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Fair Futures
Effective climate action isn’t just about mitigating threats. It’s also about advancing global environmental justice, renewable energy resources, and economic opportunity to create fair, resilient, sustainable, and secure societies.
Industry Insights
Shelter from the Storm: Addressing the Dual Crisis of Extreme Weather and Homelessness
Homeless response systems need support to strengthen their resilience to extreme weather shocks and the disproportionate harm that extreme weather has on people experiencing homelessness.
Building Climate Resilience Through Private Sector Partnerships
The Partnership for Climate Action, led by USAID CACCI, helps the private sector contribute to climate resilience through investment and innovation.
A Guide to College Transition for Sickle Cell Warriors
HRSA’s Hemoglobinopathies National Coordinating Center guide helps young people with sickle cell disease plan for their healthcare transition at college.
Nature Can Be a Solution to Climate Adaptation
Several years ago, my family took in a young man and his elderly mother after a flood destroyed their home. Eleven inches of rain had fallen in two days on tiny Painesville, Ohio, a community of 20,000 not far from Lake Erie. The Grand River had swollen to nine times its size and spilled into a row of low-income condominiums. Floodwater pushed past first-floor ceilings, in some cases rising to 17 feet.
Young Adult Louisville Income for Transformation! Final Report
A study of Louisville, KY’s guaranteed income pilot found financial stability, more stable and supportive housing, and increased goal setting for participants.
How to Tackle Contaminants and Make Drinking Water Safer
Abt’s expertise with PFAS, lead, and perchlorate enables us to assess health risks, technology effectiveness, and health benefits of water treatment options.
Kathleen Flanagan
Demystifying A.I.: A Tool for Social Impact
Artificial intelligence (AI) is reshaping how we live, work, and interact with technology. As AI’s capabilities expand, so do its ethical and societal implications. In this master class, Dr. Nora Connor, Abt Global’s director of data science and AI, explores how AI evolved, where it can go wrong, and how we can ensure its use for good.
Tackling Antimicrobial Resistance: Integration and Systems Strengthening
The Blue Pacific: Ocean of Possibilities
Small Island Developing States need investments in innovative, nature-based, sustainable interventions to mitigate the effects of climate change.
Healthcare Bench Expands at Abt
Abt’s healthcare team continues to grow. Meet some of our staff who bring a wealth of experience and perspectives to our work.
Housing Security & the Evolution of Vouchers and Rental Assistance in the U.S.
Pioneers of the research that established housing choice vouchers reflect on the program today and rental assistance for today’s housing affordability crisis.
Engaging Partners for Equitable and Inclusive Economic Growth
JPMorgan Chase Challenge grantees use varied approaches to engage people and organizations to guide and accelerate achievement of their work toward equitable and inclusive economic growth.
Embrace Mothers Birmingham Guaranteed Income Pilot Final Report
This report shares findings from Embrace Mothers, a guaranteed income pilot program in Birmingham, AL, that gave single mothers $375 for 12-months.
Attracting and Deploying State and Federal Funding for Equitable Community Development: A JPMC PRO Year 5 Thematic Report
The year 5 JPMC PRO Neighborhoods report offers ways to attract and deploy state and federal funding for equitable community development.
Abt and Industry
KOMPAK Strengthened Delivery of Core Services
KOMPAK implemented a local-level development initiative to improve basic services and economic opportunities for poor and vulnerable Indonesians.
Alexandria Recurring Income for Success and Equity (ARISE)
Rising income inequality has left many residents of Alexandria, VA, struggling to make ends meet, including many who are working. To determine how best to support them, the city of Alexandria launched a pilot to provide select residents who earn less…
Uncovering Barriers in Employment to Expand Workforce Access
Racial bias can be present in any step of the employment process. That includes how jobs are advertised, applications are screened, tasks and work hours are assigned, mentoring is offered, compensation is set, and retention and promotion decisions are…
Evidence-Based Strategies for Stronger US Unemployment Systems
Abts work on UIREP will identify evidence-based insights ,equipping the UI system to address the challenges of the modern day labor market.
Supporting Litigation to Enforce the Clean Water Act
Wyoming Turns to Abt to Create Statewide Housing Plan
The State of Wyoming has turned to Abt Global to help it rapidly and effectively address its housing shortage by creating a statewide action plan.
Increasing Education and Awareness of Heart Valve Disease
The Abt team developed, implemented, and evaluated a communication campaign to increase education about and awareness of heart valve disease among the public, those at risk, and healthcare professionals.
Evaluating the Cell and Gene Therapy Access Model
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services created the Cell and Gene Therapy Access Model to be able to negotiate with manufacturers on behalf of states to make high-cost specialty drugs available to beneficiaries and affordable to State Medicaid Agencies.
Empowering Women and Catalyzing Markets to Improve Nutrition
What influences a women’s ability to provide a balanced diet for herself and her household? In Bangladesh, the complex food system involves agriculture and non-agriculture market actors who affect food availability, access, utilization, and stability…
TSPi Enhances the Efficiency of NOAA NMFS’s Consultation Process
TSPi designed, built, and implemented a central replacement case-management application, the Environmental Consultation Organizer (ECO), to handle submissions for consultations. The consultations can include the initial submission of project blueprints, feedback from NMFS, and more back-and-forth until final approval.
Health Effects from Exposure to Aerosolized Cyanobacterial Toxins
Toxic cyanobacteria blooms, or cyanobacterial harmful algal blooms (CyanoHABs), are becoming increasingly problematic as a result of climate change processes and reduction of oxygen in bodies of water around the globe; Florida has been significantly impacted.
