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Using results
Using Data to Inform Education Programming in Peru During COVID-19

Peru’s Ministry of Education (Minedu) is using data to make informed decisions about how to deliver education during the pandemic. 

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Scaling effective solutions
Building More Effective Police Forces in Mexico

Security policymakers at the municipal and national levels in Mexico are incorporating recent evidence into their training strategies for

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Scaling effective solutions
Scaling Up Targeted Instruction in Ghana

The government of Ghana will be scaling up targeted instruction to 10,000 primary schools, reaching over two million students across the

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Using results
An Evidence-Based Approach to Increase Farmer Incomes

A new startup is scaling up a proven innovative approach that provides bridge loans and storage bags to farmers to increase incomes

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Using results
Using Evidence to Inform a Leadership and Social Entrepreneurship Training for Secondary School Students in Uganda

Educate! is using results to strengthen its model as it scales across sub-Saharan Africa.

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CREDIT: 
Anna Yalouris
Using results
Water Tanks for Healthier Livestock

A savings and loan cooperative scaled up a loan product that relaxed borrowing requirements and made it easier for dairy farmers to purchase a

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CREDIT: 
Eric Edmonds
Using results
Evidence-Informed Social Protection Programming in the Philippines

The Philippines Department of Labor and Employment used evidence to inform the design of a national program.

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Scaling effective solutions
Keeping Kids in School with Relevant Information in Peru

In Peru, IPA and J-PAL worked with researchers and the Ministry of Education to evaluate at scale two low-cost ways of providing relevant

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Scaling effective solutions
Improving School Maintenance with Text Message Alerts in Peru

The Peruvian government scaled up a text message campaign based on results that it helped more schools use funds appropriately and on time.

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Using results
Evidence-Informed Early Childhood Teacher Training in Ghana

Sabre Education used results to inform its program design.

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CREDIT: 
Paul Smith
Using results
Evidence on Microcredit: Rethinking Financial Tools for the Poor

USAID and microfinance institutions use recent evidence to shift from traditional microfinance to other approaches. 

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Scaling effective solutions
Networking to Improve Business Performance in China

A manager networking program was scaled up in Jiangxi Province in response to positive findings from an IPA-supported evaluation.

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Village Enterprise
Scaling effective solutions
Alleviating Poverty with an Integrated Microenterprise Program

Village Enterprise is scaling up to reach nearly 14,000 more households in Kenya and Uganda

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Scaling effective solutions
Teaching at the Level of the Child

Reorienting teaching to the level of the student is improving learning outcomes for over 50 million students in India and Africa.

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Scaling effective solutions
Improving Financial Behavior with a Tablet-Based App

The social enterprise Fundación Capital is scaling up an initiative that lets low-income people learn financial concepts at their own pace,

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Scaling effective solutions
Big Math: Improving Basic Math Skills in Paraguay

The government of Paraguay is scaling an interactive numeracy program for young children based on rigorous evidence it improved math scores.

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Living Goods agent Sauda Babirye provides health education, affordable products, and support for her community in Tula, a peri-urban slum in Kampala, Uganda.
CREDIT: 
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Scaling effective solutions
Reducing Child Mortality with Community Health Promoters in Uganda

Incentive-based community health worker model reaches millions.

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Scaling effective solutions
Using Mobile Technology to Fight Malaria

TextDirect is scaling-up the use of text message reminders to increase adherence to malaria medication. 

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Using results
Facilitating Payments for Education in the Philippines

PhilSmile scaled up a financial product that enables Filipinos working abroad to send money directly to children’s schools back home.

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CREDIT: 
Evidence Action
Scaling effective solutions
Improving Seasonal Income Security During the Lean Season in Bangladesh

A strategy to improve seasonal income security during the lean season will reach over 300,000 people in Bangladesh

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CREDIT: 
Alissa Fishbane
Scaling effective solutions
School-Based Deworming

Over 96 million children received deworming treatment in the 2014-2015 school year.

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Scaling effective solutions
Chlorine Dispensers for Safe Water

A low-cost technology for treating water is now used by 1.3 million people.

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CREDIT: 
Jhon Tairo
Scaling effective solutions
The Ultra Poor Graduation Approach

The proven success of the Graduation Approach has spurred governments and development agencies to expand the model to millions of people.

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CREDIT: 
Will Boase
Using results
Free Malaria Bednets

Governments and organizations have reconsidered their policies to charge for bednets in recent years in response to evidence that even small

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Influencing global debates
Cash Transfers: Changing the Debate on Giving Cash to the Poor

The evidence on cash transfers, and the publicity around their success, has changed the way we think about giving cash to the poor and created

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Using results
Motivating Community Health Workers with Career Incentives

The World Health Organization and the Zambian government are using evidence from an IPA evaluation to improve health care delivery.

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Scaling effective solutions
Fingerprinting Scale-Up: Malawi Uses Evidence to Reduce Risky Borrowing

Findings influenced Malawi’s central bank to support the scale-up of a fingerprinting program.

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