Resource Type: Research paper or report

  • WASHplus End of Project Report: What We Did and Why It Matters

    July 2016 — The WASHplus end of project report provides a summary of the key cross-cutting themes from this six-year (2010–2016) project. WASHplus supported healthy households and communities by developing and delivering interventions that improved water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) and household air pollution. The project used at-scale programming approaches to reduce diarrheal diseases and…

  • A Roadmap for the Development of Labor Market Information Systems

    August 2016 — This study provides a new lens for understanding labor market information systems (LMIS) and offers guidance for the focus and sequencing of investments in their development. We argue that traditional technical assistance to support LMIS in Africa has neither succeeded in improving the functioning of labor markets nor achieved sustainability of the systems…

  • Looking through the Lens of Adolescent Development to Strengthen Secondary Education

    February 2016 — This paper emphasizes the importance of connecting our understanding of secondary education with the realities of adolescent development in the context of the developing world. It aims to provide a starting point and guidance to policymakers, school administrators and educators to reconceptualize secondary education, especially in developing countries, by incorporating our understanding of how…

  • Integrated Development: A Theory of Change

    2015 — FHI 360 believes that by having a deeper understanding of the interrelated challenges faced by communities and people, and by designing customized responses to address the multiple aspects of their lives, global development efforts have the potential to be more impactful. This document outlines our thinking behind this theory and seeks to answer the question,…

  • Economic Evaluation Comparing Center-Based Compulsory Drug Rehabilitation (CCT) with Community-Based Methadone Maintenance Treatment (MMT) in Hai Phong City, Vietnam (English, Vietnamese)

    July 2015 — This report, prepared for the Government of Vietnam, details the first economic evaluation comparing the effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of the two dominant drug dependence treatment approaches in Vietnam: compulsory center-based rehabilitation (CCT) and voluntary community-based methadone maintenance treatment (MMT) in Hai Phong City, Vietnam. Study findings showed that MMT is both more effective and…

  • Opportunities for Expanded HIV Treatment as Prevention: Results from Ho Chi Minh City Pre-ART Viral Load Assessment

    December 2014 — The USAID/Sustainable Management of the HIV/AIDS Response and Transition to Technical Assistance (SMART TA) program worked with local stakeholders to conduct a study on pre-antiretroviral treatment (ART) patients in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. The study sought to identify criteria to be used in targeting combination prevention services, including treatment as prevention, to HIV-positive…

  • Building the Capacity of Liberia’s Ministry of Education to Harness the Power of Information

    March 2015 — After 14 years of civil wars, Liberia’s education system was decimated. The conflict caused massive destruction to the country’s infrastructure and civil systems, making it difficult for the government to deliver basic services, including education.  One of the challenges Liberia faces to rebuilding its education system is a lack of data about schools and…

  • Workforce Connections: Key ”Soft Skills” that Foster Youth Workforce Success: Toward a Consensus Across Fields

    June 2015 —  “Soft skills,” those attributes that allow individuals to successfully navigate their work environments, are centrally important for human capital development and workforce success. Nevertheless, a soft skills “gap” is noted by many employers around the world, who report that job candidates lack the soft skills needed to fill available positions.  This report helps bring…

  • Vulnerability Assessment Methods

    May 2014 — This brief reviews different methods of assessing vulnerability to inform the development of economic strengthening programs. Vulnerability Assessment Methodologies: A Review of the Literature March 2014 — This literature review provides an overview of the tools and methods used to measure vulnerability as it pertains to development interventions focused on economic strengthening. Included publications refer to…

  • Lessons Learned From Namibia’s Clinic-to-Community Referral Networks

    December 2014 — In December 2014, the LIFT project conducted an assessment of networks in Namibia to distill lessons learned from both the process used by LIFT in establishing the networks and the functionality of the system put in place after four to six months of implementation. Namibia has been among the first tier of countries in…

FHI 360
Powered by  GDPR Cookie Compliance (opens in a new tab)
Privacy overview

This website uses cookies so that we can provide you with the best user experience possible. Cookie information is stored in your browser and performs functions such as recognising you when you return to our website and helping our team to understand which sections of the website you find most interesting and useful.