Programs

Through its different research programs, PEP mobilizes and strengthens local research capacity to produce high-quality, reliable evidence for strategic and pro-poor development. Find out more about the PEP approach, and core research themes.

Ongoing PEP programs are funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Co-Impact, le Fond d'Innovation pour le Développement (FID), Global Affairs Canada (GAC), the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, Canada’s International Development Research Centre (IDRC), and the Mastercard Foundation.

Ongoing programs

Farmer spraying rice field

Club of Rome

Earth4All National Engagement Strategy for Kenya
People installing solar panels

IDRC

Leveraging renewable energy MSMEs for sustainable agriculture in SSA and SEA
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Center for Global Development

MDB financing for green energy transitions in the Global South
People working collaboratively on computer

Global Affairs Canada

Learning and Knowledge Management Project (LKMP)
children in a classroom

Global Education Analytics Institute

Africa Fellows in Education Program (AFEP)
solar panels

EU Horizon Europe Programme

Sustainability Performances, Evidence and Scenarios (SPES)
Smiling woman sitting at desk in front of computer

IDRC

Gender Equality and Inclusion (GEI) online training
Women selling vegetables in market

Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

Social gender norms and women's resilience under income shocks
Ethiopia health care

Fund for Innovation in Development

Addressing the challenge of equitable access to quality health care in Ethiopia
Woman selling corn at a market in Ghana

IDRC

Impact of the war in Ukraine on African economies
Kenyan women's group

Hewlett Foundation

Promoting women’s economic empowerment through macro-level policy solutions in Africa
Youth working in Uganda

Mastercard Foundation

What works for youth employment in Africa
Impact evaluation field work in Benin

Hewlett Foundation

For Autonomous Local Impact Evaluations for Policymaking in Africa
Kenya field data collection

Hewlett Foundation

Strengthening Impact Evaluation Capacities for Development in Africa
Girl apprenticeship in Africa

IDRC-GROW

Training and incentives to improve women's labour market outcomes in Kenya

Completed programs

Woman working in rice paddy

Co-Impact

Context-specific barriers to women's participation in decent work
Climate change Africa women

Global Affairs Canada

Climate change in Africa: Impact and responses for women and girls
Girl student in COVID

IDRC

COVID-19 Responses for Equity (CORE)
Rapid response COVID

PEP

Rapid Response to the COVID pandemic
PAGE

IDRC - UK Aid

Policy Analysis on Growth and Employment - PAGE
PIERI researchers

Hewlett

Impact Evaluation Mentoring for Governments in East and West Africa
Avocado farmers

PRESM

Productive Employment in Segmented Markets of fresh produce
Woman farming in Benin

STAARS

Structural Transformation of African Agriculture and Rural Spaces
People working on a pipeline in Chad

Chad-UNDP

Institutionalizing capacity for CGE modeling in Chad
Women working in fields

AGRODEP

African Growth Development Policy Modeling Consortium
Road construction Pakistan

AusAID

Simulating the distributive impacts of different growth strategies in Asia
Slum in the Philippines

AusAID-IDRC-IFPRI-UNICEF

A local perspective on the poverty impacts of the (2008) global financial crisis
Children in Burkina Faso

UNICEF

Child welfare in Burkina Faso: Analyzing the impacts of fiscal policy and social spending
Child farmers in Uganda

UNICEF

Child poverty in Uganda: A situational analysis
Children in rural Burkina Faso

UNICEF

The impacts of the global financial crisis on children in West and Central Africa
Three children doing homework outside on an upturned crate

PEP-UNICEF

Partnership agreement to support UNICEF's social policy/protection work in the MENA region
Women in Mali collecting water

CEDLAS-PEP-UNICEF

Impact evaluation of an innovative approach to improve sanitation practices in rural Mali
Training for PEP researchers

PEP-UNDP

Strengthening local capacities for Poverty and Social Impact Analysis in developing countries
Teen pregnancy

PEP-IADB

Impact assessment of interventions to reduce teenage child bearing in Latin America

FUNDED BY

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European Union
Fonds d'innovation pour le Développement
Global Education Analytics Institute