Abt Associates has been awarded a five-year $45 Million Indefinite Quantity Contract (IQC) with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers' Institute for Water Resources. The Institute provides the Corps with forward-looking insights and analyses of emerging water resource issues.
The Mali Assistance Technique National Plus (ATN Plus) project recently compiled a CD-ROM of materials produced with the Malian Ministry of Health from 2006 to 2008 under the previous Abt Associates-implemented technical assistance project in Mali—Assistance Technique National (ATN).
To understand why retiring unmarried Hispanic women have lower cancer screening rates than other groups, and to explore possible intervention strategies, Abt Associates is studying the barriers that deter them from accessing preventive health services.
In March 2010, the USAID-funded Agribusiness and Trade Promotion (ATP) project, in partnership with USAID's West Africa Trade Hub and the World Bank-funded Abidjan-Lagos Corridor Organization, released Borderless: Removing Trade Barriers in West Africa. This is West Africa's first regional assessment on road harassment.
To improve and support Liberia's capacity to train health workers, the Abt Associates-led Health Systems 20/20 project facilitated the donation of over 20,000 books and other educational materials to health professional schools in Liberia via the International Book Bank (IBB).
Misconceptions affecting the use of modern family planning range from a fear that oral contraceptives cause weight gain to a need for young married couples to “check their fertility” before using any form of birth control. The USAID-funded Private Sector Project for Women’s Health in Jordan, implemented by Abt Associates, has worked with Bayer Schering Pharma to combat this misinformation.
Preventing homelessness was one of the objectives of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA). In a recent survey of U.S. city officials by Abt Associates, 72 percent of them reported that a provision of the Recovery Act would “fundamentally change the way [their] community provides services to people who are homeless or at risk of homelessness.”
The Abt Associates-led PATHS2 project, a $195 million contract from the U.K. Department of International Development, is supporting this renewed leadership commitment in the health sector with an eye on new approaches and not just “business as usual.” PATHS2 began supporting the government of Nigeria through the Federal Ministry of Health to create change in the health sector.
In this research Abt Associates developed and tested a model that can be used to design studies that estimate the impacts on households of receiving food assistance under the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), formerly known as the Food Stamp program.
UNO Charter School Network leaders selected Abt Associates to conduct a review of their Structured English Immersion program and the possible roles for their instructional support staff in providing services to English Language Learners.
