Partners
3IE - International Initiative for Impact Evaluation
3ie’s mission is to contribute to the fulfillment of aspirations for wellbeing by encouraging the production and use of evidence from rigorous impact evaluations for policy decisions that improve social and economic development programs in low- and middle-income countries.
Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Started in June 2003 by Professors Abhijit Banerjee, Esther Duflo, and Sendhil Mullainathan at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and renamed in honor of Abdul Latif Jameel in October 2005, the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL) serves as a focal point for development and poverty research based on randomized trials. The objective is to improve the effectiveness of poverty programs by providing policy makers with clear scientific results that help shape successful policies to combat poverty. J-PAL works with NGOs, international organizations, and others to evaluate programs and disseminate the results of high quality research. J-PAL works on issues as diverse as boosting girls' attendance at school, improving the output of farmers in sub-Saharan Africa, racial bias in employment in the US, and the role of women political leaders in India.
Abt Associates
Abt Associates applies research and consulting techniques to a wide range of issues in social, economic, and health policy, international development, business research, and clinical trials and registries. They have partnered with IPA to extend health insurance in Nicaragua.
Action on Armed Violence (formerly Landmine Action)
Action on Armed Violence (AOAV) is a not-for-profit organization. AOAV believes that safety and security are fundamental to poverty alleviation, they underpin trust relationships which are in turn the basis of property rights, credit and equitable transactions. Addressing the problems of conventional weapons and armed violence should therefore be seen as congruent with broader efforts to reduce poverty such as the millennium development goals.
Acumen Fund
We believe that pioneering entrepreneurs will ultimately find the solutions to poverty. The entrepreneurs Acumen Fund supports are focused on offering critical services – water, health, housing, and energy – at affordable prices to people earning less than four dollars a day.
Aga Khan Planning and Building Services
The Aga Khan Planning and Building Services (AKPBS) works to improve the built environment, particularly housing design and construction, village planning, natural hazard mitigation, environmental sanitation, water supplies, and other living conditions. AKPBS achieves these goals through the provision of material and technical assistance and construction management services for rural and urban areas.
Agence Francaise de Developpement (AFD)
The AFD is the French Development Agency, the ministry of the French government which participates in promoting and financing development throughout the world.
Agricultural Technology Adoption Initiative
The Agricultural Technology Adoption Initiative (ATAI) is a collaboration between researchers at MIT’s Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL) and UC Berkeley’s Center of Evaluation for Global Action (CEGA), supported by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and an anonymous donor.
