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Human Development

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    Review of SA’s early childhood development policy paves way ahead

    In collaboration with UNICEF, Genesis conducted a comprehensive evaluation of South Africa’s National Integrated Early Childhood Development (NIECD) Policy to assess the progress and effectiveness of its implementation since the policy was introduced in 2015.

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    Navigating the financial landscape of ECCE in Uganda

    Genesis, in collaboration with UNICEF, conducted a detailed analysis of the costs and challenges faced by Uganda’s Early Childhood Care and Education (ECCE) sub-sector.

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    Making the case for scaling up quality ECD in Tanzania

    To support Tanzania’s efforts in expanding quality Early Childhood Development (ECD) services, Genesis, in partnership with UNICEF, developed an investment case focused on integrating ECD programmes into national development strategies.

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    Education finance tailored to Papua New Guinea context

    As part of a collaboration between the World Bank and the Government of Papua New Guinea (PNG), Genesis customised educational finance modules for officials in PNG’s Department of Treasury and Department of Education, and created a detailed teacher guide for local trainers.

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    Piloting an EdTech solution for students in Sierra Leone

    Rising Academies, Genesis Analytics and the Tony Blair Institute have teamed up in an initiative that is piloting Khan Academy’s educational platform in secondary schools across Sierra Leone.

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    Strengthening teacher professional development in Kenya

    Genesis undertook a comprehensive assessment of Kenya’s School-Based Teacher Support Initiative (SBTSi) at the behest of the World Bank. This entailed an evaluation of the design, implementation and outcomes of the initiative in order to understand its impact on teacher professional development.

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    Highlighting impact of girls’ education project in Zimbabwe

    Genesis collaborated with Research Methods International (RMI) to undertake a comprehensive endline evaluation of the Supporting Adolescent Girls’ Education (SAGE) Programme in Zimbabwe, assessing its relevance, effectiveness, efficiency and impact.

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    Investment case to boost Rwanda’s ECD programme

    Genesis, in partnership with the National Child Development Agency (NCDA) and UNICEF, developed an investment case to support and strengthen Rwanda’s Early Childhood Development (ECD) programme for children aged 0-6 years.

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    Evaluating Catch-Up's boost to foundational learning in Zambia

    Genesis is evaluating the Catch-Up programme in Luapula, one of Zambia’s 10 provinces, with the goal of improving literacy and numeracy among young learners using the Teaching at the Right Level approach.

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    Pilot study to help young children in BiH beat the odds

    Genesis has helped Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH), a country with an ageing population, invest in young children.

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    Helping hands for early childhood education in Lebanon

    Genesis has joined forces with the World Bank and the Lebanese Ministry of Education to strengthen the Early Childhood Education (ECE) system in that country. The project, which started in June 2022, aims to increase the enrolment and quality of ECE services for children aged three to six years.

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    What’s driving low immunisation coverage in DRC?

    Genesis Analytics conducted a comprehensive study to assess the drivers of immunisation at different levels of government in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

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    Enhancing public financing for social services in Iraq

    How can the Government of Iraq (GOI) ensure adequate and efficient financing for social services, which are essential for human capital development and economic diversification?

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    Study aims to boost uptake of graduation programme in Jordan

    Genesis partnered with UNICEF to enhance the EU-MADAD graduation programme in Jordan by way of a diagnostic study and recommendations.

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    Rapid appraisal of Limpopo's 2021 matric results

    Genesis was commissioned by the Limpopo Department of Education, through the Member of the Executive Committee for Education and the Provincial Head of Department, to conduct a rapid appraisal of the province’s education system.

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    Assisting a low-fee independent school to articulate its impact

    Genesis in Society, the firm's corporate social investment arm, engaged Molo Mhlaba to conduct a programmatic assessment of the school, update the school’s theory of change and establish an impact framework to help Molo Mhlaba build an investment case for the school’s future donors.

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    What’s holding back the fight against malaria in Cameroon?

    The Global Fund’s Technical Review Panel commissioned Genesis to retroactively assess the financial performance and value for money achieved by Cameroon’s national malaria programme over the period 2015-2020.

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    Diagnosing expenditure performance through health financing analysis

    The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation needed to identify health-financing challenges driving poor system performance and the entry points in addressing the challenges.

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    Supporting health-financing advocacy with evidence-driven strategies

    We apply a suite of diagnostic and analytical approaches in health financing assessment to determine the adequacy, efficiency, cost-effectiveness and equity of financing for different disease and programmatic areas.

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    Assessing tech-enabled solutions to global youth unemployment

    Genesis was commissioned by Mercy Corps to conduct a rapid impact assessment of its Youth Impact Labs (YIL) programme.

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    Impact of COVID-19 on fiscal space for HIV in three countries

    To assess the magnitude of the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on health and HIV expenditure, UNAIDS carried out fiscal-space analyses in the Democratic Republic of Congo, Jamaica, and Lesotho.

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    Supporting Uganda to prioritise cost-effective investments in nutrition.

    Genesis has been appointed to support UNICEF and the Government of Uganda to develop high-quality evidence to support decision-making that will ensure the available resources are targeted at the most cost-effective components of the Uganda Nutrition Action Plan.

