Continuous learning matters in research. The PRESTO team recently completed a training on Dedoose, strengthening our skills in qualitative and mixed methods data analysis to support stronger evidence for social protection policy.
Have you checked out our evidence brief on the impact of cash transfers on poverty, productivity, and resilience in Africa?
Read the evidence brief: transfer.cpc.unc.edu/wp-content/u...
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This International Women’s Day, we’re highlighting evidence on advancing gender equality. Cash transfers can help improve women’s and girls’ outcomes, reducing poverty and violence while strengthening mental health, agency, and economic opportunity.
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transfer.cpc.unc.edu/wp-content/u...
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PRESTO researcher Tia Palermo co-authored this new study showing that decades after redlining, a racist policy related to housing and mortgages, ended, it continues to negatively affect women's breast cancer survival.
This month, PRESTO’s Maja Gavrilovic spoke at the first Gender-Responsive & Inclusive Social Protection Global Symposium in Bangkok (hosted by UNICEF, with DFAT & FCDO support). She led a skills lab on women’s economic empowerment and presented on inclusive, gender-responsive SP training.
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We’ll be at the Gender-Responsive and Inclusive Social Protection Symposium in Bangkok!
Our Senior Social Protection Specialist, Maja Gavrilovic, is presenting on Women’s Economic Empowerment. If you’re attending, come say hello 👋
#SocialProtection #GenderResponsivePolicy
🗓 Wednesday, December 10
⏰ 2 PM CET / 8 AM EST
💬 Panel: “Investing in child outcomes: what works to keep children resilient, healthy, protected and in learning?”
🔗 Register: wfp-org-conference.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
We’re proud to be participating in the 3rd @wfp.org Global Impact Evaluation Forum 2025! Join the live stream tomorrow for a panel session featuring a presentation from our President, @tiapalermo.bsky.social: wfp-org-conference.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
In recognition of @unwomen.bsky.social’s ‘16 Days of Activism Against Gender-Based Violence’, we highlight the role of cash transfers on gender equality and GBV in Africa. #NoExcuse Read the evidence brief: transfer.cpc.unc.edu/wp-content/u...
Have you checked out our new evidence brief on the impact of cash transfers on poverty, productivity, and resilience in Africa?
See the full summary here (link below to read the shorter brief): transfer.cpc.unc.edu/wp-content/u...
@unicef.org
Overwhelmed by the evidence on the impact of #cashtransfers in Africa? We’ve got you covered! 🆕Transfer Project evidence summaries & briefs, produced by PRESTO w/ @unicef.org, were just released. 🔗 Check out the full list below & click here to find all the PDFs: transfer.cpc.unc.edu/evidence-sum...
PRESTO was proud to co-develop this newly launched @unicef.org evidence brief on social protection and adolescent girls’ empowerment. Check it out here: www.unicef.org/media/172831...
Meet our guests: 🎙️ Rema Hanna, Jeffrey Cheah Professor of Southeast-Asia Studies, Harvard Kennedy School 🎙️ Tia Palermo @tiapalermo.bsky.social, President at @prestopolicy.bsky.social
▶️ Tune in: tinyurl.com/SPpodcast54
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Over two episodes, we will run down some commonly held views and misperceptions about social protection. We’ll review the evidence for and against, with the purpose of debunking ‘myths’ where appropriate. Listen now to Part 1: tinyurl.com/SPpodcast54 +
Is social protection just a handout? Does it discourage work? Or are the systems plagued by fraud? In this episode, we unpack some of the biggest myths surrounding social protection systems and explore the real data behind the rhetoric. +
🎙️ 🎧 New #SPpodcast Episode – Listen now to “Social Protection Myths and Misperceptions Part 1”: tinyurl.com/SPpodcast54 ▶️🎧+
Check out the new @socialprotection.org podcast episode featuring PRESTO’s @tiapalermo.bsky.social!
🎧 Listen here: socialprotection.org/learn/podcas...
We enjoyed the past several weeks in São Tomé and Príncipe co-leading data collection training and fieldwork observation for a study about child health and well-being. This project is a collaboration with Instituto Nacional de Estatística, @gpforeducation.bsky.social @unicef.org and The World Bank.
We had the pleasure of working with an incredible group of researchers at JOOUST and are excited to see how they apply their new skills to advance research in economics, public health, and beyond. #impactevaluation #globalhealth #publichealth #economics #research
Last month, PRESTO’s Tia Palermo co-facilitated an impact evaluation training at Jaramogi Oginga Odinga University of Science and Technology (JOOUST) in Kenya, as part of American Institutes for Research’s P3-Africa training and mentoring program.
Our interdisciplinary team of experts—spanning public policy, economics, and public health—specializes in turning complex data into actionable insights
for decision-makers. #WBE #MWBE #NYBusiness
We’re thrilled to announce that Policy Research Solutions LLC (PRESTO) is now certified by New York State as a women-owned business! We are proud to be a women-led organization with a
strong track record in policy research, evaluation, survey design, data analysis, and capacity development.
She presented how adverse childhood events influence program impacts of a cash plus intervention on youth productive outcomes in Tanzania, as part of a study done in collaboration with PRESTO under AIR’s P3 mentoring program.
#uniceftanzania #cashplus #TransferProject #Tanzania #ESAAfrica25
Today Dr. Monica Kauky, University of Dar es Salaam, presented at the 2025 Economic Science Association Africa regional conference in Nairobi.
This research was conducted jointly with PRESTO researcher @tiapalermo.bsky.social & co-authors at @unicef.org Innocenti, under @airinforms.bsky.social P3 Mentoring program.
Kicking off an exciting week at the 2025 Africa Evidence Summit! Dr. Dickson Wandeda (University of Nairobi) presented long-term impacts of Ghana’s LEAP 1000 cash transfer on insurance uptake, morbidity & health seeking.
#AES2025 #cashtransfers #TransferProject
