Educating Moroccan Youth for a Productive Future
This fact sheet provides insights into some of the challenges for addressing youth unemployment in Morocco.
Available in English and French.
PRB communicates evidence generated by USAID-funded researchers in compelling and accessible language using a range of visually appealing formats. Working with research teams and USAID on RTAC, PRB identified target audiences, crafted key messages, developed action-oriented recommendations, and determined the best format to communicate results to their primary audiences. Using project documentation and results shared by the research teams, PRB worked in consultation with the teams to create communication products that conveyed key findings in engaging language and formats, including fact sheets, policy briefs, graphically rich presentations, short videos, or other formats suitable to the target audiences. The products helped researchers strategically communicate research insights or technical innovations to different audiences in a way that could be readily used to inform policies, programs, or practices in a particular sector.
Early Diagnostic Test Promises to Improve Treatment and Control of Cutaneous Leishmaniasis
The presentation outlines the health and development implications of cutaneous leishmaniasis, along with the challenges related to diagnosing and treating this neglected tropical disease.
Available in English and French.
Sharing the Land: Applying Innovative Approaches to Meet Community Needs for Effective Land Management in the Democratic Republic of the Congo
This innovation brief describes Sharing the Land’s promising approach to address land conflicts and promote transparency in land governance in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
Available in English and French.
Smoke Signals: Policy Solutions to Sustain Colombian Forests
This fact sheet describes policy solutions that will help preserve Colombia’s tropical forests from wildfires and their underlying causes.
Available in English and Spanish.
Using Cocoa Pod Husks to Improve Crop Yields and Soil Quality
The training manual offers farmers in Cameroon step-by-step instructions for two processes that cocoa farmers can adopt to reduce their reliance on expensive chemical fertilizers and fungicides.
Available in English and French.
Damming the Ecosystems of Amazonia: Taking an Ecosystem View of Hydroelectric Dams in Brazil
This innovation brief offers recommendations for improving existing policy instruments to ensure that assessments for new dams in the Amazon River basin in Brazil include flooded environments and impacts on the broader ecosystem.
Available in English and Portuguese.
Contact Tracing: Policy Solutions to Address Childhood Tuberculosis in the Northern Philippines
This fact sheet describes the high burden of tuberculosis among exposed children in the Philippines and identifies how national and subnational governments can take steps to improve the health of citizens.
Available in English and Tagalog.
The Agricultural and Economic Advantage of Biopesticides: Increasing Rice Yields and Smallholder Farmer Equity in Mali
Domestic production of biopesticides can generate economic savings and increased revenue from rice production in Mali. This brief provides recommended actions to be considered as part of a multi-prong approach to the scaleup of biopesticide use.
Cooling From the Sun: Innovations for Effective Post-Harvest Cold Storage in Rural Areas of India
This brief identifies how innovations that use solar energy and low-cost materials increase access to refrigerated cold storage for rural farmers who lack reliable electricity, decreasing food waste and increasing farmers' wages.
Electro-Chemical Arsenic Remediation (ECAR): Reducing Toxic Arsenic in Drinking Water in India
This fact sheet provides an a practical, sustainable, and profitable way to reduce arsenic in drinking water.
GridWatch: A Low-Cost Approach to Measuring the Reliability of Power Systems
This fact sheet shares how companies in sub-Saharan Africa can use GridWatch data to identify, track, and respond to outages more rapidly; regulators can use the data to monitor utility performance; and donors and governments can use it to better target investments in infrastructure to help deliver reliable power to the communities that need it most.
The Time Is Now: Preserving the Ecosystems, Fisheries, and Cultural Heritage of the Amazonian Rivers
This fact sheet outlines steps that global and national partners can take to preserve Amazonian rivers.