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Policy Research Solutions (PRESTO) @prestopolicy.bsky.social · 17d

We’re proud to be participating in the 3rd @wfp.org Global Impact Evaluation Forum 2025! Join the live stream tomorrow for a panel session featuring a presentation from our President, @tiapalermo.bsky.social: wfp-org-conference.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

Tia Palermo @tiapalermo.bsky.social · 17d

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Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: Global Impact Evaluation Forum 2025. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meeting.

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Tia Palermo @tiapalermo.bsky.social · 17d

Tomorrow I’m participating in the third Global Impact Evaluation Forum hosted by WFP in Rome for a session on Investing in child outcomes.

When: 10 December 2025, 14:00 CET

Register here to watch the livestream: wfp-org-conference.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

Forum info: cdn.wfp.org/2025/impactf...

Policy Research Solutions (PRESTO) @prestopolicy.bsky.social · 24d

All evidence summaries: transfer.cpc.unc.edu/evidence-sum...

Evidence Summaries | The Transfer Project

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Policy Research Solutions (PRESTO) @prestopolicy.bsky.social · 24d

Evidence brief: transfer.cpc.unc.edu/wp-content/u...

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Policy Research Solutions (PRESTO) @prestopolicy.bsky.social · 24d

Have you checked out our new evidence brief on the impact of cash transfers on poverty, productivity, and resilience in Africa?

See the full summary here (link below to read the shorter brief): transfer.cpc.unc.edu/wp-content/u...

@unicef.org

Policy Research Solutions (PRESTO) @prestopolicy.bsky.social · Nov 25

Overwhelmed by the evidence on the impact of #cashtransfers in Africa? We’ve got you covered! 🆕Transfer Project evidence summaries & briefs, produced by PRESTO w/ @unicef.org, were just released. 🔗 Check out the full list below & click here to find all the PDFs: transfer.cpc.unc.edu/evidence-sum...

Tia Palermo @tiapalermo.bsky.social · Nov 5

Congrats to America’s mayors Michelle Wu and Zohran Mamdani!

socialprotection.org @socialprotection.org · Oct 15

🚨📰 The October edition of our newsletter is here: Designing Social Protection for Food Security y 🔗 Read now: tinyurl.com/October25sporg +

Policy Research Solutions (PRESTO) @prestopolicy.bsky.social · Oct 14

PRESTO was proud to co-develop this newly launched @unicef.org evidence brief on social protection and adolescent girls’ empowerment. Check it out here: www.unicef.org/media/172831...

Policy Research Solutions (PRESTO) @prestopolicy.bsky.social · Oct 3

Check out the new @socialprotection.org podcast episode featuring PRESTO’s @tiapalermo.bsky.social!

🎧 Listen here: socialprotection.org/learn/podcas...

socialprotection.org @socialprotection.org · Sep 30

Meet our guests: 🎙️ Rema Hanna, Jeffrey Cheah Professor of Southeast-Asia Studies, Harvard Kennedy School 🎙️ Tia Palermo @tiapalermo.bsky.social, President at @prestopolicy.bsky.social

▶️ Tune in: tinyurl.com/SPpodcast54

📩 Subscribe to stay updated: bit.ly/SPpodcastList

socialprotection.org @socialprotection.org · Sep 30

🎙️ 🎧 New #SPpodcast Episode – Listen now to “Social Protection Myths and Misperceptions Part 1”: tinyurl.com/SPpodcast54 ▶️🎧+

Policy Research Solutions (PRESTO) @prestopolicy.bsky.social · Aug 7

We had the pleasure of working with an incredible group of researchers at JOOUST and are excited to see how they apply their new skills to advance research in economics, public health, and beyond. #impactevaluation #globalhealth #publichealth #economics #research

Policy Research Solutions (PRESTO) @prestopolicy.bsky.social · Aug 7

Last month, PRESTO’s Tia Palermo co-facilitated an impact evaluation training at Jaramogi Oginga Odinga University of Science and Technology (JOOUST) in Kenya, as part of American Institutes for Research’s P3-Africa training and mentoring program.

Tia Palermo @tiapalermo.bsky.social · Aug 5

Would like this on a shirt, please. Applicable in too many situations to count.

"Respectfully, he's making up some shit"

~Jolanda Jones, Texas State Representative

Center for Global Development @cgdev.org · Dec 11

⏰ HAPPENING NOW: Samantha Power is at CGD to deliver remarks on how USAID is evolving to meet the key development challenges of our time. A conversation between Administrator Power and Andrea Mitchell will follow.

