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Woman giving numeracy books on International Literacy Day in Mozambique

Affiliate Spotlight: Selim Gulesci on addressing gender-based violence in Mozambican schools

In May 2025, J-PAL Africa invited LinkedIn readers to submit questions about a recent randomized evaluation on preventing gender-based violence in Mozambican schools, coauthored by J-PAL affiliated researcher Selim Gulesci. In this blog post, Selim responds to five questions from readers, sharing...
J-PAL and San Diego County staff at Training Session

Ideas to Implementation: Scoping evaluation possibilities to strengthen Climate Action Plan implementation in San Diego County

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The County of San Diego’s Office of Evaluation, Performance, and Analytics (OEPA), Planning and Development Services (PDS) teams, J-PAL staff, and UCSD researchers discuss their efforts to explore innovative evaluation possibilities aimed at strengthening the implementation of the Climate Action...
Panelists at the Benin Evidence Forum

Launch of national partnership in Benin to support evidence-informed policymaking

J-PAL Africa has launched a multi-year partnership with Benin’s Ministry of Development and Coordination of Government Action to co-identify, generate, and integrate evidence into policy across the government.
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Egypt Impact Lab: Making every Egyptian pound spent on development count

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The EIL’s integration into the formal structure of the National Institute for Governance and Sustainable Development in 2024 marked a turning point in Egypt’s commitment to evidence-based governance.
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Integrating conservation into development policy in Brazil

While individual behavior and corporate commitments play an important role in transitioning to a sustainable economic development model, the structural changes needed to mitigate environmental impacts can also be effectively achieved through well-designed public policies.
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Re-affirming the value of rigorous, policy-relevant research

Rigorous research plays an essential role in identifying which policies are achieving their intended goals. As leaders of a non-partisan research center, J-PAL North America believes in the power of data and evaluation to understand whether policies are working—and to course correct when they are...
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Reflecting on the end of USAID

Over the past two decades, J-PAL and members of our research network worked closely with USAID on many projects to design, pilot, and evaluate innovative solutions; scale up those found to be effective, scale down those that do not work; and widely share the learnings.
A farmer uses a drum seeder in India

Insights from the field: Exciting new work from aspiring researchers supported by the Agricultural Technology Adoption Initiative

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  • Karin Mason
In this blog, Karin Mason, former Agriculture Program Intern at CEGA, highlights three ATAI-funded projects led by graduate students Steven Brownstone (UCSD), Piyush Gandhi (UCSC), and Iacopo Bianchi (SU).