This paper provides some of the first experimental evidence on strategies to minimize the fallout of the pandemic on learning. We evaluate two low-technology interventions to substitute school in this period: SMS text messages and direct phone calls.

This study presents a survey of parent perspectives about children’s education. We present three main findings that have implications for education policymakers, administrators, educators, and civil society partners.

1.8 million new HIV infections occur every year, disproportionately affecting adolescent girls and young women. Abstinence-only risk avoidance approaches have had limited impact on reducing new infections. This cluster-randomized trial examines a risk reduction approach to curbing risky sex for school-going girls in Botswana, which has evolved to become our Choices program.