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

People installing solar panels

IDRC

Leveraging renewable energy MSMEs for sustainable agriculture in SSA and SEA

People working collaboratively on computer

Global Affairs Canada

Learning and Knowledge Management Project (LKMP)

children in a classroom

Yidan Prize

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

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

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

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 student in COVID

IDRC

COVID-19 Responses for Equity (CORE)

Girl apprenticeship in Africa

IDRC-GROW

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

Completed programs

PAGE

IDRC - UK Aid

Policy Analysis on Growth and Employment - PAGE

Rapid response COVID

PEP

Rapid Response to the COVID pandemic

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

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