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Gender and women’s empowerment is a pillar of Sierra Leone’s Agenda for Prosperity, but there is still much work to be done toward this end.

Research evidence suggests that pre-primary learning using a play-based approach benefits children and helps them to succeed in school.

Human pressure on the environment and climate change have increased the possibility for multi-species contact, zoonosis (the transmission of disease between animals and humans), and the emergence of infectious pathogens and outbreaks.

Worldwide, there are 258.

In Africa and Asia, open data is increasingly regarded as an important tool to address complex development challenges.

The full impact of COVID-19 on West Africa’s vulnerable populations is not well understood.

This project will enhance the use of data from existing household surveys by government officials to analyze the education sector and encourage policymakers to leverage the resulting knowledge on gender, equity, and inclusion to inform their policy decisions.

A lack of investment in quality early education compromises children’s learning and increases inequality.

As confirmed by the WHO’s guidelines on risk communication and community engagement issued for the 2018 Ebola outbreaks in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), research is a critical component to both outbreak control measures and future preparedness activities.

The 2013-2015 outbreak of Ebola virus disease (EVD) in West Africa (Guinea, Liberia, and Sierra Leone) was unprecedented, resulting in more than 11,000 human deaths with an estimated total cost of US$4.

This project aims to strengthen transformative leadership capacities in West Africa to encourage improved institutional and government use of health research and evidence in decision-making.

Tobacco is a significant contributor to the rising global burden of non-communicable diseases.

This project aims to analyze the gender dividend in West Africa.

Globally, the evidence to increase access to justice is sparse, especially compared to other essential services like education and health.

Like many West African countries, Sierra Leone has identified large-scale land investments as a key pathway for economic growth.