J-PAL North America and Results for America announce 18 collaborations with state and local governments
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The Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL) North America and Results for America have established 18 new partnerships with local and state governments under the programme Leveraging Evidence and Evaluation for Equitable Recovery (LEVER), which launched in April 2023.
The programme is designed to facilitate the use of federal COVID-19 recovery funding towards evidence-based innovations to a number of pressing challenges across the country including healthcare, youth development and household energy efficiency programmes. The 18 partner jurisdictions will take part in LEVER's Training Sprint, which builds government capacity for evaluation frameworks to develop and implement programmes that effectively leverage recovery funding.
J-PAL North America and Results for America have announced 18 new partnerships with state and local governments across the country through their Leveraging Evidence and Evaluation for Equitable Recovery (LEVER) programming, which launched in April of this year.
As state and local leaders leverage federal relief funding to invest in their communities, J-PAL North America and Results for America are providing in-depth support to agencies in using data, evaluation, and evidence to advance effective and equitable government programming for generations to come. The 18 new collaborators span the contiguous United States and represent a wide range of pressing and innovative uses of federal Covid-19 recovery funding.
These partnerships are a key component of the LEVER program, run by J-PAL North America — a regional office of MIT’s Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL) — and Results for America — a nonprofit organization that helps government agencies harness the power of evidence and data. Through 2024, LEVER will continue to provide a suite of resources, training, and evaluation design services to prepare state and local government agencies to rigorously evaluate their own programs and to harness existing evidence in developing programs and policies using federal recovery dollars.