Globally Informed, Locally Grounded

Our local grounding is critical to the success of our work. Based at leading universities on five continents, J-PAL’s seven regional offices anchor our research, policy engagement, and capacity building work around the world.

Our teams in these offices understand local issues, local contexts, and local languages. We provide high-quality on-the-ground research support to our network of academics, including contributing to the design of survey instruments, managing survey teams, and building key relationships with implementing partners.

We also form close partnerships with governments, advocacy organizations, and NGOs to help map evidence to partners' priorities and build up a culture of evidence-informed policymaking.

J-PAL affiliated researchers have conducted over 1,100 evaluations in more than 91 countries.

Hear from our regional leadership on strategic efforts in the last year and top priorities for 2022.

J-PAL Africa

“We are proud of our role in fostering a now thriving, diverse ecosystem of actors across the continent, focused on generating and using rigorous evidence in order to better serve the most vulnerable.”

—Laura Poswell, Executive Director, J-PAL Africa

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J-PAL Europe

“We have seen increasing interest from governments across Europe—especially in southern and eastern Europe—to collaborate on launching new research, applying existing policy insights, and scaling evidence-backed programs.”

—Anna Schrimpf, Executive Director, J-PAL Europe

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J-PAL Latin America and the Caribbean

“Over the next few years we will work with our rapidly growing network of LAC-based researchers to help students catch up and plan for their futures, promote women’s economic agency, and support workers in accessing better labor opportunities.”

—Paula Pedro, Executive Director, J-PAL Latin America and the Caribbean

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J-PAL Middle East and North Africa

“Together with our government partners, we are laying the foundation for ambitious new embedded labs within government agencies, aiming to take an evidence-based approach to addressing top development priorities.”

—Alison Fahey, Acting Executive Director, J-PAL MENA

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J-PAL North America

“In collaboration with our partners, we’ve worked to address urgent needs related to the pandemic to help communities across the United States rebuild.”

—Laura Feeney and Vincent Quan, Co-Executive Directors, J-PAL North America

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J-PAL South Asia

“The Covid-19 crisis, in hindsight, brought the tight-knit J-PAL South Asia community even closer. It also illuminated growing demand for J-PAL South Asia’s research, policy, and training expertise.”

—Shobhini Mukerji, Executive Director, J-PAL South Asia

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J-PAL Southeast Asia

“In 2021, we helped policymakers use existing evidence to inform Indonesia’s emergency relief programs, and conducted surveys to help them understand the social and economic impact of the pandemic on Indonesians.”

—Lina Marliani, Executive Director, J-PAL Southeast Asia

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