This article explores actions human services leaders can take to embed the sector in critical conversations surrounding climate change and effectively engage in efforts to address issues stemming from climate impact and environmental injustice.
Agricultural technologies can contribute significantly to greenhouse gas emissions. This brief describes a decision support tool that quantifies and monetizes such impacts to inform scale-up of innovative technologies that deliver “win–win” agricultural and environmental outcomes.
The evaluation’s key objectives are to understand the effectiveness of TA delivery in supporting cities’ efforts towards the goal of collecting GHG emissions data, reporting a GHG emissions inventory, and developing mitigation actions.
This report presents findings from a midline assessment of The Power of Nutrition, a global partnership of investors and implementers committed to improving children’s nutrition and contributing to ending the cycle of undernutrition.
In 2010, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF) partnered with the Government of Bihar (GoB), India to launch the Ananya program to improve reproductive, maternal, newborn and child health and nutrition (RMNCHN) outcomes.
Mobile health (mHealth) tools have potential for improving the reach and quality of health information and services through community health workers in low- and middle-income countries.
The Government of Bihar (GoB) in India, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and several non-governmental organisations launched the Ananya program aimed to support the GoB to improve reproductive, maternal, newborn and child health and nutrition (RMNCHN) statewide.
Despite increasing focus on health inequities in low- and middle income countries, significant disparities persist.
This brief outlines four priority areas for the new administration’s consideration that offer opportunities for high-impact climate action: (1) sustainable climate finance, (2) analytic frameworks and decision support tools to maximize impact, (3) behavior change interventions combined with rapid-cycle...
Global actions to slow climate change are critical, and so is the need to bring a massive influx of funding to adapt to conditions that are now inevitable. The past decade has seen significant capital commitment to address climate change, focused primarily on mitigation actions in the energy sector....
The Children's Investment Fund Foundation (CIFF), one of C40's strategic funders, commissioned Mathematica to conduct an independent evaluation of two major components of C40's direct support: Paris Agreement-compliant climate action plans and thematic networks.
Many foreign aid agencies fund large-scale agricultural training for farmers in developingcountries, but little rigorous research has been conducted on whether these programs are effective. We conducted a rigorous impact evaluation of a U.S.government-funded farmer training program in Armenia.
mHealth technology holds promise for improving the effectiveness of frontline health workers (FLWs), who provide most health-related primary care services, especially reproductive, maternal, newborn, child health and nutrition services (RMNCHN), in low-resource - especially hard-to-reach - settings....
The authors evaluated the impact of a ‘Team-Based Goals and Incentives’ (TBGI) intervention in Bihar, India, designed to improve front-line (community health) worker (FLW) performance and health-promoting behaviours related to reproductive, maternal, newborn and child health and nutrition.
The Power of Nutrition, launched in April 2015, is a partnership of investors and implementers committed to improving children’s nutrition and contributing to ending the cycle of undernutrition.
The Power of Nutrition, launched in April 2015, is a partnership of investors and implementers committed to improving children’s nutrition and contributing to ending the cycle of undernutrition.
The Power of Nutrition seeks to invest in evidence-based nutrition interventions in 5 to 10 high priority countries.
The Millennium Challenge Corporation contracted with Mathematica to conduct a rigorous randomized evaluation of the Indonesian Community-Based Health and Nutrition to Reduce Stunting Project, also known as the Nutrition Project, to understand the project’s effects on stunting and related key maternal...
Findings from a rigorous randomized controlled trial of an innovative, comprehensive mHealth tool for frontline health workers (FLWs) in Bihar, India, found improvements in FLW-beneficiary interactions as well as improved health outcomes for mothers and children.
This report examines the impact of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1985 (COBRA) subsidy offer on COBRA take-up, health insurance coverage, labor market outcomes, and financial well-being.
This report evaluates the impacts of a comprehensive package of interventions aimed at improving maternal and child health in Bihar, India, after two years of implementation.
The Ananya program in Bihar, India, has implemented both supply- and demand-side strategies to improve coverage and uptake of maternal and child health, reproductive health, and nutrition services.
This issue brief summarizes the final report for Mathematica’s evaluation of the Millennium Challenge Corporation’s Rwanda Threshold Program. The brief presents the study’s findings regarding the impacts of four programs related to democracy and governance.
This is the final report for Mathematica’s evaluation of the Millennium Challenge Corporation’s Rwanda Threshold Program. The report presents the study’s findings regarding the impacts of four programs related to democracy and governance.
This issue brief explores the effect of adding the Team-Based Goals and Performance-Based Incentives (TBGI, see left) intervention to the Ananya program.
This report summarizes a rigorous randomized evaluation of a teamwork and goal-setting intervention in Bihar, India, that uses incentives and lessons from motivational theory to encourage teams of frontline health workers to improve maternal and child health in their communities.
This study analyzes factors associated with transitions into and out of disconnectedness, which is defined as being disconnected from the labor market, welfare, and other substantial financial supports.
This report presents preliminary findings from an evaluation funded by the Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) of the Rwanda Threshold Program, which aims to promote political rights, civil liberties, and political accountability through several initiatives, including strengthening police accountability,...
Low-quality or nonexistent sanitation affects health and hinders economic development, especially in the world's poorest countries.
The Social Security Administration is funding a random assignment evaluation of six demonstration projects to improve employment and other outcomes for youth ages 14 to 25 who are either receiving disability benefits or are at high risk of receiving them in the future.
The Millennium Challenge Account with Armenia (MCA) aims to increase household income and reduce poverty in rural Armenia through improved performance of the country’s agricultural sector.
The Millennium Challenge Account with Armenia (MCA) aims to increase household income and reduce poverty in rural Armenia through improved performance of the country’s agricultural sector.