Featured Projects
View a sampling of PRESTO's projects below. Our portfolio includes a wide-range of project types and collaborators, so please reach out to us if you're interested in learning more.
Stawisha Maisha Impact Evaluation: Baseline Report
PRESTO partnered with TASAF, UNICEF Tanzania, EDI Global, and Empathea Africa to conduct a baseline assessment for the Stawisha Maisha impact evaluation. This cash plus programme in Tanzania is aimed at improving infant and young child feeding practices and nutritional status.
TRANSFORM Curriculum Revision
Full review and revision of TRANSFORM social protection course modules ensuring the integration of gender-responsive and disability-inclusive best practices into eight modules: legal framework, administration, financing & financial management, selection & identification, coordination, governance, monitoring & evaluation, and management information systems & approaches to data integration.
Systematic Review of Cash Plus or Bundled Interventions Targeting Adolescents in Africa to Reduce HIV Risk
We conducted a systematic review to summarize the evidence on bundled interventions combining health and economic strengthening components for adolescents and young people and their effects on HIV/STI incidence and risk factors.
Mapping Gender and Social Protection Data
Conducted a rapid mapping exercise aimed at understanding current efforts of global development agencies in collecting and analysing sex disaggregated data in social protection systems and identifying priority gaps.
Integrating Gender into Household Surveys: Recommendations for National Statistics Offices
Synthesized recommendations for data collection in country-level, household surveys to improve sex-disaggregated data collection and accessibility to reduce gender data gaps on social protection.
Evidence Overview of LEAP and LEAP 1000 impacts in Ghana
The Livelihood Empowerment Against Poverty (LEAP) programme is a cash transfer programme and the flagship social protection programme under Ghana’s National Social Protection Strategy. The report, which summarizes evidence from the evaluations of LEAP and LEAP 1000, was commissioned by UNICEF Ghana and drafted by Policy Research Solutions (PRESTO). Authors included Tia Palermo and Prince Changole.