devinitorg/iati-policy-markers huggingface dataset:
IGC 2 for Governance Institutions (Sierra Leone) Sierra Leone faces many challenges with decentralization and provision of basic public goods.
This makes collective action among citizens important, either to fund local public goods, or for
citizens organizing demands to the state. As a result, local leaders are key to help people solve
these problems. But as in many countries in sub-Saharan Africa, Sierra Leone has both
traditional and democratically elected leaders co-existing and there is a conflict between
responsibilities and scope of work between local councils and traditional authorities. One key
dimension in which this conflict occurs is tax collection, as traditional leaders have been
historically responsible for collecting taxes but, since the decentralization reforms of 2005, local
councils were also endowed with the capacity to collect own source revenues to fund their
operations. Nonetheless, local councils’ capacity to self-finance their operations is very limited,
and thus they conflict with traditional authorities who are better positioned to mobilize resources
from citizens.
This study aims to compare these two types of leaders in terms of how they provide incentives for
people to cooperate. It will use an artefactual field experiment where participants from rural
communities in Sierra Leone encounter a collective action problem embedded in a real project
run by an NGO. Specifically, participants will take part in a community activity where they will
have to decide to ether keep money for themselves or contribute to a community project
benefiting many people. Participants will be randomly assigned to a situation where either their
local chief or their local councilor will help the NGO by incentivizing contributions from
participants. Through this, the study will compare leaders within communities and their
effectiveness in raising contributions
Managers, Motivation, and Worker Productivity: Evidence from Survey Enumerators (Uganda) How do supervisors impact the performance of workers under their management? In large companies (particularly in manufacturing and service sectors) the role of direct supervisors is often distinct from organization-wide policies on wage structure (e.g., pay-for-performance) and recruitment. Instead, supervisors rely on non-monetary mechanisms within the firm such as worker motivation and support to incentivize better performance (Lazear et al., 2015). The role of these managerial inputs may be especially salient for firms in developing countries that have limited recourse to formal incentives (e.g., enforceable employment contracts). Whereas economists have extensively studied the effect of managers on performance (e.g., Bertrand & Schoar, 2003), the paucity of granular data on employee-level output and supervision has limited a deeper exploration of how these effects take place. In this project, I focus on unpacking the ‘manager fixed effect’ or a supervisor’s value-added component in employee performance through two distinct channels: monitoring and motivation. Causal evidence on the impact of supervision on employee performance through these channels can inform organizations’ investment decisions in frontline supervision, as well as personnel policies to maximize workplace productivity. Moreover, I plan to study this question by partnering with a large survey research company in Uganda. That is, I study the role of supervisory inputs for the output of survey enumerators in primary data collection activities. This has the added advantage of furthering our understanding of how investments in supervision translate into better quality data for research purposes. Consequently, outputs from this study could help to inform personnel training and organization in both private data collection companies (including the multinational company I partner with) and public statistical agencies such as the Uganda Bureau of Statistics. In the remainder of this note, I refer to enumerators as ‘employees’ and their team leaders as ‘supervisors’ to highlight lessons from the proposed project for both research and personnel management more broadly.
