@tiapalermo
President & Head of Research @prestopolicy.bsky.social | social protection, gender equality, violence, impact evaluation, facilitating evidence uptake, capacity building 📚✈️🧑🧒🎾 https://www.policyresearchsolutions.com/
This International Women’s Day, we’re highlighting evidence on advancing gender equality. Cash transfers can help improve women’s and girls’ outcomes, reducing poverty and violence while strengthening mental health, agency, and economic opportunity.
Read more:
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Cover of The Lancet:
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This month, PRESTO’s Maja Gavrilovic spoke at the first Gender-Responsive & Inclusive Social Protection Global Symposium in Bangkok (hosted by UNICEF, with DFAT & FCDO support). She led a skills lab on women’s economic empowerment and presented on inclusive, gender-responsive SP training.
Brief dispelling myths around cash transfers and gender: transfer.cpc.unc.edu/wp-content/u...
Cash transfer impacts on gender equality outcomes: transfer.cpc.unc.edu/wp-content/u...
Cash plus impacts on adolescents with disability: www.lshtm.ac.uk/media/97656
PRESTO will be represented at the Gender-Responsive and Inclusive Social Protection Symposium in Bangkok February 17-19! Check out some of our latest publications related to the conference’s themes in the comment section below.
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...
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...
Evidence brief: transfer.cpc.unc.edu/wp-content/u...
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...
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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...
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...
Congrats to America’s mayors Michelle Wu and Zohran Mamdani!
🚨📰 The October edition of our newsletter is here: Designing Social Protection for Food Security y 🔗 Read now: tinyurl.com/October25sporg +
Check out the new @socialprotection.org podcast episode featuring PRESTO’s @tiapalermo.bsky.social!
🎧 Listen here: socialprotection.org/learn/podcas...
🎙️ 🎧 New #SPpodcast Episode – Listen now to “Social Protection Myths and Misperceptions Part 1”: tinyurl.com/SPpodcast54 ▶️🎧+
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
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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
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.
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
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
Today Dr. Monica Kauky, University of Dar es Salaam, presented at the 2025 Economic Science Association Africa regional conference in Nairobi.
Big wins for Working Families Party in New York's 2 biggest cities last night - NYC & #Buffalo!
This research was conducted jointly with PRESTO researcher @tiapalermo.bsky.social & co-authors at @unicef.org Innocenti, under @airinforms.bsky.social P3 Mentoring program.
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
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”
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Join us tomorrow!