Abt Fosters Finance for Climate Adaptation in the Caribbean
As the climate crisis continues to cause extreme weather, small island states are the hardest hit. For instance, most of the population in the Eastern and Southern Caribbean nations (the ESC) lives in coastal zones vulnerable to rising sea levels and…
Evaluating the Equitable Transition Models Demonstration
Low-income youth and young adults with disabilities (Y&YAD) face a myriad of unique and challenging obstacles to improving their economic well-being, from experiencing homelessness to involvement with the justice system. They along with their families…
Evaluating the Region 16 Comprehensive Center
The U.S. Department of Education has instituted 19 Comprehensive Centers, each committed to advancing educational outcomes for all students. The Centers work primarily with State Education Agencies (SEA) to build capacity in four areas: human,…
Research to Address Homelessness in California
As affordable housing shrinks and poverty persists—particularly in the wake of COVID-19—California continues to face a complex homelessness crisis. To get a true understanding of the scope and nature of the challenge, the California Legislature passed a…
Our Experts in Climate & Environment
Senior Project Director, USAID Comprehensive Action for Climate Change Initiative (CACCI)
Abt Global pioneers research and facilitates solutions to health challenges in the U.S. and around the world, teaming with private and public providers to improve health services and systems.
Industry Insights
Global Health Security: 2024 Year in Review
Abt Global’s top global health security insights from 2024 as we look ahead to 2025.
Reaching the Hardest to Reach: Improving Access and Affordability of Private Sector Health Services for Low-Income Urban Women in Afghanistan
In Afghanistan, Abt Global has worked with USAID to restore access to affordable healthcare by supporting local private health organizations.
Peer Learning Strengthens Health Systems
The experiences of Nepal, Rwanda, and Ethiopia show that twinning and peer learning can strengthen health systems and improve health outcomes.
Shelter from the Storm: Addressing the Dual Crisis of Extreme Weather and Homelessness
Homeless response systems need support to strengthen their resilience to extreme weather shocks and the disproportionate harm that extreme weather has on people experiencing homelessness.
Building Climate Resilience Through Private Sector Partnerships
The Partnership for Climate Action, led by USAID CACCI, helps the private sector contribute to climate resilience through investment and innovation.
How to Make Federal Justice Data More User Friendly
Abt is making federal justice data more user friendly through better visualization and filtering capabilities.
A Guide to College Transition for Sickle Cell Warriors
HRSA’s Hemoglobinopathies National Coordinating Center guide helps young people with sickle cell disease plan for their healthcare transition at college.
How to Tackle Contaminants and Make Drinking Water Safer
Abt’s expertise with PFAS, lead, and perchlorate enables us to assess health risks, technology effectiveness, and health benefits of water treatment options.
Kathleen Flanagan
Tackling Antimicrobial Resistance: Integration and Systems Strengthening
New Research Informs Nursing Home Staffing Minimums in the United States
CMS contracted Abt to conduct the 2022 Nursing Home Staffing Study, and our findings informed the agency’s 2024 staffing policy.
New Research Informs Nursing Home Staffing Minimums in the United States
CMS contracted Abt to conduct the 2022 Nursing Home Staffing Study, and our findings informed the agency’s 2024 staffing policy.
How State-Based Co-Ops Can Improve Primary Care Quality
A new AHRQ guide shares information and guidance for multi-organization groups to provide quality improvement programs for primary healthcare providers.
Healthcare Bench Expands at Abt
Abt’s healthcare team continues to grow. Meet some of our staff who bring a wealth of experience and perspectives to our work.
Local Digital Innovation Improves Family Planning in Uganda
An LHSS grant helped a Ugandan pharmacy expand an e-Pharmacy platform to include more family planning (FP) products and train staff to provide FP counseling.
Abt and Industry
KOMPAK Strengthened Delivery of Core Services
KOMPAK implemented a local-level development initiative to improve basic services and economic opportunities for poor and vulnerable Indonesians.
Evaluation of the ACO REACH Model
As part of a team with NORC, Abt conducted a mixed methods evaluation of the CMS ACO REACH Model and found savings and quality improvements.
Increasing Education and Awareness of Heart Valve Disease
The Abt team developed, implemented, and evaluated a communication campaign to increase education about and awareness of heart valve disease among the public, those at risk, and healthcare professionals.
Evaluating the Cell and Gene Therapy Access Model
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services created the Cell and Gene Therapy Access Model to be able to negotiate with manufacturers on behalf of states to make high-cost specialty drugs available to beneficiaries and affordable to State Medicaid Agencies.
Combatting Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTDs)
Ascend Lot 1 – The UK Government’s Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) set out to invest £100 million in 11 countries in East and Southern Africa and South Asia to advance the impact and sustainability of national programmes tackling NTDs…
Support to AHRQ’s Primary Care Quality Improvement Initiative
Primary care providers face multiple challenges, including underinvestment, workforce shortages, administrative burdens, and high patient volumes. They all are barriers to providing high quality and evidence-informed care.
Health Effects from Exposure to Aerosolized Cyanobacterial Toxins
Toxic cyanobacteria blooms, or cyanobacterial harmful algal blooms (CyanoHABs), are becoming increasingly problematic as a result of climate change processes and reduction of oxygen in bodies of water around the globe; Florida has been significantly impacted.
