What the publication is
An independent evaluation of the African Development Bank's Selectivity Framework, covering 2013 to 2024. The evaluation draws on a large portfolio of operations, six country case studies, key informant interviews, and a benchmarking study against other multilateral development banks. Evidano is used to help analyze and validate this evidence.
How Evidano fit the workflow
- 1Collect the evidence base
Development literature, strategy documents, reports, and interview notes.
- 2AI assisted coding and extraction
Evidence is coded, extracted, and summarized, mapped against the evaluation questions.
- 3Human review and triangulation
Outputs are checked manually and cross-checked with traditional methods and expert analysis.
- 4Findings validated
Evidano is used to validate findings, trained for development literature.
“...an AI-powered evaluation tool... specifically trained to analyze and evaluate development literature.”
“AI will be used as a complementary tool, never a replacement for expert human judgment.”
AI insights are triangulated with traditional methods and expert analysis, with manual review of AI outputs before findings are validated.
Evidence is coded and mapped against the evaluation questions in a structured way, helping keep analysis consistent across sources.
The evaluation states AI tools operate offline or in house, data is anonymized, and informed consent is obtained before recording interviews.
About Evidano (previously AILYZE)
Evidano is AI-assisted qualitative data analysis software for interviews, focus groups, open-ended survey responses, and documents. It supports AI-assisted thematic analysis with your own or an AI-suggested codebook, transcription and translation in 100+ languages, clickable quotes and citations, and exportable visual reports. End-to-end encryption, no third-party data sharing, and your data is not used to train AI. From USD 50/month for unlimited analysis.
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Keep the judgment with you. Let Evidano do the heavy lifting on your interviews, focus groups, open-ended responses, and documents.
More case studies
UN & Global DevelopmentAI-assisted analysis vs manual coding. UNICEF ran both.
Same 160 evaluations, two methods. See where Evidano matched human analysts and where humans stayed essential.
UN & Global DevelopmentUN now using AI in evaluations
Inside a 2025 UN Development Programme evaluation: transparent, human-reviewed AI qualitative analysis.
UN & Global DevelopmentAI-assisted qualitative analysis, used in a published UNESCO synthesis
Evidano (previously AILYZE) supported and triangulated the analysis behind UNESCO's 2025 Synthesis of Evaluations. See how AI-assisted qualitative analysis is being used, and disclosed, in published research.
Related published evidence
Researcher interviews and published citations covering comparable studies.
- Published research2025
A UNESCO evaluation used Evidano to analyze its reports.
A UN evaluation office used Evidano to scan reports and apply its own coding schema, with researchers reviewing throughout.
230 museum-related records refined with Evidano
Evaluation of UNESCO’s Museums Programme, IOS Evaluation Office
- Published research2025
AI-assisted peer-reviewed policy brief
UK government–funded research across three countries, with AI support
3 countries studied (Sudan, Nigeria, Mali)
SPARC policy brief
Explore more evidence
Researcher interviews, the wording authors published when citing Evidano, and accuracy comparisons against manual coding.
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Research spotlights: researchers in their own words
Interviews with researchers at leading universities and institutes about how they actually used Evidano in work they went on to publish.
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How Evidano was used, in published methods sections
Verbatim excerpts from 20 published studies describing what Evidano did in their analysis — as a thought partner, a second coder, for initial coding, or for synthesis.
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Methodology guides and research writing
Practical guides to qualitative methods — thematic analysis, grounded theory, evidence synthesis and more — alongside the wider Evidano article library.
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Human vs AI: validated accuracy benchmarks
Three head-to-head comparisons against expert human analysis — 371 interview transcripts with Arizona State and Penn State, 298 evaluation reports for a UN evaluation group, and UNICEF’s manual-coding review.