Evidence to Impact in Education Renewal In Rwanda, IPA’s work under the WWH pilot will contribute to our shared goal of building a cultureof evidence-based decision making within the Rwanda Ministry of Education (MINEDUC). We willcontinue investing in the Ministry's data architecture, building partnerships that will leveragecollaborations with Rwandan and international researchers, building policy-analytic capacitywithin MINEDUC, and supporting MINEDUC to create iterative feedback loops between policydesign, evaluation, and adaptation
In Kenya, under the WWH pilot, IPA will continue to catalyze the institutionalization of data and evidence-based policymakingwithin the education ecosystem. IPA will continue collaborating withpartners to support the MoE’s establishment of the Evidence Hub, share relevant existing evidenceto inform decision-making, and facilitate cross-country learning exchanges. Ultimately, we hope thatthese activities will lead to the institutionalization of evidence-based decision making with educationpolicymakers, especially targeting education reforms aimed at improving foundational learning leve
IGC for SL Elections 2023 (Sierra Leone) This project consists of a pilot where we plan to explore potential solutions to this challenge with 
our partners in government (from both national and local levels) and civil society in connection 
with the 2023 Local Council Elections in Sierra Leone. We are applying for funding to develop 
and pilot an initiative that would: i) identify, screen, and encourage high quality potential 
candidates to enter politics; and ii) share information about these potential candidates with 
political parties and/or civil society organizations working to enhance the electoral process. This 
will be done through conducting different surveys with different groups, including voters, 
delegates, party officials, and aspirants to better understand the selection process (in particular 
party internal processes for appointing aspirants to candidates), barriers faced by citizens wanting  to become aspirants, attributes preferred by voters, and attributes by delegates and party rank. The intention is to increase the information available to all party members (national and local) to make the best decisions on the basis of qualifications and representation of aspirants. The pilot grant would specifically support: i) piloting variants of the proposed intervention in several communities; ii) collecting data on the current cohort of elected 
Local Councillors; and iii) hiring a research manager based in-country to oversee activities. 
This project is falls under the State theme, and it is aligned with the IGC research programme on 
state effectiveness. In particular, this project falls under the two sub topics:
A. Representative and effective political leaders
B. State Accountability
Creating comparative advantage: identifying information and technology constraints facing SMEs in
supplying large firms Across a number of developing countries, governments are looking for innovative ways to promote  competitive local production. There is potential for large (exporting/foreign) firms to have significant  positive effects on the performance of domestic suppliers by sharing ideas, skills and technology  (Javorcik, 2004; Havranek and Irsova, 2011; Alfaro-Urena et al., 2019). 
There have been a number of studies examining different constraints to SME competitiveness that  limit their ability to supply larger firms, including access to finance, lack of capital, limited skills, limited scale of production, and poor quality of products (Bassi et al., 2020; FSDU, 2018; Gereffi and Fernandez-Stark, 2016; Hjort et al., 2020; von Hagen, 2011). Less well-understood is the information frictions that these SMEs face that mean large buyers often resort to using international suppliers at the cost of creating domestic supplier chains. 
We aim to inform the design of government supplier development programs to address these 
constraints by exploring the role of four distinct information constraints to supplier linkages in 
Rwanda: 
I. Information frictions about the existence of and prices offered by SME suppliers (e.g., 
buyers might not be aware of the local suppliers due to search costs) 
II. Information frictions about the product quality of SME suppliers (e.g., buyers might be 
unsure about the quality of inputs made by local suppliers due to lack of credible 
certification); 
III. Information frictions about the reliability and management quality of SME suppliers (e.g., 
buyers might be unsure of whether they can trust local suppliers to deliver on time) 
IV. Information frictions on the part of suppliers about the exact requirements of larger buyers 
(e.g., particular quality standards that need to be met) 
We aim to answer these questions through a two-phased approach: first, we will conduct a 
diagnostic phase, where the research team will use rich administrative tax data, firms’ surveys and product quality testing to understand which of the above constraints are most pressing in Rwanda and to design a policy relevant intervention to alleviate these constraints. In the second phase, we will evaluate this intervention using a large-scale RCT. The intervention will involve the creation of a matching platform where large buyers can access information on local suppliers and vice versa.  Information would be provided on not only buyer demands and the existence and contact details ofsuppliers, but also on the quality of supplier products and reliability in delivery (with these components randomized to separately identify each constraint.
National Apprenticeship Programme Evaluation 10-year follow-up (Ghana) This project requests gap funding to complete data collection on 3,400 young people who applied to gain access to a traditional apprenticeship in Ghana via a government placement program in 2012.