Technical Assistance for DOJ Grantees Addressing Substance Use
People with a substance use disorder are overrepresented in the justice system, from the arrest phase to incarceration to the risk for recidivism. For example, more than 10 times as many people in prison (58 percent) and sentenced to jail (63 percent)…
Abt-led Namibia Project Exceeds Goal for Male Circumcisions
VMMC is an integral component of the Government of the Republic of Namibia’s prevention approach to ending HIV and AIDS. Despite significant effort, VMMC coverage remains low. The population-based self-reported circumcision rate is 36.4 percent among…
Support to Modernize CMS’s Quality Measures Implementation and Reporting (QMIR) Program
Providing quality care to the more than 100 million Americans served under Medicare, Medicaid and the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) requires robust data collection and analysis of key measures and indicators. As technology has evolved, data…
Reducing Uzbekistan’s Tuberculosis (TB) Burden
Uzbekistan has made great strides in tuberculosis (TB) control. However, the TB burden remains high, and Uzbekistan is in the top 30 countries with cases of multidrug-resistant TB. Across USAID’s reach, cure, prevent, innovate, and sustain strategic…
Measuring the Health & Well-Being of Incarcerated Mothers
There has been little research on women who are pregnant, give birth, or experience a pregnancy termination or loss while in prison or jail. Understanding the health and well-being of pregnant people who are incarcerated at the federal, state, and local…
Modernizing NIH’s Dietary Supplement Label Database (DSLD)
The majority of American adults take dietary supplements, and the market for these products continues to grow. In the U.S., dietary supplements are regulated by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) as food, not as drugs, and do not require approval or…
Combatting Inequities in Behavioral Health
Underserved and historically marginalized communities continue to experience disparities in behavioral health outcomes. Linguistic and cultural barriers, stigmatized pathways to care, lack of culturally adapted evidence-based interventions, and lack of…
CDC / CFA Demographic Social Comorbidities Table (DSCT)
The COVID-19 pandemic made it abundantly clear that the nation’s ability to identify and respond to outbreaks fundamentally relies on access to high-quality and timely data for disease surveillance—especially data about vulnerable populations and…
Our Experts in Health
Senior Project Director, USAID Comprehensive Action for Climate Change Initiative (CACCI)
Resilient Systems
Abt Global pioneers research and facilitates solutions to health challenges in the U.S. and around the world, teaming with private and public providers to improve health services and systems.
Industry Insights
Reaching the Hardest to Reach: Improving Access and Affordability of Private Sector Health Services for Low-Income Urban Women in Afghanistan
In Afghanistan, Abt Global has worked with USAID to restore access to affordable healthcare by supporting local private health organizations.
Peer Learning Strengthens Health Systems
The experiences of Nepal, Rwanda, and Ethiopia show that twinning and peer learning can strengthen health systems and improve health outcomes.
Behind HRSA’s Global HIV/AIDS Coordination
HRSA program provides versatile TA for vast portfolio of HIV/AIDS Programs, furthers bidirectional US-Global learning agenda and local system strengthening for HIV services
Sharing Lessons to End the HIV Epidemic in the U.S. and Abroad
This white paper explains how bi-directional learning from the U.S.-focused RWHAP program and the international PEPFAR program can help end the HIV epidemic.
Beyond Borders and Building Blocks: The Future of Health Systems Strengthening
Explore the Health for All movement and the power of primary care to transform the future health systems in this mini-Master Class with Kelly Saldana.
Funding Model Helps Bangladesh Expand Primary Health Care
Some municipalities fund primary health care services in urban areas of Bangladesh.
Collaboration Improves Health Insurance Coverage in Nigeria
Abt helped two Nigerian agencies collaborate to increase access to health insurance.
Migrants in Colombia Find Kindness and Support in ‘Alliances of Solidarity’
USAID’s Abt-led Local Health System Sustainability (LHSS) project built a Colombian non-governmental organization (NGO)’s capacity to help migrants get health care.
Community Focus: How the DRC Is Reducing TB
The Abt-led USAID Integrated Health Program in the Democratic Republic of Congo is enhancing the ability of communities to combat tuberculosis.
Bolstering Global Health Security in a Changing Climate
Climate change requires adaptive global health security strategies.
Quality Improvement: A Health System Strengthening Priority
Quality improvement methodologies, usually used at the health provider level, could have significant benefits at the health system level.
Abt Helps Local Groups Play Greater Roles in Health Systems
Abt supports new local partners in taking on incrementally larger roles in health system strengthening efforts.
Mining Royalties Fueling Improved Health Coverage in DRC
Abt's work in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) is laying the groundwork for local governments to ramp up decisionmaking and spending on health priorities.
What is One Health? A Frontline Defense Against Zoonotic Diseases
A One Health approach, which includes human, animal, and environmental health, is critical for fighting diseases passed between animals and humans.
SSBH Protocols Saved Lives During Nepal’s COVID-19 Epidemic
USAID’s Abt-led Strengthening Systems for Better Health Activity helped Nepal cope with COVID-19 through the Health Emergency Response program.
Abt and Industry
KOMPAK Strengthened Delivery of Core Services
KOMPAK implemented a local-level development initiative to improve basic services and economic opportunities for poor and vulnerable Indonesians.
Combatting Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTDs)
Ascend Lot 1 – The UK Government’s Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) set out to invest £100 million in 11 countries in East and Southern Africa and South Asia to advance the impact and sustainability of national programmes tackling NTDs…
Reducing Uzbekistan’s Tuberculosis (TB) Burden
Uzbekistan has made great strides in tuberculosis (TB) control. However, the TB burden remains high, and Uzbekistan is in the top 30 countries with cases of multidrug-resistant TB. Across USAID’s reach, cure, prevent, innovate, and sustain strategic…
Expanding Private Health Services for Benin’s Women and Children
Maternal and child mortality remain high in Benin despite improvements over the past two decades. The country has an unmet need for reproductive, maternal, neonatal, and children’s health (RMNCH) services—including malaria prevention for pregnant women,…
HETA: Powering Health with Clean Energy in Africa
Across sub-Saharan Africa, at least 100,000 health facilities lack access to reliable electricity and internet connections. This gap threatens health when clinics can’t keep the lights on for nighttime services or reliably provide patients with oxygen…
Strengthening Service Delivery Systems in Northern Ghana
Ghana has made tremendous gains in improving its citizens’ wellbeing, halving the number of people living in poverty and improving chronic malnutrition rates. Yet Northern Ghana lags, as it is home to 75% of the country’s poorest citizens, and food…
Improving Nutrition for Tajik Mothers and Children
The primary goal of the U.S. Agency for International Development’s Healthy Mother Healthy Baby (HMHB) activity in Tajikistan is to improve the nutritional status of mothers and children under two and reduce their morbidity and mortality rates. To…
Developing LocalHousingSolutions.org
Households around the U.S. face growing housing affordability challenges. While there are important roles for the federal and state governments to play in addressing this problem, many of the most critical policy solutions can only be adopted at the…
COVID-19’s Impact on India’s Family Planning Markets
The David and Lucile Packard Foundation funded Abt Global’s efforts to understand the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on India’s reproductive health markets, including its effect on global supply chains. The assessment’s goal was to identify root causes…
Integrated Team Care Program
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples have high rates of risk factors associated with chronic illness and have much higher rates of chronic disease than non-Indigenous Australians. These higher rates affect overall life expectancy and mortality…
Controlling the HIV Epidemic in Mozambique
Mozambique has the eighth highest HIV prevalence in the world, with 12.6 percent of adults living with HIV, and one of the highest HIV mortality rates. The country has made strides in testing people for HIV and providing treatment. But a high proportion…
Strengthening Systems for Better Health in Nepal
While Nepal has successfully reduced overall mortality among mothers and children under five, there is still room for improvement in equitable delivery of quality maternal, child, newborn, and reproductive health services.
