The annual Indicators of School Crime and Safety report, co-produced by AIR, was released today by the National Center for Education Statistics and the Bureau of Justice Statistics. The report presents the most current data on crime and safety at schools and on college campuses from the perspectives of students, ...
In 2011, Zambia’s Ministry of Community Development, Women and Child Health (MCDMCH) began implementing the Multiple Categorical cash transfer program in two districts. An impact evaluation with experimental design accompanied the program in order to learn its effects on recipients and provide evidence for making decisions about the future of ...
In 2010, Zambia’s Ministry of Community Development and Social Services began implementing the Child Grant cash transfer program in three districts. An impact evaluation with experimental design accompanied the program in order to learn its effects on recipients and provide evidence for making decisions about the future of the program. ...
Programs designed to combat child labor store information on the social and economic services they provide their participants and beneficiaries. As part of a series of impact evaluations sponsored by the U.S. Department of Labor’s Bureau of International Labor Affairs, IMPAQ conducted five randomized controlled trial evaluations of programs to ...
IMPAQ conducted randomized controlled trial (RCT) impact evaluations to examine the effects of interventions aimed at combating child labor in Costa Rica, Ecuador, India, Malawi, and Rwanda. (IMPAQ was acquired by AIR in 2020.)
Aid agencies spend over $800 million a year on education programs increasing the demands for condoms for the prevention of HIV and other sexually transmitted infections by promoting and teaching their proper use. Yet condom use is very low in many parts of the developing world, especially in rural areas. ...
Smallholder farmers rely on crops for income and food security, but their ability to generate income and maintain food security is threatened by a number of factors. Kenya’s Plantwise program is a global initiative that provides smallholder farmers with vital information on the maintenance of crop health and environmentally sustainable ...
Ensuring medicines and other essential health commodities are available to patients when and where they need them is a key concern in Kenya. The health supply chain must be unfailing to the last mile and must demonstrate accountability and transparency given the high volume and value of those commodities. In ...
A two-year randomized control trial evaluating Zambia's Child Grant social cash transfer program found dramatic improvements in the amount of food and clothing going to infants and young children in high poverty families, and a 50 percent increase in the total value of crops produced by ...
In resource-limited settings such as Southern Africa, malnutrition and infectious diseases need to be an integral part of thinking about early childhood interventions. AIR conducted a cluster-randomized trial to test the feasibility and preliminary impact of a package of community-based early childhood services in a rural area of Zambia. ...