J-PAL Africa, based at the University of Cape Town, leads J-PAL’s work in sub-Saharan Africa. J-PAL Africa conducts randomized evaluations, builds partnerships for evidence-informed policymaking, and helps partners scale up effective programs.

J-PAL Africa is a growing office with a fun, diverse and inclusive team. We have offices in Cape Town, Johannesburg, Nairobi and Accra. Learn more about our current team members. If you would like to receive notifications about open positions, please sign up for our jobs newsletter.

The J-PAL Africa research team conducts randomized evaluations on social programs and policies in South Africa. We have hubs in Cape Town and Johannesburg, and work in partnership with local and international researchers, government bodies and NGOs across South Africa. Our work covers a wide variety...

The J-PAL Africa policy team works with governments, researchers, and NGOs to increase evidence use by bridging the gap between rigorous research and action in sub-Saharan Africa to improve lives at scale. Based all over the continent, our policy staff work on a wide variety of topics. We have...

Africa will experience transformative population growth from approximately 1.4 billion today to 3.3 billion in 2075. Job creation and access to decent work pose immense challenges. Currently, 85 percent of employment in sub-Saharan Africa is informal, and 82 percent of tertiary educated young...

In March 2025, J-PAL Africa and the Ministry of Development and Coordination of Government Action (MDC) launched a multi-year partnership to support the generation and use of evidence in public policy across Benin. The collaboration builds on the country’s growing commitment to evidence-informed...

J-PAL Africa’s Education and Gender Portfolio works to strengthen education systems across sub-Saharan Africa by ensuring that policy and practice are grounded in rigorous evidence. We focus on advancing learning for students, with a strong emphasis on gender equity in education and girls...

A J-PAL Africa portfolio advancing evidence-based solutions to expand access to safe drinking water.

J-PAL is invested in creating more opportunities for African researchers to develop and drive the research agenda on the African continent through the use of randomized evaluations.

The J-PAL Africa training team organises in-person trainings, online courses and customised workshops for researchers, policymakers and program implementers on the design and implementation of randomized evaluations on the continent.

J-PAL Europe, based at the Paris School of Economics, builds partnerships for evidence-informed policymaking across Europe by fostering the development of new randomised evaluations and helping partners draw on existing rigorous evidence to design and scale effective programmes. We also support the...

The J-PAL Europe office is based in Paris at the Paris School of Economics. We recruit new staff members to work with us on one or more of our four teams: the Policy and Communications team, the Research team, the Training team and the Finance and Operations team. We also run an internship programme...

J-PAL Europe fosters the generation of new rigorous evaluation in Europe by funding research projects designed to expand the evidence base in key thematic areas and by partnering with governments and organisations to institutionalise efforts to use rigorous evidence in the design of more effective...