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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...

Lancement d’un partenariat national au Bénin pour appuyer l’élaboration de politiques publiques fondées sur des données probantes

J-PAL Afrique a lancé un partenariat pluriannuel avec le Ministère du Développement et de la Coordination de l’Action gouvernementale (MDC) du Bénin. Cette collaboration vise à co-définir, produire et intégrer des données probantes dans les politiques publiques à travers l’ensemble de l...
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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.
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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).
Speakers at the launch event of Launching the Jobs and Entrepreneurship in Africa Portfolio

Tackling unemployment in sub-Saharan Africa with Evidence: Launching the Jobs and Entrepreneurship in Africa Portfolio

J-PAL Africa has officially launched the Jobs and Entrepreneurship in Africa (JEA) Portfolio, which aims to identify high impact and cost-effective strategies to promote growth for small and medium enterprises as a route to job creation.