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Trust and Localization: The Missing Tools in Pandemic Preparedness and Response
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What is humanity’s best defense against a pandemic or other major threat? You’d be partially right to think: high-tech equipment in gleaming new health facilities, a computer farm in the cloud to collect and share data, highly qualified clinical staff, vast sums for vaccine research and development, and expansive budgets funding expensive national public health systems.

L.A.’s new homeless solution clears camps but struggles to house people
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Inside Safe is Los Angeles’ program to provide hotel and motel rooms as shelter for people experiencing homelessness. Seven months in, CalMatters took a look at how the initiative’s performed thus far, and spoke to Abt experts Nichole Fiore and Lauren Dunton.

Some homeless people won’t go to shelters. Should they be left outside?
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Spotlight on: Medicaid Managed Care Quality Rating System
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Abt Global has a long history of developing, monitoring, and reporting publicly on quality measures for CMS programs and care settings

Spotlight On: Building Resilient Water and WASH Systems
Spotlight On
Around the world, Abt Global partners with donors, federal agencies, and local organizations to build resilient water management and WASH systems.

Evaluation of the New York State Child Assistance Program
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Abt Global completed an evaluation of an important New York State welfare reform initiative involving child support enforcement, the Child Assistance Program (CAP). Unlike many other welfare reform efforts that emphasize mandatory behavioral…

Evaluation of Delaware's A Better Chance (ABC) Program
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For Delaware's A Better Chance (ABC) welfare reform initiative, Abt Global designed an evaluation that involved process, impact, and cost-effectiveness studies. These studies addressed how the State implemented ABC and how clients' experiences differed…

Strategy for Privatization of Housing in Ulan Bator, Mongolia
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In Mongolia, Abt Global helped the State Privatization Commission understand the impact of an emerging market economy on the state-owned housing stock. An Abt Global team helped develop a strategy for the privatization of the 48,000-unit state-owned…

Welfare to Work Voucher Evaluation
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An important knowledge gap exists with respect to the role that housing assistance plays in promoting economic self-sufficiency among welfare recipients. To fill this gap, Congress appropriated funds for Section 8 tenant-based assistance to help…