Ethiopia
DigiFI African Scholars Birku Reta Entele and Shibiru Ayalew Melesse received funding in DigiFI Africa's first round RFP for their proposal development grant, The Impact of Biometric Identification Technology Use on Employee Attendance and Payroll Management: Experimental Evidence From Ethiopia Public Service Sector.
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Democratic Republic of Congo
Jonathan Weigel and Augustin Bergeron received funding in DigiFI Africa's first round RFP for their proposal development grant, Formalising Informal Taxation: Evidence from DR Congo.
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Nigeria
In Kano, the Kano State Universal Basic Education Board, Ministry of Education and Sa'adatu
Rimi College Of Education, with support from TaRL Africa, the British Council and the UK
Department for International Development launched the TaRL-inspired Kano Literacy and Maths
Accelerator (KaLMA) pilot in 240 schools.
The State Government of Borno, supported by UNICEF, Plan International, and TaRL Africa
is currently scaling up the TaRL approach in 2019-2020.
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Niger
The Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) is part of the TaRL Community of Practice, a group of organisations implementing the TaRL approach in Africa.
Learn more about JICA's TaRL-inspired Minimum Package for Quality Learning (PMAQ) programme being implemented in Niger.
Senegal
J-PAL affiliated professor Marc Gurgand, with researchers Denis Cogneau, Justine Knebelmann, Victor Pouliquen, and Bassirou Sarr received funding in DigiFI Africa's first round RFP for their randomised
evaluation, Bringing Property Owners into the Tax Net: Avenues of Fiscal Capacity and Local Governance.
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Rwanda
In 2013, the Rwandan Government and J-PAL co-hosted the
Decision Science Symposium to discuss evidence relevant to Rwanda.
The Government decided to explore whether an
HIV-prevention programme could be effective in Rwanda.
The Generalizability Puzzle includes a case study of this scoping work and the decision not to scale this up.
The Government also began a Water Tanks Loan pilot, with support from Innovations for Poverty Action (IPA) Rwanda and J-PAL Africa, based on
evidence from Kenya.
J-PAL affiliated professors, Jonathan Robinson and Susan Godlonton, with Shilpa Aggarwal and Alan Spearot, received funding in DigiFI Africa's first round RFP for their proposal development grant, Digital Input Value Chains and Farmer Credit: A proposal in collaboration with the Rwandan Agricultural Board.
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Zambia
The Ministry of General Education's Catch Up programme is rolling out to over 1,800 schools this year. Catch Up, Zambia's TaRL programme, is implemented by the Ministry with support from UNICEF, VVOB - education for development, USAID, Innovations for Poverty Action, and TaRL Africa.
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Kenya
Evidence Action and ziziAfrique are part of the TaRL Community of Practice, a group of organisations implementing the TaRL approach
in Africa. Evidence Action is working with the government on their G-United TaRL-inspired programme. ziziAfrique is implementing a
TaRL-inspired Accelerated Learning Programme (ALP).
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DigiFI's Post-Doctoral Associate, Gabriel Tourek received funding in DigiFI Africa's first round RFP in 2019 for a pilot project,
Linking Digital Identification to Social Protection in Kenya.
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Ghana
Abu S. Shonchoy and Emma Riley received funding in DigiFI Africa's first round RFP for their proposal development grant, the impact of salary payment frequency on consumption smoothing, saving and investment patterns of civil servants in Ghana.
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Sierra Leone
The Ministry of Health and Sanitation, with support from the World Food Programme, J-PAL Africa, Innovations for Poverty Action (IPA) Sierra Leone, and Frontier Research launched a pilot intervention providing
incentives for childhood immunization.
J-PAL Africa supported Search for Common Ground in expanding their evidence-based parliamentary debates intervention.
Madagascar
The Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) is part of the TaRL Community of Practice, a group of
organisations implementing the TaRL approach in Africa.
Learn more about JICA's TaRL-inspired Minimum Package for Quality Learning (PMAQ) programme being implemented in Madagascar.
Mozambique
Facilidade ICDS is part of the TaRL Community of Practice, a group of organisations implementing the TaRL approach in Africa.
Learn more about Facilidades ICDS' TaRL-inspired TPC Mozambique programme.
Côte d'Ivoire
The Ministry of National Education of Côte d’Ivoire, with support from Transforming Education in Cocoa Communities (TRECC), Innovations for Poverty Action (IPA),
Cemoi, and TaRL Africa (a J-PAL-Pratham joint venture) piloted and is currently scaling le
Programme d’Enseignment Ciblé (PEC), the first TaRL programme ever launched in French. Innovations for Poverty Action (IPA) is collecting independent process monitoring data of the pilot
to determine the programme’s readiness to be implemented at a larger scale.
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Uganda
Building Tomorrow is part of the TaRL Community of Practice, a group of organisations implementing the TaRL approach in Africa.
Learn more about Building Tomorrow's TaRL-inspired Roots to Rise programme.
South Africa
In South Africa, our research team evaluates the impact of social programmes and policies, covering a wide range of sectors including labour markets, urban services,
and political particpation.
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Young 1ove is part of the TaRL Community of Practice, a group of organisations implementing the TaRL approach in Africa.
Learn more about Young 1ove's TaRL partnerships and programmeMalawi
J-PAL affiliated professors Pascaline Dupas and Jessica Goldberg received
funding in DigiFI Africa's first round RFP for their pilot study,
Digital Identification for Poverty Alleviation
in Malawi.
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