The 10-year follow-up survey is already 80% funded (by J-PAL JOI) so we are requesting that IGC fund the final 500 or so surveys. The data collection effort was launched in July of 2022 and we have achieved an 86% tracking rate (so far) in the six districts (of 32 sample districts around the country) that constituted the first wave of data collection. Additional overlapping survey waves have since been launched in conjunction with final mop-ups in these initial districts.
The original study was a collaboration with the Council for Technical and Vocational Education and
Training (COTVET, now CTVET) and was heavily informed by their research interests (in skills
development, testing, and heterogeneity across training firms) and insights (about ex-post
monopsony power in training firms and long training periods). Three nested sister studies
randomized (1) access to the program, (2) (conditional on preferences) firm placement among treatment applicants, and (3) a skills-test based incentive for trainers (among women who took up).
In 2017, we conducted a 5-year follow-up and found that (1) training increased self-employment earnings, (2) training decreased wage-employment earnings by more than the increase in self-employment earnings, and (3) training with a higher-quality firm increased self-employment earnings. In the 10-year follow-up, we hope to (1) track earnings trajectories in the longer-run as businesses formed by trainees mature, and (2) explore (random) heterogeneity by training firm characteristics to understand "intergenerational" firm productivity in the newly created firms formed by graduating apprentices.
Managers, Motivation, and Worker Productivity: Evidence from Survey Enumerators (Uganda) How do supervisors impact the performance of workers under their management? In large
companies (particularly in manufacturing and service sectors) the role of direct supervisors is often
distinct from organization-wide policies on wage structure (e.g., pay-for-performance) and
recruitment. Instead, supervisors rely on non-monetary mechanisms within the firm such as worker
motivation and support to incentivize better performance (Lazear et al., 2015). The role of these
managerial inputs may be especially salient for firms in developing countries that have limited
recourse to formal incentives (e.g., enforceable employment contracts). Whereas economists have
extensively studied the effect of managers on performance (e.g., Bertrand & Schoar, 2003), the
paucity of granular data on employee-level output and supervision has limited a deeper exploration
of how these effects take place. 
In this project, I focus on unpacking the ‘manager fixed effect’ or a supervisor’s value-added
component in employee performance through two distinct channels: monitoring and motivation.
Causal evidence on the impact of supervision on employee performance through these channels can
inform organizations’ investment decisions in frontline supervision, as well as personnel policies to
maximize workplace productivity. Moreover, I plan to study this question by partnering with a large
survey research company in Uganda. That is, I study the role of supervisory inputs for the output of
survey enumerators in primary data collection activities. This has the added advantage of furthering
our understanding of how investments in supervision translate into better quality data for research
purposes. Consequently, outputs from this study could help to inform personnel training and
organization in both private data collection companies (including the multinational company I
partner with) and public statistical agencies such as the Uganda Bureau of Statistics. In the
remainder of this note, I refer to enumerators as ‘employees’ and their team leaders as ‘supervisors’
to highlight lessons from the proposed project for both research and personnel management more
broadly.
Agricultural Development: Uplands Food Security Project Agricultural Development: Uplands Food Security Project
Programme Loan: Sericulture Development Project Programme Loan: Sericulture Development Project
Agricultural Development: Crop and Livestock Rehabilitation Project Agricultural Development: Crop and Livestock Rehabilitation Project
Pakistan - HIV - Ministry of National Health Services, Regulations and Coordination Pakistan - HIV - Ministry of National Health Services, Regulations and Coordination.
Expanding coverage of Malaria control interventions in 38 highly endemic districts of Pakistan Pakistan - Malaria - Save the Children Federation, Inc. - STC HQ.
