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Abt to Help Massachusetts Extract, Review and Analyze Opioid Overdose Data
Project
Identifying opioid overdose events in administrative records is not always straightforward. Not all people who overdose are taken to hospitals, and some overdoses are reversed by administering naloxone (Narcan), which can be done by first responders,…
Setting a Health-Based Benchmark for Lead in Drinking Water
Project
Abt Global provided technical assistance to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) Office of Ground Water and Drinking Water to support the development of a draft report outlining potential approaches to inform a health-based benchmark for lead…
Lump Sum or Recurring: Can Cash Transfers Break the Cycles of Poverty?
Blog
Data from US & international guaranteed income pilots pose critical questions – does an annual lump sum, monthly payments, or a combination best help families?
VOSViewer: A Network Mapping Tool for Analyzing Topics with a Substantive Knowledge Base
Publication
This brief by Abt Global discusses a preferred tools for processing large amounts of information in 21st century knowledge curation.
Reducing Early Childhood Obesity (RECO) Evaluation
Project
Many young children are overweight or obese, which can lead to poor health outcomes later in life as well as higher health care costs. First 5 LA, an independent county agency that helps prepare children for kindergarten during their first five years,…
Food, Agribusiness and Rural Markets in South Sudan
Project
Abt Global led the USAID- and Feed the Future-funded Food, Agribusiness, and Rural Markets (FARM) projects, which established a strong foundation for agricultural development in South Sudan’s fertile Greenbelt region. The first FARM project, which ran…
Administrative Review & Training Grant Evaluation
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State agencies oversee and review Local Educational Authorities (LEAs) that demonstrate a high level of, or a high risk for, administrative error and must adopt a robust and unified accountability system. To help state agencies, the Food and Nutrition…
Helping Promise Neighborhoods Institute Fulfill Its Promise
Project
The Promise Neighborhood program is a place-based initiative designed to improve the educational outcomes of children through linked, holistic and evidence-based cradle-to-career interventions. The program’s grantees provide a menu of services to the…
Evaluating Data on School Turnaround AmeriCorps Efforts
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School Turnaround AmeriCorps is a grant program to increase high school graduation, college readiness, and educational attainment for students in our nation’s persistently lowest-achieving schools, designated as School‐Improvement Grant (SIG) or Priority…