Eliminating Tuberculosis (TB) in Central Asia
Central Asia is a hotspot for DR-TB. TB services are outdated, unsustainable and expensive, and increasing financial pressure on governments means money to improve services is limited. TB has a large social impact on individuals as high levels of stigma…
Support to the National Malaria Programme in Nigeria Phase 2 (SuNMaP2)
Efficient resource mobilisation, allocation and utilisation are important to improve the health outcomes of a population and achieve universal health coverage. Currently, there is limited capacity in Nigeria to determine whether the health system uses…
Nepal’s MEOR Program Monitors Health Outcomes
Despite its post-conflict legacy and the 2015 earthquake, Nepal continues to achieve substantial health progress. Critical health indicators are improving, including under-five and maternal mortality rates, but there are dramatically changing burden-of…
Our Experts in Health
Chief of Party, USAID Local Health System Sustainability (LHSS), Nigeria
Nigeria
Vice President, Global Development, U.S. Government International Program Delivery
Stronger Economies
To support effective governance for just, secure societies, Abt brokers partnerships among governments, public-private coalitions, civil society organizations, and communities to calibrate and lead programs and policies responsive to local needs.
Industry Insights
How to Make Federal Justice Data More User Friendly
Abt is making federal justice data more user friendly through better visualization and filtering capabilities.
Determined To Live
In the plight against HIV/AIDS stigma, activist, author, artist, and Abt’s head of global marketing shares his story.
Fighting on Their Front: Ukraine’s Women Entrepreneurs Are Fueling a Wartime Economy
How investing in inclusive growth pays dividends in Ukraine.
Migrants in Colombia Find Kindness and Support in ‘Alliances of Solidarity’
USAID’s Abt-led Local Health System Sustainability (LHSS) project built a Colombian non-governmental organization (NGO)’s capacity to help migrants get health care.
Mining Royalties Fueling Improved Health Coverage in DRC
Abt's work in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) is laying the groundwork for local governments to ramp up decisionmaking and spending on health priorities.
The Social Determinants of Justice: Disability, Employment, and the Justice System Connection
This podcast discusses how supports from elementary school through the hiring process can mitigate links between disability, employment, and the justice system.
From Survive to Thrive: Lessons from Resilience Building in Uganda
Chief of Party Dorothy Muroki reflects on five impactful years of the ICAN project in Uganda.
What Does the U.S. Spend on Law Enforcement? JEET Has Answers
A new Abt-developed webtool supports analysis of criminal justice expenditures and employment.
Civic Engagement Is Creating A More Equitable Health System In Timor-Leste
The Abt-led USAID Local Health System Sustainability Project is helping civil society organizations work to revitalize Timor-Leste’s health system.
Prisoners in 2021
A new BJS report, which relied on data Abt Global collected, found the prison population fell for the eighth straight year.
Factors That Affect Opioid Quality Improvement Initiatives in Primary Care: Insights from Ten Health Systems
This study of an Opioid Quality Improvement Collaborative can help providers adopt CDC opioid guidelines and improve their prescribing practices.
An Interview with Alzira Freitas dos Reis
Alzira Freitas dos Reis is the gender and diversity lead for the Australia-Timor-Leste Partnership for Human Development and an advocate for women’s rights.
Data on Adjudication of Misdemeanor Offenses: Results from a Feasibility Study
This feasibility study will help BJS assess whether to try to gather reliable national data on misdemeanor charges filed in state, county, and city courts.
Mentoring Camps Brighten Futures for Young Ugandan Women
USAID ICAN’s Adolescent Girls and Young Women mentorship camps help women who dropped out of school improve their economic status and community influence.
COVID-19’s Impact on State, Federal Prisons
A new report documents a sharp decline in prison populations in the U.S. during the pandemic and the number of COVID-19 related infections and deaths.
Abt and Industry
KOMPAK Strengthened Delivery of Core Services
KOMPAK implemented a local-level development initiative to improve basic services and economic opportunities for poor and vulnerable Indonesians.
