Established in 2008, the Evans School Policy Analysis and Research Group (EPAR) uses an innovative student-faculty team model to provide rigorous, applied research and analysis to international development stakeholders. EPAR has prepared more than 300 technical reports and briefs including: statistical data analysis and research, literature reviews and analysis, and portfolio analysis and strategy support. Our reports focus on agriculture, development policy, financial services, poverty reduction, gender, and measurement and evaluation.
Click on the links below, or the Research tab above, for data, code, technical papers, briefs etc. by topic (e.g., indicators, gender, climate). You can also follow the tabs above to explore interactive data visualizations, read recent blog posts, go directly to the work of the Center for Risk and Inclusion in Food Systems (CRIFS), read briefs about our methods (e.g., text analysis, portfolio reviews), or learn more about EPAR.
A menu appears on the right for all blog posts. In addition, we have 50+ Research briefs (between a technical paper and a blog). Please use the search bar found at the top, to the right of the W, with keywords for research briefs (e.g., maize, SSP), or type in Research Briefs to see the full list.
Data and Code:
Agricultural Indicator Curation
EPAR has constructed of a set of agricultural development indicators using data from the Living Standards Measurement Study – Integrated Surveys on Agriculture (LSMS-ISA).
Visit Our Github
EPAR hosts code, compiled datasets and agriculture development indicators from the LSMS-ISA and other related datasets. subscribe to our website to hear more about our Github updates.
Browse Ag Query
Check out AgQuery, EPAR’s initiative to make agriculture data easily accessible.
Small-Scale Producers:
Gender
We conduct extensive research on gender-related topics such as women self-help groups, sex disaggregated data, gender and climate change, to name a few.
Climate Change and Risk
How can we better understand how SSPs consider adaptation while facing climate risk? To learn more about our agenda and opportunities, connect to our CRIFS page and visit our E-library.
Other Topics
Our other topics include defining SSPs, mobile phone usage, digital financial services, and a lot more.
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