Explore the concept of effective multi-stakeholder engagement. While engagement is the key to any successful change intervention, the challenge is to aim for context and sector-specific approaches amidst the many examples that exist.

Learn the concept of systematic review. The presentation covers the stages of a systematic review and discusses the advantages of conducting one. The importance of developing a search protocol is also explained.

Find out how to develop theories of change by engaging in an ongoing systematic review of the effectiveness of interventions in low- and middle-income countries. Explore how research evidence can be made relevant and useful for policy and practice.

Explore in detail the Kitakyushu Regional Energy Base Promotion Project. Learn how the project utilizes the potentials of Kitakyushu City for renewable energy or high-efficient thermal power generation, and energy management know-how earned through smart community demonstration.

While there is considerable quantitative research on the issue of secondary school dropout in rural People’s Republic of China, no systematic effort has been made to assess the deeper reasons behind student decision-making through a mixed-methods approach. This presentation explores the prevalence, correlates, and potential reasons for the dropout process.

There has been very little research on the impact of education on social values in the developing world. Learn the results of a study conducted in the People’s Republic of China that aimed to analyze the relationship between opportunities to attend upper-secondary schooling and social values.

Poor junior high students in the People’s Republic of China drop out of junior high or fail to matriculate into high school due to financial constraints. Introducing the early commitment for financial aid strategy may reduce dropout and increase high school matriculation among poor junior high students.

The predominant approach in teaching mathematics in Sri Lanka involves traditional methods. This presentation shares results of a quasi-experiment carried out to test the effect of e-learning systems on educational progress, and improvement in mathematics achievement and cognitive ability of eighth-grade students in the country.

This presentation reports the findings of a mixed-methods systematic review of mobile technology’s impact on education in low- and middle-income countries. It further presents an innovative approach to adapt systematic review in the context of international development—the concept of mixed methods research synthesis.

This presentation shares findings of a study on performance incentives for school administrators and how their responses to incentives vary with the amount of resources under their control. The study focuses specifically on the implementation of new, school-based programs to reduce childhood anemia in rural People’s Republic of China.