Technical Assistance for DOJ Grantees Addressing Substance Use
People with a substance use disorder are overrepresented in the justice system, from the arrest phase to incarceration to the risk for recidivism. For example, more than 10 times as many people in prison (58 percent) and sentenced to jail (63 percent)…
Enabling Evidence-Informed Donor Decision-Making in Nepal
Foreign aid delivery is often siloed within narrow sectors or individual programmes, leading to a dearth of evidence about the aggregate effectiveness of aid. The British Embassy Kathmandu (BEK) supports Nepal in a range of thematic areas, including…
Measuring the Health & Well-Being of Incarcerated Mothers
There has been little research on women who are pregnant, give birth, or experience a pregnancy termination or loss while in prison or jail. Understanding the health and well-being of pregnant people who are incarcerated at the federal, state, and local…
Influencing Framework for UK Development in Nepal
Under the new Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (FCDO), the UK government sought to maximise the benefits of an approach that integrates diplomacy and development. These benefits included generating new evidence through research and evaluation…
Strengthening Service Delivery Systems in Northern Ghana
Ghana has made tremendous gains in improving its citizens’ wellbeing, halving the number of people living in poverty and improving chronic malnutrition rates. Yet Northern Ghana lags, as it is home to 75% of the country’s poorest citizens, and food…
A Brighter Tomorrow for Mongolia’s Energy Sector
Mongolia’s electricity and heating sectors face numerous challenges, including a reliance on coal-fired plants and antiquated infrastructure that struggles to meet demand. Limited reserve capacity means the government often must import expensive power…
Studying Programs to Support Incarcerated Students
The U.S. Department of Education seeks to better support students who are incarcerated. Its Second Chance Pell (SCP) Experimental Sites Initiative waived the prohibition against offering Pell grants to incarcerated students in federal or state prisons…
Legal Marijuana’s Effect on Justice and Health
A major shift has occurred over the past two decades in public policies and attitudes toward marijuana use. Between 1996 and 2021, 37 states passed laws legalizing the medical use of marijuana, and 18 states legalized recreational use. However, marijuana…
Supporting the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF)
The Abt Scientific Resource Center (SRC), with our partner Kaiser Permanente Center for Health Research, supports the USPSTF in meeting evolving standards and expectations for rigorously developed, evidence-based clinical guidelines.
Building Resilience and Growth in Eastern Europe
Our joint challenge with domestic reform owners was to: Pivot to a response to the outbreak of war in Ukraine and support war recovery efforts Reform regulation of the business environment and economic governance to promote broad-based economic growth…
PREA Audit System Provides Tool for Auditors to Conduct Sexual Safety Audits
The Department of Justice's PREA standards outline requirements for preventing, detecting, and responding to sexual abuse and sexual harassment in confinement facilities. Each year, hundreds of confinement facilities must be audited for compliance with…
Amplifying EPA’s Heat Island Reduction Program
Structures such as buildings and roads, absorb and re-emit much more of the sun’s heat than do natural landscapes such as forests and bodies of water. Urban areas with highly concentrated structures become “islands” of higher temperatures compared to…
Reimagining Response to Vulnerable Populations in Crisis
Homelessness and untreated serious mental illness (SMI) and/or substance use disorders (SUD) are at the root of many crisis-related calls for emergency services. However, first responders often lack the necessary information, skills, resources, or…
CREST and QCS System Re-entry Service Provision
Re‐entry services help those released from detention avoid re‐offending, succeed on parole, and remain out of custody. To achieve this, reintegration programs must be responsive to the multiple factors that can influence behaviour change. These services…
Our Experts in Governance
Senior Project Director, USAID Comprehensive Action for Climate Change Initiative (CACCI)
Inclusive growth is at the core of resilient, sustainable economies worldwide. Working at institutional, firm, and farm levels to expand agricultural production, strengthen market systems, and adapt to climate change—we facilitate stronger business environments by brokering public-private dialogue, establishing private-sector partnerships, and supporting policy reforms.
Industry Insights
Building Climate Resilience Through Private Sector Partnerships
The Partnership for Climate Action, led by USAID CACCI, helps the private sector contribute to climate resilience through investment and innovation.
Kathleen Flanagan
Housing Security & the Evolution of Vouchers and Rental Assistance in the U.S.
Pioneers of the research that established housing choice vouchers reflect on the program today and rental assistance for today’s housing affordability crisis.
Fighting on Their Front: Ukraine’s Women Entrepreneurs Are Fueling a Wartime Economy
How investing in inclusive growth pays dividends in Ukraine.
Lump Sum or Recurring: Can Cash Transfers Break the Cycles of Poverty?
Data from US & international guaranteed income pilots pose critical questions – does an annual lump sum, monthly payments, or a combination best help families?
Advancing Economic Equity through Housing
Abt evaluated JPMorgan Chase’s PRO Neighborhoods to understand how grantees are addressing their communities’ diverse economic needs by investing in housing.
PRO Neighborhoods Program 2023 Annual Report
Through 2022, JPMorgan Chase’s PRO Neighborhoods grantees made nearly 37,000 loans and other investments in underserved neighborhoods, totaling over $678.6M.
My Kids Deserve the World: How Children in the Southeast Benefit from Guaranteed Income
This brief provides early insights from parents into how guaranteed income pilot programs improving outcomes for their families.
Ukraine to Rwanda: Integrating Renewable Energy with Gender Equity
In this podcast, Joan Chahenza and Nadiia Zaritska discuss how building resilient energy systems—from Ukraine to sub-Saharan Africa—can support gender equity.
From Survive to Thrive: Lessons from Resilience Building in Uganda
Chief of Party Dorothy Muroki reflects on five impactful years of the ICAN project in Uganda.
Back to School: Compensation Doesn’t Add Up for Head Start Teachers
The blog explores the challenge of Head Start's teacher shortage amid the “back to school” season, and the need to address fair compensation for educators.
How Florida’s E-Verify Law May Increase Labor Trafficking
Some features of Florida’s new E-Verify law could put workers at greater risk for labor trafficking and exploitation.
Why We Should Be Talking about Rapid Re-housing When We Talk About Guaranteed Income
Guaranteed Income and Rapid Re-Housing programs both support low-income families; we explain how each can borrow ideas from the other to improve outcomes.
Five Ways to Maximize Youth Economic Inclusion and Participation in the Just Transition
After attending the the Global Youth Economic Opportunities Summit, we’ve got five tips to help promote inclusive youth economic engagement!
Productive Uses of Energy in African Agriculture Could Reduce Poverty
As conditions for the adoption of productive uses of energy improve in sub-Saharan Africa, this paper makes suggestions to accelerate their adoption.
