Malnutrition is one of the most serious global health problems. Advancing the knowledge base about the effects of nutrition and early childhood development programs on nutrition outcomes is particularly important in Bangladesh. AIR is evaluating a large-scale nutrition program and a pilot program to combat malnutrition in the country.
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The Multiple Category Transfer Grant program (MCTG) in Zambia provides grants directly to poor, labor constrained households, empowering families to decide how best to meet their needs.
AIR's Commitment for Quality Education for More Children in Haiti is to improve access to quality education through donor funded activities and to leverage additional resources to maximize the impact of education reform efforts.
Teachers are a critical resource for children in refugee and emergency settings. This article explores field research conducted in Algeria and Ethiopia, finding that cost-effective policies and technical responses that begin to address teacher retention challenges will affect student achievement, reinvigorate teaching forces, and attract new teachers to serve ...
Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan are bringing about a paradigm shift in what it means to be a reader, and in how education systems must be restructured to support children’s acquisition of comprehension and critical reading skills. AIR is providing the Ministry of Education in each country with a set of measurable, ...
With a new round of COVID-19 relief funds headed to states and districts nationwide, education leaders have a rare opportunity to make strategic and comprehensive investments in the teacher workforce.
USAID's Partnership for Resilience and Economic Growth brought together humanitarian and development partners to build resilience among Kenya’s vulnerable pastoralist communities in the country’s arid and semi-arid lands. PREG focused on nine vulnerable and high-risk areas and works with the Government of Kenya at both national and county levels to ...
A multidisciplinary team of experts from the American Institutes for Research (AIR) will participate in the 2023 What Works Global Summit (WWGS) from October 18–20 in Ottawa, Canada. This year’s conference theme, Evidence for Global Challenges, aligns closely with AIR’s commitment to generating evidence that can be used by global ...
In a webinar on February 28, 2023, AIR presented new data across case studies, including the key institutional, political, financial, and sociocultural factors affecting the inclusion of displaced children into national education systems.