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Improving Conservation Services Through Agile Digital Transformation
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TSPi is using agile teams to modernize the financial management portion of the Natural Resources Conservation Service’s information technology portfolio.
Design & Implementation Support for Maryland Value-Based Healthcare Programs
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Abt helped Maryland design and benchmark a statewide value based care model that saved $689 million and informed national health policy.
PMI Evolve: Evolving Vector Control to Fight Malaria
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The World Health Organization estimates that about 608,000 people died from malaria in 2022, a slight decrease from the prior year, but still higher than before the onset of the global COVID-19 pandemic. Young children and pregnant women are among the…
Analyzing If An Oncology Care Model Will Improve Care and Lower Costs
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Cancer strikes 1.6 million Americans each year. It imposes huge costs: heartache, death, and an estimated $263.8 billion in medical care and lost productivity in 2010, the most recent data available. Cancer care is complex and improving it faces a legal…
Abt Implements SSDI Benefit Offset Demonstration
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In 2015, Congress directed the Social Security Administration (SSA) to test mitigating the effects of ending Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) benefits when earnings exceed the cutoff level. The test allowed beneficiaries to keep $1 in benefits…
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.
The Work of John Mayne: Using Evaluative Information Sensibly to Bridge the Gaps Between Evaluation and Monitoring
Publication
Sebastian Lemire co-authored three articles on John Mayne’s evaluation work in a special edition of The Canadian Journal of Program Evaluation.
How We Model Matters – Visualizing Program Theories
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This methods guide aims to help both program developers and evaluators advance the creativity and energy in their own work.
Productive Uses of Energy in African Agriculture Could Reduce Poverty
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As conditions for the adoption of productive uses of energy improve in sub-Saharan Africa, this paper makes suggestions to accelerate their adoption.
High School Counseling and College Financial Aid
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This report from Abt and Anlar finds correlations between meeting with a high school counselor, FAFSA completion, and receipt of need-based grants for college.