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    Assessing performance of family planning financing

    Genesis conducted family-planning performance assessment for the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation to identify key improvement areas in family-planning financing for three countries and created a tool that supports alignment between the foundation’s health and family-planning financing strategies.

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    Creating better opportunities for young people with 4IR

    Genesis has partnered with UNICEF in Rwanda, South Africa, Oman and Qatar to conduct a foundational landscape analysis that informs the development of the country investment agenda for young people in each country.

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    Charting sustainable roadmap for AIDS in Sri Lanka

    Genesis was contracted by UNAIDS to lead a transition readiness assessment (TRA) in Sri Lanka and develop an implementable sustainability roadmap to mitigate for transition risks and vulnerabilities.

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    Analysis of fiscal space Oman needs to maintain social welfare

    In partnership with Oxford Policy Management (UK) and The Firm (Oman), Genesis Analytics carried out a comprehensive fiscal space analysis for Oman, projecting expenditures for health and education to 2040.

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    Counting the health costs of VAT on soap in Madagascar

    Genesis Analytics partnered with UNICEF and the Government in Madagascar to evaluate whether an exemption in the value-added tax on soap would increase access to soap and achieve better WASH-related outcomes, and drive tax policy decision-making based on the recommendations derived from the evaluation.

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    Building the case for an investment in ECD in Burundi

    Genesis Analytics partnered with UNICEF and the Government of Burundi to build the case for multi-sectoral early childhood development (ECD) investments in the country and recommend the package of ECD interventions that is optimal to boost the development of its youngest generation and, thus, of the nation as a whole.

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    Supporting safe reopening of ECD centres in Oman

    Genesis Analytics has been working alongside UNICEF Oman to develop guidelines for the safe reopening of early childhood development centres in Oman, in order to limit the impact of COVID-19 on this crucial stage in the lifecycle for infants.

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    Supporting health financing reform in Africa with ALM

    Genesis Analytics is supporting the Africa Leadership Meeting – Investing in Health, which is tasked with developing tools and mobilising African governments to increase domestic investments in health.

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    Sustainable financing for SA School Health Programme

    The German Development Co-operation (GIZ), through its participation in the South African-German Multisectoral HIV Prevention Programme, appointed Genesis Analytics to support the South African government in strengthening the costing, budgeting and financing arrangements for the Integrated School Health Programme and in mobilising additional financial resources for the effective delivery of the programme.

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    Genesis supports Uganda with strategy to capitalise on 4IR to drive growth

    Genesis is providing technical support to Uganda's Presidential Taskforce on the fourth industrial revolution (4IR) to formulate a national 4IR strategy to guide the country on areas where 4IR technology can be domesticated to achieve development objectives.

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    Improving the accurate costing of HIV programmes in Africa

    Genesis has been awarded a contract to undertake a number of learning activities that will improve countries’ abilities to accurately cost their HIV programmes, using national data systems, and interpret existing cost data, thereby enabling more effective planning, budgeting and ongoing decision-making.

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    Evaluating project to empower 2000 scholars through school

    The Forum for African Women Educationalists (FAWE) appointed Genesis to conduct a mid-term review of their 10-year programme to support 2,000 scholars (primarily girls) in Rwanda and Ethiopia through secondary school, and to further support a group of the Rwandan scholars through university.

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    Our behavioural solutions team lifts school attendance by 14%

    Genesis Analytics partnered with the Fun Learning for Youth (FLY) programme in Alexandra to help them improve attendance and attainment rates. The interventions resulted in a 14% increase in student attendance across all grades over the five-week period.

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    Innovative funding for project to address teenage pregnancy

    Genesis Analytics was appointed with a consortium of partners to provide technical support for a social impact bond to address HIV and pregnancy in school-going adolescent girls in South Africa.

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    Sexual and reproductive services will improve health of SA's youth

    Genesis Analytics supported the Department of Basic Education (DBE) to investigate the understanding, accessibility and acceptability of providing sexual and reproductive health (SRH) services to boys and girls attending school in South Africa.

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    Assessing impact of family planning programme for Kenyan girls

    Genesis was contracted to conduct a rapid impact assessment of the Choice for Change (C4C) family planning programme in Kenya targeting adolescent girls. Choice for Change is a CIFF-funded initiative, though implemented through Marie Stopes Kenya (MSK), IPAS and the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA).

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    Impact of in-school classes for budding entrepreneurs

    Genesis Analytics was contracted to conduct an impact evaluation targeting learners who had completed three years of the startUP&go programme funded by the International Labour Organisation (ILO). 

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    Rockefeller looks to new digital skills for Africa's youth

    Genesis was awarded a two-year grant by The Rockefeller Foundation to serve as monitoring and evaluation (M&E) partner to their Digital Jobs Africa (DJA) initiative, which was set up in response to the challenge of widespread youth unemployment in Africa.

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    Harambee mid-term Evaluation

    Harambee is an organisation that addresses knowledge and skills gaps among unemployed young people in South Africa and aims to link them to entry-level job opportunities. Having placed more than 10 000 young work-seekers in employment in three years, Harambee has built an effective model that provides unemployed youth with access to job opportunities.

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