Thrive: Evidence for Scaling Childhood Development

Thrive is a large-scale, multi-country research and policy programme which aims to build understanding of Early Childhood Development (ECD) service delivery models, at scale, and how they can transform to significantly improve childhood health, nutrition, education and wellbeing outcomes in low- and middle-income countries. Thrive seeks comprehensive, practical answers about how ECD systems innovate, improve, and better serve children and communities.

• Project
• Education Poverty and social protection (PSP) Research and Evidence (R&E)
• OPM United Kingdom
• Bangladesh Ghana Sierra Leone Tanzania

Evidence to enhance health system resilience in fragile settings

Two billion of the world’s poorest people live in fragile and conflict-affected settings. This figure is rising, fuelled by growing inequality, violence, conflicts and other shocks. In these fragile and shock-prone areas, progress towards Universal Health Coverage is slow.

• Project
• Health Research and Evidence (R&E) Cross-cutting themes
• Lebanon Myanmar Nepal Sierra Leone

Improving secondary education in Sierra Leone

We are leading the monitoring, evaluation and research delivery of a five year programme to improve secondary education and long term growth in Sierra Leone

• Project
• Education Research and Evidence (R&E) Cross-cutting themes
• Sierra Leone

Maintains programme: Research supporting social services' adaptation to external shocks

This innovative FCDO-funded research programme in six countries explored how to improve the resilience of social services during and after external shocks

• Project
• Climate, Energy, and Nature Health Poverty and social protection (PSP) Research and Evidence (R&E)
• Bangladesh Ethiopia Kenya Pakistan Sierra Leone Uganda

Do fragile and conflict-affected countries prioritise core government functions?

80% of the world's poorest could live in fragile and conflict-affected contexts by 2030.

• Project
• Governance Poverty and social protection (PSP)
• Myanmar Pakistan Sierra Leone South Sudan Colombia

Harnessing natural resources for human development

• Project
• Climate, Energy, and Nature Poverty and social protection (PSP) Cross-cutting themes
• OPM United States OPM Tanzania
• Ghana Liberia Mozambique Sierra Leone Tanzania, United Republic of Uganda

Data Management and Analytic Capability (DMAC) in sub-Saharan Africa

Deepening financial inclusion in sub-Saharan African using data- driven evidence-based decision making

• Project
• Research and Evidence (R&E) Cross-cutting themes
• OPM United Kingdom OPM South Africa
• Sierra Leone Tanzania, United Republic of Zambia