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Finding the indiscernible poor: Community knowledge as a targeting approach

Varying estimates of poverty have often resulted in some deprived communities being excluded from government welfare schemes. Sabarwal and Chowdhry look at the case of Satat Jeevikoparjan Yojana in Bihar, which uses the mechanisms recommended by BRAC’s Graduation Approach and harnesses community...

MIT’s Flagship Project To Pilot In Bangladesh And Sudan

An international project to build community resilience to the effects of climate change, launched by Community Jameel and a research team at MIT, has been recognized as an innovation sprint at the 2023 summit of the United States’ and United Arab Emirates’ Agriculture Innovation Mission for Climate...

Three universities picked to train 10 lakh Indians in climate, health data work

Three universities have been picked to train 10 lakh Indians in climate work in collaboration with the South Asia branch of J-PAL.

Cutting the cost of education alone is not enough to prevent dropout, finds research

Recently, the French Education Minister, Pap Ndiaye, announced a potential education reform requiring private schools to diversify their student population to maintain public subsidies from the State. J-PAL affiliates Abhijeet Singh and Mauricio Romero analyzed the effect of this policy introduction...

Program launched to train 1 million Indians in climate and health data work

J-PAL is assisting three universities with the India Data Capacity Accelerator, which envisions one million Indians trained in using data to solve climate and health-related challenges.

Brac, Jameel Observatory-CREWSnet project to reduce poverty with climate-adaptive innovations

Read more about how Jameel Observatory Climate Resilience Early Warning System Network (Jameel Observatory-CREWSnet) and Community Jameel will partner with Brac to pilot innovative climate-adaptive technologies in the southwest region of Bangladesh

Empowering patients with information to improve hospital accountability

Despite the expansion of free healthcare for the poor throughout India, many hospitals continue to charge patients out-of-pocket fees. In this article, J-PAL affiliate Pascaline Dupas and Jain investigate whether informing patients of their benefits helps hold hospitals accountable

Bhopal: ‘Urja Desk’ allows women to freely share issues with police

International researchers have found that Urja Desk instituted in the police stations of the state have given ample space for the women victims to share their problems with the police. The fact came out in the three day Justice, Inclusion and Victim’s Access (JIVA) conference that started from...