The Advancing Philippine Competitiveness (COMPETE) project is a cornerstone of USAID’s Partnership for Growth with the Philippine government. The partnership supported policy and regulatory reform of the business-enabling environment. COMPETE provided technical assistance to Promote trade and investment through the … Read More
Myanmar’s Ministry of Communications and Information Technology received assistance from Nathan in creating credible telecom regulations and sustainable, fair, and competitive market conditions in Myanmar. Nathan analyzed the possible approaches to regulation of access to and interconnection of communications networks. … Read More
Nathan analyzed plans for hydroelectric stations proposed by Generadora San Mateo SA and Generadora San Andrés SA in Huehuetenango, Guatemala. The planned capacity of the San Mateo station is 19.1 megawatts and 9.7 megawatts for the San Andrés station, with … Read More
The objective of the Transport and Logistics Yearbook for Latin America and the Caribbean was to collect data on the characteristics and performance of the sub-sectors of transport and services in 16 countries of Latin America and the Caribbean. There … Read More
For MicroSave, a microfinance institution in India funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Nathan provided quantitative expertise for an empirical study and evaluation of best practices in building and managing agent networks for effective delivery of inclusive digital … Read More
Protectionist aviation policies were severely constraining tourism and business development in Mozambique, potentially a top tourist destination. Mozambique has taken important steps toward a liberalized skies policy, but additional efforts were needed to implement changes and promote more competition. With … Read More
Nathan was commissioned by Google India to conduct a study to assess the impact of the internet on the performance of small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in India. To undertake the impact assessment, Nathan used a mixed methods approach including … Read More
In 2012 the Banco Internacional de Costa Rica, SA (BICSA) received a mandate from Port Authority Grain Company Caldera (SPGC) to structure a medium-term credit to finance the construction and operation of the new Caldera Port Grain Terminal in Costa … Read More
For developing countries, economic growth through increases in trade is the fastest way to reduce poverty. In the East African Community, this requires improving competitiveness of exports at national and regional level, particularly since the EAC market must operate in … Read More
Improving learning outcomes for 1 million marginalised girls
The Girl’s Education Challenge (GEC) is a global £300m DFID challenge fund to improve educational outcomes for girls by triggering and scaling up successful innovation among the private sector and NGOs. The focus for the project is not simply ensuring that the use of a challenge fund would enable more girls to have access to learning opportunities, but that girls would remain in schools for long enough to transform their social and economic opportunities.
Launched in 2012, the Girl’s Education Challenge is the largest donor-funded global girls’ education programme, funding 37 individual projects across 19 countries. Projects were selected through an open and transparent process and assessed for their ability to implement new and effective ways to get girls into school, keep them there and make sure they receive a good quality education in ways which are sustainable beyond the GEC funding.
The Girl’s Education Challenge programme is innovating payment by results for projects based on their achievements in terms of girls’ learning improvements. With this comes a rigorous approach to monitoring and evaluation to help understand the impact of different interventions on girls’ learning outcomes. Approximately 70,000 girls across 19 countries are tracked as part of this evaluation, while advanced evaluation methods such as randomized control trials and quasi-experimental research designs are used to understand the girl’s improvements in learning compared to a control group.
Nathan has played a key role in setting up the GEC fund by providing both challenge fund and education expertise, and has provided technical support for setting up the monitoring and evaluation framework. Nathan continues to play a central role in the delivery, management and further development of the GEC evaluation.… Read More