Abt and Industry
KOMPAK Strengthened Delivery of Core Services
KOMPAK implemented a local-level development initiative to improve basic services and economic opportunities for poor and vulnerable Indonesians.
Alexandria Recurring Income for Success and Equity (ARISE)
Rising income inequality has left many residents of Alexandria, VA, struggling to make ends meet, including many who are working. To determine how best to support them, the city of Alexandria launched a pilot to provide select residents who earn less…
Empowering Women and Catalyzing Markets to Improve Nutrition
What influences a women’s ability to provide a balanced diet for herself and her household? In Bangladesh, the complex food system involves agriculture and non-agriculture market actors who affect food availability, access, utilization, and stability…
Evaluating the Equitable Transition Models Demonstration
Low-income youth and young adults with disabilities (Y&YAD) face a myriad of unique and challenging obstacles to improving their economic well-being, from experiencing homelessness to involvement with the justice system. They along with their families…
Supporting the Pathways to Work Evidence Clearinghouse
Improving outcomes for job seekers with low incomes remains a critical task for U.S. social policy. Over the past three decades, significant strides have been made to build evidence on programs to improve the economic stability of those with low incomes…
USAID Comprehensive Action for Climate Change Initiative (CACCI)
The climate crisis, an existential challenge for all of humanity, disproportionately affects women, youth, Indigenous Peoples, and other marginalized groups. To avoid the most calamitous effects, governments must take decisive action soon to implement…
Evaluating HUD’s Community Choice Demonstration
More than 2.3 million households participate in the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development’s (HUD) Housing Choice Voucher program, and almost a million of these households are comprised of families with children. With these vouchers, families…
Supporting Measurement, Learning, and Evaluation Efforts
The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation’s Economic Mobility & Opportunity (EMO) team aims to improve the lives of people experiencing poverty and to catalyze systemic changes to promote upward mobility. Abt has been brought on board as a thought partner to…
Clearinghouse Synthesizes Evidence on Labor Policies, Programs
The DOL-funded Clearinghouse for Labor Evaluation and Research (CLEAR) has several goals. It makes research on labor topics more accessible to practitioners, policymakers, researchers, and the public. It also provides information to inform decisions…
Building More Evidence in Reemployment Services for Unemployment Claimants
In 2018, Congress permanently authorized the RESEA program, which aims to help Unemployment Insurance (UI) claimants return to work more quickly. As a result, RESEA now requires that states use evidence to demonstrate the effectiveness of their programs.
Using Publication Monitoring and Social Media to Help NIDILRR’s Disability Research Reach its Audience
The National Institute on Disability, Independent Living, and Rehabilitation Research (NIDILRR) is the federal government’s primary disability research organization. (NIDILRR is part of the Administration for Community Living (ACL)). NIDILRR funds…
Strengthening Service Delivery Systems in Northern Ghana
Ghana has made tremendous gains in improving its citizens’ wellbeing, halving the number of people living in poverty and improving chronic malnutrition rates. Yet Northern Ghana lags, as it is home to 75% of the country’s poorest citizens, and food…
A Brighter Tomorrow for Mongolia’s Energy Sector
Mongolia’s electricity and heating sectors face numerous challenges, including a reliance on coal-fired plants and antiquated infrastructure that struggles to meet demand. Limited reserve capacity means the government often must import expensive power…
Partnering with the Private Sector to Strengthen the Cambodian Agriculture Sector
The agriculture sector must become more competitive, resilient, and inclusive to support Cambodia’s economic growth and the many Cambodians dependent on agriculture as their main source of income. This means improving access to finance, boosting value…
Process Study of the U.S. Department of Labor’s “Pay for Success” Pilots
The U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) tested the use of a Pay for Success (PFS) approach for funding and evaluating employment services. Under the PFS model, private and philanthropic investors cover the up-front costs of delivering an intervention. Then…
Our Experts in Inclusive Economic Growth
Secure Societies
Effective climate action isn’t just about mitigating threats. It’s also about advancing global environmental justice, renewable energy resources, and economic opportunity to create fair, resilient, sustainable, and secure societies.
Industry Insights
Nature Can Be a Solution to Climate Adaptation
Several years ago, my family took in a young man and his elderly mother after a flood destroyed their home. Eleven inches of rain had fallen in two days on tiny Painesville, Ohio, a community of 20,000 not far from Lake Erie. The Grand River had swollen to nine times its size and spilled into a row of low-income condominiums. Floodwater pushed past first-floor ceilings, in some cases rising to 17 feet.
Kathleen Flanagan
The Blue Pacific: Ocean of Possibilities
Small Island Developing States need investments in innovative, nature-based, sustainable interventions to mitigate the effects of climate change.
Reliable Electricity: A Saving Grace for Safer Childbirth in Tanzania’s Rural Health Centers
Solar-powered electricity has transformed healthcare delivery at a rural health center in Msongozi, Tanzania, ensuring safer childbirth and medical services.
Understanding Public Perception of Extreme Heat and Health Risks
This report by CRC, Abt, and the National Weather Service profiles public perception of dangerous heat events & recommends actionable messaging.
In Tajikistan, a Step Towards Methane Reduction
Learn how USAID’s Comprehensive Action Against Climate Change Initiative (CACCI) supported Tajikistan to join the Global Methane Pledge.
From a Moment to a Movement: Environmental Justice, Climate Justice, and Earth Day, A Global Connection for All
On the 55th anniversary of Earth Day, Dr. LaToria Whitehead shares how the environmental justice, climate justice, and earth day movements are all connected.
Ukraine to Rwanda: Integrating Renewable Energy with Gender Equity
In this podcast, Joan Chahenza and Nadiia Zaritska discuss how building resilient energy systems—from Ukraine to sub-Saharan Africa—can support gender equity.
