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Freeze warns that exclusive emphasis on trials can exclude qualitative knowledge and institutional questions.

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Kent FreezeProgram Officer · Gates FoundationSpeaking in a personal capacityLinkedIn ↗
Lindsey MooreCEO & Founder · DevelopMetricsLinkedIn ↗
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Freeze warns that exclusive emphasis on trials can exclude qualitative knowledge and institutional questions.

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Attributed contributors: Kent Freeze; Lindsey Moore. “Freeze warns that exclusive emphasis on trials can exclude qualitative knowledge and institutional questions..” Advanced Solutions for Development Delivery. ECOSYSTEM Summit, Barcelona, 16 September 2026. Session time 29:07–30:53. https://cs-ecosystem.commonshare.workers.dev/evidence/E-5260fa62f5dd

Interpretation and context.

Analyst synthesis. The recording establishes that a claim was made. It does not independently establish the claimed effect.

methodological qualification

Freeze warns that exclusive emphasis on trials can exclude qualitative knowledge and institutional questions.

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Kent FreezeProgram Officer · Gates FoundationSpeaking in a personal capacityLinkedIn ↗
Lindsey MooreCEO & Founder · DevelopMetricsLinkedIn ↗

Proposed mechanism: Use methods appropriate to questions about governance and civil society.

Limit: Explicitly values RCTs for suitable questions; not a rejection of experimental evidence.

evaluationlocal knowledgecontextual adaptation

Where it connects.

Credible judgement requires methods and context appropriate to the question, with failure and missing voices visible.

The corpus contains studies, practitioner accounts, demonstrations, proposals and questions. These establish different things. Local knowledge and negative cases can reveal what a generic measure misses.

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