Case Studies

CREDIT: Paul Smith Influencing global debates Microcredit: Evidence Changes the Debate on Finance for the Poor Evidence on the impacts of microcredit has changed the way the world thinks about financial services for the poor.	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.	CREDIT: 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
Scaling effective solutions Teaching at the Level of the Child Reorienting teaching to the level of the student is improving learning outcomes for over 47 million students.	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,	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.
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: Esther Havens/Living Goods Scaling effective solutions Reducing Child Mortality with Community Health Promoters in Uganda Incentive-based community health worker model reaches millions.	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.	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.
Migrants board a bus in Bangladesh 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	CREDIT: Alissa Fishbane Scaling effective solutions School-Based Deworming Over 96 million children received deworming treatment in the 2014-2015 school year.	Scaling effective solutions Chlorine Dispensers for Safe Water A low-cost technology for treating water is now used by 1.3 million people.
CREDIT: Jhon Tairo Influencing global debates The Ultra Poor Graduation Model The proven success of the Graduation approach has spurred governments and development agencies to expand the model to millions of people.	A Ugandan man learns how to hang a mosquito net from a village health trainer 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	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
Using results Evidence-Based Community Healthcare in Zambia The Zambian government is using evidence from an IPA evaluation to improve health care delivery in rural areas.	Scaling effective solutions Fingerprinting Scale-Up: Malawi Uses Evidence to Reduce Risky Borrowing Findings have influenced Malawi’s central bank to support the scale-up of a fingerprinting program.

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