Consolidating malaria control interventions to reduce incidence in high endemic districts of Pakistan Pakistan - Malaria - Directorate of Malaria Control, Ministry of National Health Services, Regulations and Coordination of Pakistan - DoMC/CMU Malaria.  This program has the following goals: An estimated reduction in the reported malaria incidence of 10% at the national level compared with 2019. The objectives of this program are: To strengthen malaria programme management, to ensure that it is operating optimally at all levels in all target districts by 2023.  To assure and sustain > 80% coverage for the provision of prompt and reliable malaria diagnosis and treatment services in public and private health facilities and community level as well in target districts by 2023.  To ensure universal coverage of preventive measures in particular LLINs, appropriate to local transmission patterns and population characteristics, to reduce malaria transmission, incidence and prevalence by 20% in target districts by 2023.  To strengthen disease and entomological surveillance, to efficiently gather, use and disseminate data in all target districts by 2023.  To improve timely alert generation, detection and rapid response capability to cope with emergency situations for malaria epidemics in all target districts by 2023.  To ensure delivery of an appropriate package of malaria control interventions to hard-to-reach at-risk population groups and communities in all target districts by 2023
Consolidating malaria control interventions to reduce incidence in high endemic districts of Pakistan Pakistan - Malaria - Indus Hospital & Health Network - TIH.  This program has the following goals: An estimated reduction in the reported malaria incidence of 30% at the national level compared with 2019.. The objectives of this program are: To assure and sustain > 80% coverage for the provision of prompt and reliable malaria diagnosis and treatment services in public and private health facilities, and community level in target districts by 2026..  To ensure universal coverage of preventive measures in particular insecticide treated nets (ITNs), appropriate to local transmission patterns and population characteristics, to reduce malaria transmission, incidence and prevalence by 20% in target districts by 2026..  To strengthen disease and entomological surveillance, to efficiently gather, use and disseminate data in all target districts by 2026..  To enhance timely alert generation, detection and rapid response capability at district, provincial and national levels to cope with emergency situations for malaria epidemics in all target districts by 2026..  To ensure delivery of an appropriate package of malaria control interventions to hard-to-reach at-risk population groups and communities in all target districts by 2026.
Contribution toward achieving the targets of National Strategic Plan for Tuberculosis prevention, care and control in Pakistan Pakistan - Tuberculosis - Mercy Corps - MC.  This program has the following goals: Contribute to achieving the goal of the national strategy to control TB in Pakistan which is to reduce by 50% the prevalence of TB by 2025 in comparison to 2011.  Contribute towards decreasing the prevalence, by at least 5% per year from 2018 onwards, the prevalence of MDR-TB among TB patients who have never received any TB treament. The objectives of this program are: To increase TB case notification (all forms) from 70% of estimated  incident cases in 2014-15 to 85% of estimated incident cases by 2020 while maintaining treatment success rate at 91%.  To enhance MDR-TB enrollment from 18% of estimated cases in 2014-15 to 33% of estimated by 2020.  To increase the number of TB patients who are screened for HIV infection from 3% in 2014-15  to 10% by 2020
Pakistan - Tuberculosis - National TB Control Programme Pakistan Pakistan - Tuberculosis - National TB Control Programme Pakistan - NTP.
Pakistan - Tuberculosis - Mercy Corps Pakistan - Tuberculosis - Mercy Corps - MC.
Pakistan - Tuberculosis - Ministry of National Health Services, Regulations and Coordination Pakistan - Tuberculosis - Ministry of National Health Services, Regulations and Coordination.
Pakistan - Tuberculosis - Greenstar Social Marketing Pakistan (Guarantee) Limited Pakistan - Tuberculosis - Greenstar Social Marketing Pakistan (Guarantee) Limited.
