Abt Associates President and CEO Kathleen Flanagan visited two Abt-led projects in Jordan in late April, seeing first-hand their progress on improving family planning, reproductive health, and maternal and child health. "Abt has been working in Jordan for more than 15 years - nearly one-third of Abt's 50-year history," Flanagan said.

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Governments and non-profits around the world are looking for ways to identify social programs that work and replicate them broadly. The question of how to assess these programs - and the latest methods for doing so - was at the heart of a day-long forum in Washington, D.C., hosted by Abt Associates and the Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management (APPAM).

Abt Associates is building the capacity of Indonesians to take the most environmentally friendly path to economic development. Abt conducted assessments and designed tools to make Indonesia's green development agreement a reality, helping this country balance environmental preservation and economic opportunity for its 250 million people.

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Abt Associates has won a $48.6 million contract with the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) to increase regional trade competitiveness in West Africa, improve food security, and reduce poverty under USAID's Trade Hub Network.

 

 

Abt Associates and Abt SRBI will evaluate the effectiveness of a U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) outreach effort to increase its partners' awareness about workers' rights and violations of those rights among hard-to-reach, vulnerable populations. The DOL effort involves outreach to community-based organizations and stakeholders which serve populations such as veterans; racial, religious, and ethnic minorities; the LGBT community; and people with disabilities.

 

A Randomized Controlled Trial of Professional Development for Interdisciplinary Civic Education: Impacts on Humanities Teachers and Their Students

Abt Associates researcher and Huffington Post blogger Todd Grindal disputes a recent article in The Atlantic that suggests the Common Core educational standards are too tough for students with disabilities.

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A Safe Place to Stay: The Struggle to Find Housing for America's Mentally Ill Patients 

A Guardian story quoted Gretchen Locke, an Abt Senior Associate who has researched homelessness for two decades, about the value of supportive housing for mentally ill people. "Stable housing can provide a platform for addressing mental illness that may not have been addressed in the past," Locke said.

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