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Providing the First Forecast for Space Weather Effects and Impacts
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“Space weather” isn’t the next blockbuster movie franchise; it refers to conditions created by the sun, solar wind, magnetosphere, ionosphere and thermosphere near Earth’s space environment that impact our planet. The effects of space weather can…
Market-Based Solutions to Improve Nutrition in Tanzania
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In Tanzania, children are especially vulnerable to malnutrition: 42 percent of the country’s children under age five suffer from stunting, anemia, and other micronutrient deficiencies. Tuboreshe Chakula (Swahili for Let’s Improve Food) was a USAID-funded…
Bridging Research & Practice: Actionable Insights for Educators
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The Institute of Education Sciences’ What Works Clearinghouse wanted a systematic review of evidence on interventions designed to improve the social, emotional, and behavioral outcomes of students in kindergarten to grade 12. Abt Global and our partners…
Better Maps, More Investment: The Participatory Mapping and Planning (PMaP-1) Project
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Indonesia is an archipelago nation with more than 17,000 islands. Traditionally, communities have mapped their borders, relying on natural landmarks. However, the number of communities with accurate maps remains low. Resolving this uncertainty allows…
Projected Climate Change Impacts on Skiing and Snowmobiling: A Case Study of the United States
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Transform: Primary Health Care Project
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Achieving the Ethiopian Ministry of Health’s ambitious targets to reduce maternal, neonatal, and infant mortality by more than half requires substantial investments at the woreda (district) level. The ministry’s challenges include insufficient government…
Comprehensive Opioid, Stimulant, and Substance Use Program (COSSUP) Data and Evaluation Training & Technical Assistance
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People with a substance use disorder are overrepresented in the justice system, from the arrest phase to incarceration to the risk for recidivism. For example, more than 10 times as many people in prison (58 percent) and sentenced to jail (63 percent)…
Local Health System Sustainability Project (LHSS)
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Abt helped 25 countries reform their own health financing, improve access to and quality of health services, and prevent and contain disease outbreaks.