Contribution toward achieving the targets of National Strategic Plan for Tuberculosis prevention, care and control in Pakistan Pakistan - Tuberculosis - National TB Control Programme Pakistan - NTP.  This program has the following goals: Contribute to achieving the goal of the national strategy to control TB in Pakistan which is to reduce by 50% the prevalence of TB by 2025 in comparison to 2011.  Contribute towards decreasing the prevalence, by at least 5% per year from 2018 onwards, the prevalence of MDR-TB among TB patients who have never received any TB treament. The objectives of this program are: To increase TB case notification (all forms) from 70% of estimated  incident cases in 2014-15 to 85% of estimated incident cases by 2020 while maintaining treatment success rate at 91%.  To enhance MDR-TB enrollment from 18% of estimated cases in 2014-15 to 33% of estimated by 2020.  To increase the number of TB patients who are screened for HIV infection from 3% in 2014-15  to 10% by 2020
Pakistan - Malaria - Ministry of National Health Services, Regulations and Coordination Pakistan - Malaria - Ministry of National Health Services, Regulations and Coordination.
Accelerated HIV Response through active prevention, linking to care and retention interventions for PWID and their partners in Pakistan Pakistan - HIV - Nai Zindagi - NZ.  This program has the following goals: To address low prevention and testing programme coverage among key populations by scaling up community-based interventions.  To address barriers to treatment access and initiation by phased introduction of treatment for all, devolving treatment maintenance services and stigma and discrimination training for health care workers.  To strengthen the national M&E system to improve cascade monitoring.  To address the need for treatment initiation support for PWID in the absence of an OST programme. The objectives of this program are: To increase coverage of the prevention services for MSM by 39%  (of PSE) by 2023 from the 2019 baseline.  To increase coverage of the prevention services for FSW (of PSE) by 44%  by 2023 from the 2019 baseline.  To increase coverage of the prevention services for TG (of PSE) by 56%  by 2023 from the 2019 baseline.  To increase coverage of the prevention services for PWIDs (of PSE) 56%  by 2023 from the 2019 baseline.  To increase coverage of the treatment services for PLHIV by 35% (of the estimated PLHIV) by 2023 from the 2019 baseline
Accelerated response to HIV through effective prevention, treatment, care and support interventions for Key Populations in Pakistan Pakistan - HIV - Ministry of National Health Services, Regulations and Coordination of Pakistan - NACP.  This program has the following goals: To address low prevention and testing programme coverage among key populations by scaling up community-based interventions.  To address barriers to treatment access and initiation by phased introduction of treatment for all, devolving treatment maintenance services and stigma and discrimination training for health care workers.  To strengthen the national M&E system to improve cascade monitoring.  To address the need for treatment initiation support for PWID in the absence of an OST programme.  To address the particular challenges faced by PWID with regard to treatment adherence by providing a continuum of care and support. The objectives of this program are: To increase coverage of the prevention services for MSM by 15% from 2016 to 2020.  To increase coverage of the prevention services  for TG by 27% from 2016 to 2020.  To increase coverage of the prevention services from  for FSW by 7% from 2016 to  2020.  To increase coverage of the treatment services for PLHA by 19% from 2016 to 2020.  To increase coverage of the prevention services for PWID by 57% from 2016 to 2020
Accelerated response to HIV through effective prevention, treatment, care and support interventions for Key Populations and surveillance in high risks areas Pakistan - HIV - United Nations Development Programme - UNDP Pakistan.  This program has the following goals: To address low prevention and testing programme coverage among key populations by scaling up community-based interventions.  To address barriers to treatment access and initiation by phased introduction of treatment for all, devolving treatment maintenance services and stigma and discrimination training for health care workers.  To strengthen the national M&E system to improve cascade monitoring.  To address the need for treatment initiation support for PWID in the absence of an OST programme. The objectives of this program are: To increase coverage of the prevention services for MSM by 39%  (of PSE) by 2023 from the 2019 baseline.  To increase coverage of the prevention services for FSW (of PSE) by 44%  by 2023 from the 2019 baseline.  To increase coverage of the prevention services for TG (of PSE) by 56%  by 2023 from the 2019 baseline.  To increase coverage of the prevention services for PWIDs (of PSE) 56%  by 2023 from the 2019 baseline.  To increase coverage of the treatment services for PLHIV by 35% (of the estimated PLHIV) by 2023 from the 2019 baseline