From Survive to Thrive: Lessons from Resilience Building in Uganda
Chief of Party Dorothy Muroki reflects on five impactful years of the ICAN project in Uganda.
Through a Planetary Health Lens: Coordinating Climate Resilience Efforts Worldwide
As the climate crisis grows, how can we coordinate systems to go beyond human health to planetary health? Abt experts share their ideas in this podcast.
How Climate Change Aggravates the Behavioral Health Pandemic—and What To Do About It
Abt’s experts dive into how climate change aggravates the behavioral health pandemic and what steps can be taken to effect positive outcomes.
Breathless: Climate Change, Infectious Disease, and Indoor Air Quality
To reduce greenhouse gases, we need air-tight buildings. To reduce transmission of diseases we need better circulation. In this podcast we discuss the balance.
How Can We Deliver Reliable Energy to Africa’s Health Sector?
Joan Chahenza shares how the Power Africa Health Electrification and Telecommunications Alliance (HETA) is working to enhance private sector participation in health facility electrification in sub-Saharan Africa.
Why Climate Should be the Beating Heart of the U.S. Strategy in the Pacific
Abt’s Satyendra Prasad and Eric Reading unpack why building long-term climate resilience should be central to the U.S. strategy in the Pacific.
How Needs-Based Climate Insurance Can Help Communities in the Pacific
Abt’s climate adaptation experts explain how specialized insurance products could reduce the impact of climate risks faced by Pacific Island Countries.
Abt and Industry
Abt Fosters Finance for Climate Adaptation in the Caribbean
As the climate crisis continues to cause extreme weather, small island states are the hardest hit. For instance, most of the population in the Eastern and Southern Caribbean nations (the ESC) lives in coastal zones vulnerable to rising sea levels and…
USAID Comprehensive Action for Climate Change Initiative (CACCI)
The climate crisis, an existential challenge for all of humanity, disproportionately affects women, youth, Indigenous Peoples, and other marginalized groups. To avoid the most calamitous effects, governments must take decisive action soon to implement…
HETA: Powering Health with Clean Energy in Africa
Across sub-Saharan Africa, at least 100,000 health facilities lack access to reliable electricity and internet connections. This gap threatens health when clinics can’t keep the lights on for nighttime services or reliably provide patients with oxygen…
Strengthening Service Delivery Systems in Northern Ghana
Ghana has made tremendous gains in improving its citizens’ wellbeing, halving the number of people living in poverty and improving chronic malnutrition rates. Yet Northern Ghana lags, as it is home to 75% of the country’s poorest citizens, and food…
A Brighter Tomorrow for Mongolia’s Energy Sector
Mongolia’s electricity and heating sectors face numerous challenges, including a reliance on coal-fired plants and antiquated infrastructure that struggles to meet demand. Limited reserve capacity means the government often must import expensive power…
Partnering with the Private Sector to Strengthen the Cambodian Agriculture Sector
The agriculture sector must become more competitive, resilient, and inclusive to support Cambodia’s economic growth and the many Cambodians dependent on agriculture as their main source of income. This means improving access to finance, boosting value…
Hazardous Substances Spill Mitigation Analysis
In 2019, the Natural Resource Defense Council and other organizations filed suit against the U.S Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), alleging violations of the Clean Water Act’s (CWA) statutes regarding discharge of hazardous substances. EPA and the…
Supporting the Planning and Evaluation of Louisiana’s Mid-Barataria Sediment Diversion
Louisiana needs to rebuild its eroding coastline, which is degrading in part because levees prevent sediment from the Mississippi River from replenishing coastal areas. The Mid-Barataria Sediment Diversion (MBSD) was proposed to reconnect the river to…
Monitoring Ecological and Socioeconomic Effects of Coastal Restoration
The National Fish and Wildlife Foundation (NFWF) wanted to understand the socioeconomic effects of 38 restoration projects funded through its Hurricane Sandy Resiliency Grant Program. The goal was to ensure accountability of Department of Interior…
Lake Superior Manoomin and Ecosystem Characterization Study
A variety of environmental factors threaten manoomin (wild rice) in the Lake Superior Basin. Given that, as part of the Lake Superior Wild Rice Initiative, Lake Superior Basin Anishinaabe communities, NOAA, and state agencies sought to document and…
Amplifying EPA’s Heat Island Reduction Program
Structures such as buildings and roads, absorb and re-emit much more of the sun’s heat than do natural landscapes such as forests and bodies of water. Urban areas with highly concentrated structures become “islands” of higher temperatures compared to…
Best Practices to Improve International Solid Waste Management
Many medium and large cities in developing countries lack the capacity to adequately manage solid waste. Limited awareness of best practices for waste management and lack of access to key technical resources are key barriers to improvement. Inadequate…
Building the Next Generation of Resilient Ugandans
Statistically, the average Ugandan is a poor, malnourished, 14-year-old girl living in a rural area, prone to drop out of school and at extreme risk of pregnancy and early marriage. Her well-being is a bellwether for all Ugandans. She must thrive if the…
National Flood Risk Characterization Tool
Climate change is producing extreme volatility in weather events. 100-year floods occur with alarming regularity. That produces challenges for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, which has too few dollars for all the needed projects. What the Corps needs…
Clean Power Asia
Energy consumption across Southeast Asia is projected to double by 2040. If the region continues to rely heavily on conventional energy sources such as coal to meet demand, the negative impacts on ecosystems, human health, and livelihoods throughout the…
Our Experts in Climate, Energy & Environment
Senior Project Director, USAID Comprehensive Action for Climate Change Initiative (CACCI)
Abt Global pioneers research and facilitates solutions to health challenges in the U.S. and around the world, teaming with private and public providers to improve health services and systems.
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Global Health Security: 2024 Year in Review
Abt Global’s top global health security insights from 2024 as we look ahead to 2025.
