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Examining Effects of Small Area Fair Market Rent on the Housing Choice Voucher Program
Project
Housing Choice Vouchers let residents choose housing units that meet rent and quality guidelines. Using a single metropolitan-wide standard to set the maximum subsidy for voucher holders can limit recipients’ access to neighborhoods with high-performing…
Evaluation of SkilledKC
Project
Widening skills gaps in high-demand occupations indicate the need to develop training programs that better fit industry needs and the circumstances of individuals who could fill those needs.
Preparing New Teachers for Day One
Project
The Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education’s Candidate Assessment of Performance (CAP) is designed to assess the overall readiness of teacher candidates. The state wants to identify best practices, tailor guidelines and…
Big Win for Children’s Nutrition: Summer EBT Fully Funded
Blog
Abt Global’s decade of evaluations of the Summer Electronic Benefit Transfer for Children pilot can inform the national rollout of the pilot.
Overcoming Undermatching in Postsecondary Education
Project
Where students go to college is key to their educational attainment and later economic success. However, 41 percent of students nationally and about half of those from lower socioeconomic backgrounds undermatch—meaning they don’t attend college or they…
Poly-pipe Irrigation Conserves Water and Cuts Costs in Egypt
Impact Brief
Poly-pipe irrigation can conserve scarce water, improve crop quality, and increase incomes.
Three Tips for Supporting Family Planning and the Private Sector
Impact Brief
Data analysis fueled a health financing model from USAID’s Abt-led SHOPS Plus, which demonstrates how pharmacies and drug shops can support family planning.
From Policy to Action: Broadening Health Services in Rwanda
Impact Brief
Through SHOPS Plus, Abt helped Rwanda increase access to DMPA oral contraceptive by helping to create a regulatory and logistical enabling environment.
Evaluating the Cell and Gene Therapy Access Model
Project
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services created the Cell and Gene Therapy Access Model to be able to negotiate with manufacturers on behalf of states to make high-cost specialty drugs available to beneficiaries and affordable to State Medicaid Agencies.
Telemedicine: A Lifeline for Ukraine's Health System Amidst War
Impact Brief
The Abt-led USAID Local Health System Sustainability Project is helping Ukraine adopt telemedicine to connect people to healthcare during the war with Russia.