December 29, 2021

By Brooke Jardine – NORC at the University of Chicago for USAID Research Technical Assistance Center (RTAC) In the summer of 2020, the Analysis and Learning Division (ALD) at the USAID Bureau for Resilience and Food Security partnered with RTAC to test machine learning (ML) methods for aggregating and synthesizing…

August 18, 2021

By Nigel Gibbs, RTAC Communications Manager This report examines the landscape of food security and how it is affected by conflict and other factors that make its stability uncertain or fragile. The authors propose how the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) can adopt strategic approaches, programming, and measurement…

April 21, 2021

Quality assurance in early childhood education (ECE) is pivotal in ensuring that children in ECE programs have an experience that helps them develop and learn. This policy brief provides guidance for developing quality assurance systems for ECE in Africa.

November 19, 2020

To better understand the opportunities and challenges at the country level in early childhood education, care and learning, ECD Measure conducted a needs assessment with six USAID Africa Missions. This brief provides a summary of the assessment’s main findings.

November 3, 2020

This innovation brief describes the growing impact of hydroelectric dams on the Amazon River ecosystem in Brazil, including changes to landscapes, wildlife diversity and food security for local communities. It offers recommendations for improving existing policy instruments to ensure that assessments for new dams in the basin include flooded environments…

October 14, 2020

A brief overview of the initiative, Together for Early Childhood Evidence: Consortium on Pre-Primary Data and Measurement in Africa.

June 1, 2020

About the Convening In December 2019, the United States Agency for International Development (USAID)’s U.S. Global Development Lab with the Research Technical Assistance Center (RTAC) brought together 66 researchers, funders, implementing partners, and policymakers in Washington, D.C., to discuss research utilization through the lens of women’s empowerment. This convening brief…

April 13, 2020

This innovation brief describes Sharing the Land’s promising approach to address land conflicts and promote transparency in land governance in the Democratic Republic of Congo. The brief describes factors that contribute to land conflict and how a “fit-for-purpose” approach can improve land tenure and security, conflict mitigation, land information systems,…

October 25, 2019

About the convening In May 2019, the United States Agency for International Development (USAID)’s Global Development Lab with Duke University’s DevLab@Duke and NORC at the University of Chicago convened nearly 90 academic experts, digital practitioners, development partners, and USAID colleagues in Washington, D.C. to discuss the latest research on machine…