Kathleen Flanagan
Tackling Antimicrobial Resistance: Integration and Systems Strengthening
Insights and Approaches from Five Years of Addressing HIV Epidemic Control in Mozambique
The ECHO project is advancing HIV epidemic control in Mozambique through innovative approaches, local empowerment, and sustainable strategies for testing, treatment, and viral load suppression
Behind HRSA’s Global HIV/AIDS Coordination
HRSA program provides versatile TA for vast portfolio of HIV/AIDS Programs, furthers bidirectional US-Global learning agenda and local system strengthening for HIV services
Sharing Lessons to End the HIV Epidemic in the U.S. and Abroad
This white paper explains how bi-directional learning from the U.S.-focused RWHAP program and the international PEPFAR program can help end the HIV epidemic.
Health Security Evolution and the Path for Pandemic Preparedness: Where Do We Go From Here?
We know how to prepare for inevitable epidemics. It takes will and wisdom. Do we have them?
Funding Model Helps Bangladesh Expand Primary Health Care
Some municipalities fund primary health care services in urban areas of Bangladesh.
Collaboration Improves Health Insurance Coverage in Nigeria
Abt helped two Nigerian agencies collaborate to increase access to health insurance.
Uzbekistan Launches New TB Funding Mechanism
Uzbekistan is moving from paying TB hospitals based on occupied beds to compensation based on the number of patients treated.
Migrants in Colombia Find Kindness and Support in ‘Alliances of Solidarity’
USAID’s Abt-led Local Health System Sustainability (LHSS) project built a Colombian non-governmental organization (NGO)’s capacity to help migrants get health care.
Community Focus: How the DRC Is Reducing TB
The Abt-led USAID Integrated Health Program in the Democratic Republic of Congo is enhancing the ability of communities to combat tuberculosis.
Logistics Management Tool Brings New Strength to Vietnam’s Fight Against TB
The Abt-led USAID Local Health System Sustainability Project created a logistics management information system for TB drugs in Vietnam.
Bolstering Global Health Security in a Changing Climate
Climate change requires adaptive global health security strategies.
Abt Helps Local Groups Play Greater Roles in Health Systems
Abt supports new local partners in taking on incrementally larger roles in health system strengthening efforts.
Abt and Industry
Combatting Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTDs)
Ascend Lot 1 – The UK Government’s Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) set out to invest £100 million in 11 countries in East and Southern Africa and South Asia to advance the impact and sustainability of national programmes tackling NTDs…
Abt-led Namibia Project Exceeds Goal for Male Circumcisions
VMMC is an integral component of the Government of the Republic of Namibia’s prevention approach to ending HIV and AIDS. Despite significant effort, VMMC coverage remains low. The population-based self-reported circumcision rate is 36.4 percent among…
Reducing Uzbekistan’s Tuberculosis (TB) Burden
Uzbekistan has made great strides in tuberculosis (TB) control. However, the TB burden remains high, and Uzbekistan is in the top 30 countries with cases of multidrug-resistant TB. Across USAID’s reach, cure, prevent, innovate, and sustain strategic…
PMI Evolve: Evolving Vector Control to Fight Malaria
The World Health Organization estimates that about 608,000 people died from malaria in 2022, a slight decrease from the prior year, but still higher than before the onset of the global COVID-19 pandemic. Young children and pregnant women are among the…
Expanding Private Health Services for Benin’s Women and Children
Maternal and child mortality remain high in Benin despite improvements over the past two decades. The country has an unmet need for reproductive, maternal, neonatal, and children’s health (RMNCH) services—including malaria prevention for pregnant women,…
HETA: Powering Health with Clean Energy in Africa
Across sub-Saharan Africa, at least 100,000 health facilities lack access to reliable electricity and internet connections. This gap threatens health when clinics can’t keep the lights on for nighttime services or reliably provide patients with oxygen…
Strengthening Service Delivery Systems in Northern Ghana
Ghana has made tremendous gains in improving its citizens’ wellbeing, halving the number of people living in poverty and improving chronic malnutrition rates. Yet Northern Ghana lags, as it is home to 75% of the country’s poorest citizens, and food…
Improving Nutrition for Tajik Mothers and Children
The primary goal of the U.S. Agency for International Development’s Healthy Mother Healthy Baby (HMHB) activity in Tajikistan is to improve the nutritional status of mothers and children under two and reduce their morbidity and mortality rates. To…
COVID-19’s Impact on India’s Family Planning Markets
The David and Lucile Packard Foundation funded Abt Global’s efforts to understand the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on India’s reproductive health markets, including its effect on global supply chains. The assessment’s goal was to identify root causes…
Integrated Team Care Program
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples have high rates of risk factors associated with chronic illness and have much higher rates of chronic disease than non-Indigenous Australians. These higher rates affect overall life expectancy and mortality…
Results from the Jordan Communication, Advocacy, and Policy (JCAP) Activity
Abt Global helped the USAID-funded JCAP activity communicate about—and change behaviors around—sustainable family planning and RMNCH+ services in Jordan.
Infectious Diseases Impact Healthcare Workers
Healthcare workers (HCWs) are a pivotal part of controlling the spread of infectious diseases and are at the forefront of the response to emerging pathogens. However, HCWs themselves are at high risk of exposure to these infectious diseases. To protect…
Controlling the HIV Epidemic in Mozambique
Mozambique has the eighth highest HIV prevalence in the world, with 12.6 percent of adults living with HIV, and one of the highest HIV mortality rates. The country has made strides in testing people for HIV and providing treatment. But a high proportion…
Strengthening Systems for Better Health in Nepal
While Nepal has successfully reduced overall mortality among mothers and children under five, there is still room for improvement in equitable delivery of quality maternal, child, newborn, and reproductive health services.
Eliminating Tuberculosis (TB) in Central Asia
Central Asia is a hotspot for DR-TB. TB services are outdated, unsustainable and expensive, and increasing financial pressure on governments means money to improve services is limited. TB has a large social impact on individuals as high levels of stigma…
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