Research

Milk ferments with known beneficial effects, known as probiotics, can have positive influences on health and cognition when consumed as a dietary supplement. Despite evidence of these links in animals and adults, little work has examined them in children. This is striking, given the substantial role gut bacteria play in brain development early in life.…

Improving the quality of education and giving children from disadvantaged backgrounds the opportunity to access quality schooling are central concerns of both academics and policymakers in many countries around the world. In Côte d’Ivoire, two main laws (1995, 2015) aim to reform the education system and make public education compulsory and free for children aged…

In cooperation with Education Sub Saharan Africa (ESSA), this project aims to provide access to global public goods supporting African research on education.

Addressing child labor and educational quality independently, as is often done in government silos, misses the critical interdependence between the two. Little research to date has addressed this dependency, despite the high value of such information for improving learning outcomes globally. Combining two evidence-based interventions by coordinating them for the first time, SEME is a…

Millions Learning, a project of the Center for Universal Education (CUE) at the Brookings Institution, explores how to address the scope of global education challenges by scaling effective and innovative initiatives and improving system-wide approaches. CUE has launched a series of Real-time Scaling Labs with local partners around the world—including in Côte d’Ivoire in partnership…

Innovations for Poverty Action (IPA) is a research and policy non-profit that discovers and promotes effective solutions to global poverty problems. IPA supports TRECC’s partners to use data and evidence to learn about and improve their programs, and also conducts rigorous program evaluations using randomized controlled trials (RCTs). IPA has been working in Côte d’Ivoire…