The Impact Initiative has closed. This website has now been archived and will no longer be updated.
The Impact Initiative has closed. This website has now been archived and will no longer be updated.
Blog: Universal Health Coverage - where did we get lost?
The global community has established a shared and widely accepted vision on the importance and significance of global goals, such as the SDGs and Universal Health Coverage (UHC). However, the contextual significance of achieving these goals and objectives varies depending on the context.
Investigating 'pockets of effectiveness' in developing countries: a new route to building state capacity for development
Principal Investigator: Sam Hickey. Lead Organisation: University of Manchester
 
Co-investigator: Giles Marcus Mohan
 
A major challenge for achieving poverty reduction is that the capacity of states to deliver development is in short supply, particularly in Africa.
Poverty alleviation and women refugees in the Middle East: empowerment through grassroots micro-entrepreneurship?
Principal Investigator: Haia Al- Dajani. Lead Organisation: University of Plymouth
 
Co-investigator: Susan Marlow
 
Contemporary political volatility within the Middle East region has led to far reaching socio-economic upheaval and strife with a devastating impact generating mass displacement of Iraqi, Palestinian, and Syrian refugees to Jordan, Lebanon and Turkey (UNCHR, 2014).
Schoolgirl in Madhya Pradesh, India
Improving school governance and learning outcomes at scale: a randomized evaluation of the Madhya Pradesh School Quality Assessment program
Principal Investigator: Karthik Muralidharan. Lead Organisation: Institute for Financial Management and Research
 
Co-investigator: Abhijeet Singh
 
We propose to conduct a randomized controlled trial (RCT) of one of the most ambitious recent attempts by a developing country government to improve education governance at scale.
Resilience policymaking in Nepal: giving voice to communities

Principal Investigator: Simon Rushton. Lead Organisation: University of Sheffield

Co-investigators: Bhimsen Devkota; Sarita Panday; Martina McGuinness; Jonathan Mark Joseph; Jiban Kumar Karki; Julie Balen; Andrew Chee Keng Lee

Schoolchildren from Thamel, Kathmandu
Organizational Perspectives on Accountability and Learning (OPAL): school management models and the social impact of schooling in Mumbai and Kathmandu
Principal Investigator: Robin Shields. Lead Organisation: University of Bath
 
Co-investigators: Stephen Carney; Swati Banerjee; Hugh Lauder; Andres Sandoval Hernandez; Ganesh Bahadur Singh; P.K. Shajahan
 
The project will investigate how the accountability of schools differs according the school management model and whether accountability is linked to differences in learning outcomes.
Outdoor classes in Afghanistan
Strengthening schools accountability mechanisms through participation: addressing education quality and equity in Afghanistan and Pakistan

Principal Investigator: Jean-Francois Trani. Lead Organisation: Washington University in St Louis

Co-investgators: Sheretta Butler-Barnes; Nidhi Singal; Atika Pasha; Juanita Vasquez-Escallon; Parul Bakhshi; Peter Hovmand; Aminulhaq Mayel; Farah Said; Sanjeev Kumar Rai; Muhammad Tahir Waqar

Students at the Cestos High School, Liberia.
Partnership schools for Liberia: impact on accountability mechanisms and education outcomes
Principal Investigator: Justin Sandefur. Lead Organisation: Innovations for Poverty Action
 
Liberia's public education system is moribund. The civil war of 1999-2003 and the Ebola epidemic of 2014 have left the Ministry of Education with little capacity to run a national school system.
Schoolgirls walking in Karnataka, India.
Disadvantage and Participation Accountability Processes: Theory and Evidence from School Development and Management Committees in Karnataka, India
Principal Investigator: Sayantan Ghosal.

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