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mSTAR/Liberia Mobile Salary Payment Factsheet
July 2016 — In July 2016, mSTAR partnered with the Government of Liberia to roll out the first mobile salary payments to 67 teachers in Nimba County, Liberia. This fact sheet describes the initial rollout, where teachers with moderate to no mobile money experience successfully received salaries via their mobile devices. The mobile money payment…
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Understanding the Potential Role of Mobile Money in Civil Servant Payments in Liberia: A Contextual Analysis
October 2016 — This document describes factors in Liberia that might be barriers or facilitators to implementation of a mobile money payment system for government health care workers. The data from this report are drawn from myriad sources, including an mSTAR ethnographic study of health care workers’ interactions with the current payment system, reports from…
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Understanding Liberian Health Care Worker Interactions with Payment Systems, Mobile Phones, and Financial Behavior: An Ethnographic Study
November 2016 — This study describes the experiences and attitudes of health care workers in Liberia regarding mobile phone use and salary disbursement. Findings will inform implementation of an electronic payment system for government health care workers. Given the complexity of the Liberian payment system, a sound understanding of current attitudes and norms about mobile…
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Top 10 Questions about the Development Assets and Student Success Pilot Program in El Salvador
May 2016 — This report shares the methodology, results and lessons learned in the Development Assets and Student Success Pilot Program in El Salvador, which was conducted as part of the Education for Children and Youth Program (ECYP) funded by the U.S. Agency for International Development. The pilot program introduced two complementary interventions — positive…
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A Holistic Approach to Preparing Youth for Success: Programa Para O Futuro
August 2017 — Programa para o Futuro is a holistic youth development project that uses a positive youth development approach and evidence to help young people acquire skills that lead to improved livelihoods, health, and civic engagement. This includes giving them the opportunity to learn valuable socioemotional skills, make decisions, build positive relationships, contribute to…
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The FHI 360 Approach to Preventing Violent Extremism (fact sheet)
June 2018 — This fact sheet presents methodologies and tools that FHI 360 has developed in working with civil society actors on the front lines of efforts to better understand, prevent and counter violent extremism in their countries and communities. The starting point for FHI 360 is to engage young people and their communities, including…
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Playtime is Science
2010 — Playtime is Science is an early childhood, pre-K through grade 3, inquiry-based science program that encourages girls and children from other underrepresented groups to think of themselves as scientists. The program is unique in its focus on physical science, strong family involvement and accessibility to students with disabilities. Playtime is Science program materials…
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Guiding Principles for Building Youth Soft Skills among Adolescents and Young Adults
June 2017 — A growing international evidence base across a wide range of disciplines points to the central importance of soft and life skills for empowering youth to flourish and achieve their goals. Despite frequent calls to focus programming and research on soft skills, little attention has been placed on understanding how these skills are…
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Zimbabwe HIV Care and Treatment Project Baseline Assessment Report 2016
March 2017 — The Zimbabwe HIV Care and Treatment (ZHCT) project conducted a baseline assessment of FHI 360’s work with the Government of Zimbabwe that identified HIV service gaps and measures to reduce patient attrition rates. This was a descriptive study design using mixed quantitative and qualitative methods to describe the perspectives of stakeholders on…