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.
Understanding how the pandemic is shaping extreme poverty… can big data help?
For the International Day for the Eradication of Poverty 2021, Finn Tarp, Nikos Tzavidis, Peter Lanjouw and Lucy Scott explore what the evolving global pandemic may mean for extreme poverty and how big data might play a role in helping us to understand it.
Covid-19 and flood recovery cash transfer programme in Cambodia
We conducted operational research to generate and document key learnings for the World Food Programme's pilot cash transfer programme.
Adaptive Social Protection: promoting knowledge sharing and innovation
We are working to enhance capacities for shock-responsive and crisis-adaptive design and implementation of social protection systems in partner countries.
Strengthen and ensure convergence and interoperability for digital social protection
We are working on standards and guidelines to foster an ecosystem for innovation in social protection in which technology solution providers can build interoperable products.
How to successfully adapt impact evaluations during covid-19
Four key learnings from our evaluation of the UNICEF managed Mwanganza Mashinani pilot project
Data & Evidence to End Extreme Poverty
This project aims to contribute to new global and national data and evidence that governments, decision makers, citizens and researchers can use to improve people’s lives and support the world’s poorest people in their efforts to escape extreme poverty.