{"id":14854,"date":"2018-03-26T15:13:51","date_gmt":"2018-03-26T15:13:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.alj.com\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=14854"},"modified":"2019-07-21T13:07:43","modified_gmt":"2019-07-21T13:07:43","slug":"abdul-latif-jameel-poverty-action-lab-at-mit-receive-us16-million-grant-uk-government-fund-new-research","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/alj.com\/en\/news\/abdul-latif-jameel-poverty-action-lab-at-mit-receive-us16-million-grant-uk-government-fund-new-research\/","title":{"rendered":"Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab at MIT to receive US$16 million grant from UK government"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><strong>J-PAL receives funding support for research on crime and governance from Department for International Development<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL) has been awarded a joint grant of US $16 million from the UK Department for International Development to research policies that focus on good governance and tackling violent crime.<\/p>\n<p>The support contributes to two J-PAL specific research programs:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>J-PAL\u2019s Governance Initiative<\/strong> &#8211; which funds randomized evaluations to identify effective approaches to improving state capacity to deliver of social services.<\/li>\n<li><strong>J-PAL\u2019s new Crime and Violence Initiative<\/strong> &#8211; which funds randomized evaluations relating to crime and social and political violence.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The joint grant was also awarded to Innovations for Poverty Action\u2019s new Peace and Recovery Initiative, which supports research on preventing, coping with, and recovering from humanitarian crises and conflict.<\/p>\n<p>To date, evaluations funded by the J-PAL initiatives include studies evaluating the impact of safety practices and fighting violence in several countries including Bangladesh, Brazil, Republic of the Congo, Nepal, Pakistan, Peru, and Uganda.<\/p>\n<p>Supported by Community Jameel, the social enterprise organization, J-PAL was set up at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2003 to tackle the root causes of poverty, including issues related to health, education, youth employment, and financial inclusion.<\/p>\n<p>J-PAL has a track-record of leveraging insights gained from its research to support policymaking around the world, including in the Middle East, where J-PAL has active and completed research projects and local partnerships to support policymaking in Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Jordan, and Morocco.<\/p>\n<p>To date, J-PAL affiliated researchers have conducted more than 890 evaluations in 80 countries, and more than 300 million people have been reached by programs tested and found to be effective through J-PAL evaluations. The organization has been instrumental in increasing the number and quality of randomized evaluations on development interventions.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Why Randomize?\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Uxqw2Pgm7s8?start=9&#038;feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>For more information on the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab and its work, click <a href=\"https:\/\/www.povertyactionlab.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":1571,"template":"","tags":[],"newscategory":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>US$16 Million Grant from UK Government | Abdul Latif Jameel\u00ae<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Abdul Latif Jameel 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