Asia and Oceania
Feed the Future Advancing Women’s Empowerment Program
The Feed the Future Advancing Women’s Empowerment (AWE) Program enhances gender equality and women’s empowerment in agriculture programs by providing targeted technical assistance to USAID missions and implementing partners, the Bureau for Food Security, and other...
Department of State, Evaluation of U.S.–Philippines Child Protection Compact Partnership
In support of the U.S. State Department’s Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons (TIP Office), EnCompass and Social Impact have partnered to complete a baseline assessment of the United States–Philippines Child Protection Compact (CPC) Partnership,...
Department of State, Evaluation of Efforts to Combat Human Trafficking in Fisheries
Under a blanket purchase agreement with the U.S. State Department’s Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons, EnCompass is undertaking a complex, multi-stakeholder evaluation of a regional coordination body, developed by the International Labour...
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Landscaping Study on Technology to Support Women’s Empowerment
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation contracted EnCompass to conduct a landscape analysis of technologies, actors, innovations, and trends in technology-enabled self help groups.
Following the Voice of Life: HIV Prevention and Empowerment of Men Who Have Sex with Men in Orenburg, Russia
Gender inequality is a major contributor to men who have sex with men's (MSM) vulnerability to HIV. Understanding the gender dynamics of MSM, as well as their specific sexual identity issues and concerns, is important for delivering effective HIV services. This case...
Evaluating USC Canada’s Seeds of Survival
EnCompass conducted the midterm evaluation of USC Canada’s Seeds of Survival program. USC Canada promotes vibrant family farms, strong rural communities, and healthy ecosystems around the world, by focusing on activities that build food and livelihood security for...
Evaluation of Beyond Access Libraries Program in Bangladesh
This brief illustrates EnCompass' evaluation of the Beyond Access initiative-- funded by the Global Libraries Program-- to modernize libraries across Bangladesh. This effort, implemented by Save the Children in Bangladesh and IREX, has turned over 20 libraries across...
Female Community Health Workers in Maternal and Child Health
Community health workers (CHWs), and the barriers they face in providing services, have been studied extensively. Less examined is how CHWs respond to these barriers. The USAID Applying Science to Strengthen and Improve Systems (ASSIST) Project conducted a qualitative...
Evaluation of Beyond Access Libraries Program in Myanmar
This brief illustrates EnCompass' evaluation of the Beyond Access initiative-- funded by the Global Libraries Program-- to enhance access to technology in libraries across Myanmar. Implemented by the Myanmar Book Aid and Preservation Foundation (MBAPF) and IREX, this...
Special Saving Newborn Lives (SNL) Report: Progress in Indonesia
This special study for Save the Children’s Saving Newborn Lives (SNL) program provided an opportunity to return to two countries, Indonesia and Mali, four years after SNL ended its in-country activities. The study has three components: two case studies which...