Soap operas for safe sex: Changing young people's behavior through media
An entertaining television drama series led young adults to adopt safer sexual health practices—succeeding where other public health campaigns have struggled.
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Boosting vaccine coverage to save children's lives
Making vaccines easier to access and more in-demand protects children from getting sick and dying from preventable diseases.
The life-saving power of high school scholarships
Investing in girls’ secondary education can have big payoffs for girls and for the next generation.
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Andria Smythe
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Maria Paz Monge
María Paz Monge is a Senior Policy and Communications Manager at J-PAL LAC, where she works on promoting the use of evidence in policymaking, developing partnerships, providing technical assistance for the scale-up and replication of interventions, and implementing the office’s communication...
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David Slusky
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Elizabeth Bond
Elizabeth Bond is a Senior Designer at J-PAL Global, where she provides organization-wide design management and support.
Evaluation
Video-based Group Extension for Women Farmers in India
In partnership with Digital Green and Jeevika, researchers conducted a randomized evaluation in Bihar, India, to assess the impact of a video-based training on female farmers’ adoption of a climate-smart technique called System of Rice Intensification (SRI), and their yields and profits. Farmers increased their yields and estimated profits and the intervention demonstrated cost-effectiveness.
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Karis Neufeld
Karis Neufeld is a Policy Manager at J-PAL Africa working to increase access to and use of water treatment products. She collaborates with researchers, policymakers, and practitioners to integrate evidence-based strategies into programming for sustainable impact.
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Pamela Jervis
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Girija Vaidyanathan
Policy insight
Improving agricultural information and extension services to increase small-scale farmer productivity
Agricultural extension services can be improved by leveraging tools like information and communication technologies, trainer incentives, or social learning to support small-scale farmers’ decisions to invest in new, profitable practices. Extension programs that target both male and female members of...
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Shagun Sabarwal
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Constanza Gajardo
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Training Researchers, Policymakers, and Practitioners
We offer in-person and virtual capacity-building courses and workshops to support our partner organizations’ generation and use of rigorous evidence.