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Resource

UJALA African Scholars Program

The UJALA African Scholars Program supports African scholars to lead rigorous, policy-relevant impact evaluations in agriculture across the globe. Despite growing interest in evidence-based policymaking, many scholars face barriers to accessing the resources and support needed to lead high-quality...
Sector

Agriculture

J-PAL’s Agriculture sector focuses on improving agricultural systems in developing countries, including strategies to help farmers adopt practices and technologies that are profitable or environmentally sustainable, and programs that have the potential to better link farmers to markets.

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Initiative

Latin America Skills for Youth Program (SYP)

The Skills for Youth Program (SYP) seeks to identify and rigorously evaluate innovative solutions to improve youth employment in Latin America. Specifically, one of it goals is to address the gap between youth skills and labor market demand.
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Initiative

Southeast Asia Inclusive Financial Innovation Initiative (IFII)

The Inclusive Financial Innovation Initiative (IFII) aims to generate evidence on what digital financial services (DFS) work, why they work, and how they can be deployed to maximize impact.
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Initiative

Innovation for MSME Development Initiative (IMDI)

The Innovation for MSME Development Initiative (IMDI) aims to support evidence-based policymaking in the MSME sector. IMDI achieves this through generating policy-relevant research and sharing knowledge that can help government, non-governmental organizations, and the private sector identify...
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Initiative

Gender and Economic Agency (GEA) Initiative

J-PAL’s Gender and Economic Agency (GEA) Initiative funds randomized evaluations of strategies to enhance women’s economic agency.
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Initiative Resource

Humanitarian Protection Initiative Request for Proposals

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Update

September 2025 Global Monthly Newsletter

In the September edition of our newsletter, we highlight new evidence on crime and safety in the United States, examine India’s use of emissions trading to reduce industrial pollution, and explore barriers that continue to limit women’s participation in Egypt’s workforce.
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Initiative

Worker Prosperity Initiative (WPI)

J-PAL North America's Labor team aims to build an evidence-based playbook of strategies to increase opportunities for workers, reduce the economic barriers and social challenges in labor markets, and ensure that all workers share in the prosperity generated by technological change and economic...
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Blog

Beyond easy metrics: Evaluating what matters for women entrepreneurs

Tanvi Jaluka shares how she and her team at CARE conducted qualitative research as part of a baseline survey for Strive Women program in Peru, Pakistan, and Vietnam.
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Initiative Resource

DigiFI Request for Proposals

Research Paper

Making a Song and Dance About It: The Effectiveness of Teaching Children Vocabulary with Animated Music Videos

Lazare Kovo
Blog

African Scholar Spotlight: Lazare Kovo

We speak with Solomon Lazare Kovo from Emory University about how growing up in Benin shaped his passion for development economics. He explains how rigorous impact evaluations can help answer big policy questions, especially on gender gaps, learning, and employment.
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Update

Août 2025 Newsletter des secteurs Genre et Education de J-PAL Afrique

This edition (in French) spotlights exchanges between government partners in Ghana and South Africa focused on establishing evidence labs, shares findings from new research on vocational education and shifting gender norms in Nigeria, and explores key takeaways from global evidence on sharing key...
launching the Satat Jeevikoparjan Yojana Playbook, Going the Last Mile: Lifting ultra-poor households out of extreme poverty in Patna, Bihar.
Event

Going the Last Mile: Lifting Ultra-Poor Households Out of Extreme Poverty

The Bihar Rural Livelihoods Promotion Society (JEEViKA), in collaboration with Bandhan-Konnagar and J-PAL South Asia, hosted the launch of a new playbook capturing five years of learnings from Satat Jeevikoparjan Yojana (SJY)—the world’s first government-led scale-up of the Graduation Approach. The...