Wednesday June 15 (Day I)
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8:30 - 9:00AM
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Registration and coffee
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9:00 – 9:15AM
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Welcome and introduction
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Nancy Vandycke, Lead Economist, Transport and ICT GP, World Bank
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9:15-9:45 AM
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Big challenges facing the transportation sector in East Africa
Chair: Nancy Vandycke
Arianna Legovini, Manager, World Bank DIME
Kenya Ministry of Transport, Infrastructure, Housing and Urban Development representative (invited).
Duncan Kibogong, Kenya National Transport and Safety Authority.
Baher El-Hefnawi, Lead Transport Economist and Global Lead for Transport Corridors and Regional Integration, World Bank
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9:45-10:15 AM
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Introduction to DIME’s “ieConnect” transport and ICT impact evaluation portfolio
Arianna Legovini, manager, DIME, World Bank
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10:15-10:45
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The Transport and ICT Global Practice Vision for the Sustainable Mobility for all framework
Nancy Vandycke, Lead Economist, Transport and ICT GP, World Bank
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10:45 - 11:15 AM
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IE Methods Review (with application to transport)
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Kevin Croke, Economist, World Bank DIME
This session will be a basic IE review followed by IE design-related thoughts on the challenges faced by the initial EOI designs from the ieConnect window.
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11:15-11:30
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Coffee Break
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11:30 – 12:30 PM
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Strengthening Transport IE Designs (1): Evaluating Transport Corridors and BRTs
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Melanie Morten, Assistant Professor of Economics, Stanford University
This will be a detailed methodological presentation, using the Dar es Salaam BRT as a case study, which will focus on best practices for creating a counterfactual, and accounting for and modelling general equilibrium issues (i.e. displacement and selection/composition effects).
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12:30 – 1:30PM
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Lunch
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1:30-3:00 pm
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Strengthening Transport IE Designs (2): Adding Experiments to Transport Evaluations
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This session will discuss how and why to layer randomized experiments on top of an infrastructure investment to test mechanisms of impact and/or policy interventions that can magnify the benefits or alleviate the costs of large scale investments across the three program areas of urban mobility, transport corridors, and road safety.
Chair: Baher El-Hifnawi, Lead Transport Economist and Global Lead for Transport Corridors and Regional Integration, World Bank
Road safety and behavior change:
Syon Bhanot, Assistant Professor, Swarthmore College
· Integrating experiments into the “SmarTTranS” Nairobi matatu road safety project
Urban mobility:
Gharad Bryan, Assistant Professor of Economics, London School of Economics
· Integrating experiments into the Dar es Salaam BRT project
Arianna Legovini, Manager, World Bank DIME
· Reducing gender-based violence and harassment on public transport in Rio de Janeiro – a case of adaptive experimental design
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3:00-3:15 PM
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Coffee Break |
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3:15-5:00 PM
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Project Group Work
In this session, project teams will take stock of their current IE design, and discuss opportunities for strengthening it. Projects without an existing IE design will work to develop a design.
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Thursday June 16 (Day II)
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9:00 – 10:00 AM
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Developing a shared measurement and outcomes framework for transport impact evaluation(1): economic growth and road safety
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Chair: Kevin Croke
Julia Bird, postdoctoral research fellow, Oxford University
· Economic growth, measurement, and outcomes from transportation improvements: Capturing direct and indirect effects
Tawia Addo-Ashong, Senior Transport Specialist, World Bank
· Road safety theory, measurement and outcomes: the perspective from operations
Guadalupe Bedoya, economist, DIME World Bank
· Road safety measurement in the SmarTTranS project
A key goal of this workshop is to develop a shared understanding of the outcomes that should be captured in transport impact evaluations across the East Africa region, and to think about the data infrastructure that will be required to capture these outcomes. The focus of this session will be on proposing a common measurement and outcomes framework for IEs in each of these three areas. The goal is that projects across all three areas could agree on what final and intermediate outcomes (and covariates) they should all be measuring, and at what level of aggregation
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10:00-11:00 AM
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Transport corridors and impact evaluation
In this session, presenters will discuss forthcoming transport corridor projects with a focus on identifying opportunities for impact evaluations of the corridors and of complementary development interventions
Baher El-Hifnawi, World Bank, Lead Transport Economist and Global Lead for Transport Corridors and Regional Integration, World Bank
· The World Bank’s transport corridor program
Yonas Mchomvu/ Haileyesus Adamtei/ Stephen Muzira/Emmanuel Taban/James Markland/Zemedkun Tessema, World Bank Transport and ICT Global Practice
· Current and future transport corridor projects in Tanzania, Ethiopia, and Uganda
Mamo Esmelealem Mihretu, Senior Operations Officer, Trade and Competitiveness Global Practice, World Bank
· Trade and Competitiveness and Transport Corridors in Ethiopia
Arianna Legovini, manager, World Bank DIME
· The East African trade zone vision: Experimentation across sectors and across the region
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11:00 - 11:15AM
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Coffee Break |
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11:15 - 1:00PM
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New technology for data collection in transport impact evaluations (1)
Chair: Guadalupe Bedoya
Maria Jones, DIME, World Bank
· Using crowdsourcing to collect data in the Rwanda feeder roads project\ building experimentation into the Rwanda irrigation project
Priyanka deSouza (UNEP)
· Integrating air quality monitoring into transport impact evaluation
Sam Asher, postdoctoral fellow, Oxford University
· New ways of accessing administrative data to generate causal identification in transport evaluations
Tierra Bills, IBM Kenya
· Using sensors and apps to collect transportation data (road quality; aggressive driving) in Nairobi
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Building on the previous session on shared outcomes, this session will focus on the use of new technologies to collect data on outcomes of interest in transportation impact evaluations. A key question is the extent to which new technologies can enable sustained/routine data collection on these outcomes, outside of IE survey-based data collection efforts.
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1:00 – 2:00PM
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Lunch
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2:00 – 3:45PM
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Group work
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The focus of this group work session will be to continue the work on the overall IE design which was initiated on day 1, with additional focus on the outcomes that will be measured as part the impact evaluation, in light of the earlier discussion about common measurement and outcomes framework.
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3:45 - 4:00PM
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Coffee Break
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4:00-5:00 PM
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Developing a shared measurement and outcomes framework (2): urban environmental and climate change outcomes
Shomik Mehndiratta, Lead urban transport specialist, World Bank (via video/WebEx)
· Developing a conceptual framework for incorporating climate change outcomes in urban transportation impact evaluations
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