2025 Mission Impact Report
At Abt, Impact means changes for people, organizations, systems, and the planet that promote meaningful progress towards our Mission. Our Mission Impact Reports share insights into how we make this happen every day.
Letter from Our CEO
In 1965, Clark Abt set out to build a company grounded in evidence, driven by mission, and serious about solving hard problems. For 60 years, that vision has anchored what we do.
We’ve adapted across time—through progress and pivots, policy shifts and a pandemic—but why we do this work will never change. We show up because we believe in the power of practical solutions to improve people’s lives worldwide.
Our Mission Impact Reports honor the changes we influence around the world. We don’t do it alone. These achievements come from strong partnerships with our clients, partners, and communities across the U.S. and in dozens of countries. Together, we make a difference.
Whether working with farmers, health workers, housing leaders, or national policymakers, we lead with resilience and ...
Our Impact
From Crisis to Control: Sustained Impact of U.S. HIV Investments in Mozambique
In Mozambique, the largest transition to locally led HIV program in the world is underway.
From Experiment to Action: How Medicare is Transforming Cancer Care
Cancer is one of the most expensive and complex conditions to treat. But can better care for cancer patients also cost less?
Coastal Resilience Powered by Open Data and Modern Tools
For the Department of the Interior, streamlined data access and user-friendly tools that strengthen coastal protection, marine minerals access, and environmental resilience.
Addressing Cumulative Air Pollution in Massachusetts
Supporting Massachusetts in developing cumulative impact analysis and protective air permitting tools.
Does a Pay-For-Results Approach Advance Agricultural Development?
Abt’s decade-long evaluation of AgResults explains how its approach works (and doesn’t) to spur uptake of commercial innovations in emerging economies.
US Investment Unlocks Trade-Ready Opportunities in Egypt
Egypt’s agriculture sector is becoming a commercially viable trade partner—with lower post-harvest losses, higher yields, and more private investment from U.S.-aligned firms.
Smoke-Free Cocoa Opens Premium Export Opportunities for PNG
A low-cost solar innovation is raising incomes, reducing labour, and putting Papua New Guinea’s smallholder cocoa growers on the premium export map.
When Data Improves Lives: Tackling Nutrition with Better Systems
Strengthening community systems to detect malnutrition early and ensure all children in Timor-Leste have a healthy start.
Our Approach to Mission Impact
We are a mission-driven organization focused on improving the quality of life and economic well-being of people worldwide.
Good Health
We advance public health, improve integrated primary health care services, fight infectious diseases, strengthen health systems and resilience, enhance community engagement, and expand public-private sector engagement in health. Whether it’s maternal and child health, mental health, global health security, or cancer – we deliver evidence-based solutions to improve people’s health worldwide.
Thriving Environment
We solve environmental challenges around the world to expand clean energy, improve the availability of clean water and sanitation, promote sustainable management of natural resources, and advance environmental quality for all. We do all of this to strengthen sustainable and resilient livelihoods for people globally.
Secure Economies
Through policy, evidence generation, technical assistance and digital innovation we expand agricultural production, strengthen market systems, advance workforce development, strengthen educational outcomes, and improve economic opportunities for people worldwide. We do so because improving the economic well-being of people is a core element of our mission.
Effective Governance
To support effective governance for just, secure societies, Abt brokers partnerships among governments, public-private coalitions, civil society organizations, and communities to calibrate and lead programs and policies responsive to local needs. We believe in the importance of locally-driven solutions to influence and sustain positive change.
Good Health
Crisis to Control: Impact of U.S. HIV Investments
In Mozambique, the largest transition to locally led HIV program in the world is underway.
ECHO wasn’t designed for perpetuity—it was designed for transition. That’s what makes it a model.
now receiving lifesaving HIV treatment in ECHO-supported provinces—more than double since the project began.
The Abt team developed, implemented, and evaluated a communication campaign to increase education about and awareness of heart valve disease among the public, those at risk, and healthcare professionals.
Thriving Environment
How to Make Drinking Water Safer
Abt’s expertise with PFAS, lead, and perchlorate enables us to assess health risks, technology effectiveness, and health benefits of water treatment options.
For more than five decades, Abt's experts have been integrating expertise in science, policy, and economics to bring data-driven solutions to protect human health and the environment.
Abt has championed clean water infrastructure and policy for over 56 years, since our landmark 1969 study, Water and the Cities.
For the Department of the Interior, streamlined data access and user-friendly tools that strengthen coastal protection, marine minerals access, and environmental resilience.
Secure Economies
Feeding the Nation: How Innovation Fuels US Agriculture
America’s farmers feed our families and care for the land, whether they manage a few acres or thousands. Across the country, amid shrinking margins, producers face challenges in accessing loans, responding to disasters, and navigating federal assistance.
Effective Governance
Abt’s Approach to Practical AI Adoption for Government
Abt’s AI advisory services help agencies move beyond pilots to AI adoption through structured implementation, strong governance, & workforce enablement.
Our People and Operations
60 Years of Impact
At Abt, we run our organization with a focus on mission, values, and impact.
Our Communities
Our Communities
At Abt, our values and mission mean we care about humanitarian crises wherever they may occur as well as our neighbors closer to home.