Tune in live ⬇🔴
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Policy Research Solutions (PRESTO) @prestopolicy.bsky.social · Dec 31

🎉As 2024 comes to an end, at PRESTO we are thankful for our collaborators, our clients, our energetic team, and the opportunity to do meaningful work that we are passionate about. Check out some of the highlights from the past year below. We look forward to even more impact in 2025!

Prof Dynarski @dynarski.bsky.social · Mar 1

Biting Vermont diss

Florian Juergens-Grant @floriangrant.bsky.social · Mar 11

How to equitably finance social protection in a world where labour appears to be losing ground?

In this @projectsyndicate.bsky.social piece, Luca Pellerano and I share some of our thinking on re-balancing social protection financing towards capital.

www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/h...

Future-Proofing Social Protection | by Florian Juergens-Grant & Luca Pellerano - Project Syndicate

Florian Juergens-Grant & Luca Pellerano explain why employers’ contributions should be determined by capital intensity, not just labor stock.

www.project-syndicate.org

Sarah Lima @smlima-mph.bsky.social · Apr 8

I had an amazing time presenting one of my dissertation papers at ASPO! Big thank you to the reviewers and programming committee for selecting this as part of the Best of ASPO for Place and Policy and giving me the opportunity to share the importance of neighborhood on breast cancer survival.

Policy Research Solutions (PRESTO) @prestopolicy.bsky.social · May 30

Mark your calendars! Join PRESTO next week on June 5th as we team up with UNICEF to bust myths on gender and cash transfers in Africa.
Register here: tinyurl.com/2hay2nmh

#cashtransfers #genderequality #socialprotection #SPorgWebinar #Africa @socialprotection.org

socialprotection.org @socialprotection.org · Jun 4

🚨 Join us on 5 June for the #SPorgWebinar ‘Myth vs. Reality: The Impact of Cash Transfers on Gender Equality in Africa’, organised by UNICEF and PRESTO.

🕛 8:00 GMT-4 (EST),
🔗👥 Meet the participants and register: tinyurl.com/2hay2nmh

#SocialProtection #GenderEquality

Working Families Party 🐺 @workingfamilies.org · Jun 25

People are tired of a status quo that isn’t working for them.

Zohran Mamdani’s campaign has sent shockwaves across the country and shown what’s possible when candidates have the courage to stay true to their values and speak authentically to working people.

Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · Jun 25

Mamdani: Tonight, we made history. In the words of Nelson Mandela, it almost seems impossible until it is done. My friends, we have done it. I will be your Democratic nominee for the mayor of New York City.

Policy Research Solutions (PRESTO) @prestopolicy.bsky.social · Jun 26

She presented how adverse childhood events influence program impacts of a cash plus intervention on youth productive outcomes in Tanzania, as part of a study done in collaboration with PRESTO under AIR’s P3 mentoring program.

#uniceftanzania #cashplus #TransferProject #Tanzania #ESAAfrica25

Policy Research Solutions (PRESTO) @prestopolicy.bsky.social · Jun 26

Today Dr. Monica Kauky, University of Dar es Salaam, presented at the 2025 Economic Science Association Africa regional conference in Nairobi.

Tia Palermo @tiapalermo.bsky.social · Jun 25

Big wins for Working Families Party in New York's 2 biggest cities last night - NYC & #Buffalo!

Working Families Party 🐺 @workingfamilies.org · Jun 25

People are tired of a status quo that isn’t working for them.

Zohran Mamdani’s campaign has sent shockwaves across the country and shown what’s possible when candidates have the courage to stay true to their values and speak authentically to working people.

Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · Jun 25

Mamdani: Tonight, we made history. In the words of Nelson Mandela, it almost seems impossible until it is done. My friends, we have done it. I will be your Democratic nominee for the mayor of New York City.

Policy Research Solutions (PRESTO) @prestopolicy.bsky.social · Jun 23

This research was conducted jointly with PRESTO researcher @tiapalermo.bsky.social & co-authors at @unicef.org Innocenti, under @airinforms.bsky.social P3 Mentoring program.

Policy Research Solutions (PRESTO) @prestopolicy.bsky.social · Jun 23

Kicking off an exciting week at the 2025 Africa Evidence Summit! Dr. Dickson Wandeda (University of Nairobi) presented long-term impacts of Ghana’s LEAP 1000 cash transfer on insurance uptake, morbidity & health seeking.
#AES2025 #cashtransfers #TransferProject

Tia Palermo @tiapalermo.bsky.social · Jun 14

The US administration has just demanded that UNICEF “re-focus on its core mandate of assisting children, including those impacted by environmental events such as natural disasters, without using the rigid casting of climate as a root cause”

usun.usmission.gov/press-releas...

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