market using DIME best practices "The course was very relevant "Interactions with the trainers "Training on data collection is as it helped open new horizons were spectacular, super humble highly relevant as data is collected on topics that are only spoken and attentive. As a student, the to take extremely important about in college. Now it's our course has more than given us a decisions. Performing good data responsibility to follow this step towards developing greater collections and good impact guidance and perfect the lessons learned." evaluations are fundamental " professional skills. MUITO OBRIGADA!" Group work case study challenge Course to return in 2024! Students put theory into practice and designed and analyzed DIME and UEM will host the course again next year, their own impact evaluations based on real DIME case studies exploring options to increase the course capacity, widen in Mozambique. Presentations were judged by a DIME panel access, and integrate with UEM economic research