Global programs / Long-term Assistance and Services for Research (LASER) (PULSE)
Long-term Assistance and Services for Research (LASER) (PULSE)
Long-term Assistance and Services for Research (LASER) will leverage and support international university networks, inclusive of universities from both the United States (U.S) and lower-middle income countries (LMIC), to undertake novel… IATI activity description (US-GOV-1-7200AA18CA00009)
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Long-term Assistance and Services for Research (LASER) will leverage and support international university networks, inclusive of universities from both the United States (U.S) and lower-middle income countries (LMIC), to undertake novel and innovative development research, collaborate with Missions and local actors to design and undertake research projects, and create connections that accelerate the uptake of research outputs by development actors and policy makers. The resulting LASER network will not only generate new knowledge for USAID, but also initiate long term, sustainable collaborations between U.S. and developing country institutions that are characterized by equitable university partnerships. Services this mechanism will provide: Co-creation and implementation of research activitiesResearch design, primary data collection and analysis; Technical reports with potential for USAID co-authorshipTranslation of research findings into policy and program relevant recommendations; Academic-style program evaluation (answers a sector relevant, hypothesis-driven question); Sustained engagement with research faculty.
Source: IATI activity description, US-GOV-1-7200AA18CA00009 (2018). This is the source's own text, not a cited summary of the documents.
Operated in: Western Hemisphere, Eastern Hemisphere, Vietnam, Ukraine, South Africa, Kenya, Tanzania, Iraq, Uganda, Nepal, Ethiopia, Cambodia, Middle East, Colombia, Southeast Asia, Malawi, Africa South of Sahara, Laos, Latin America, Rwanda, East Asia, East Africa, Somalia.
Years
2018 to 2024 award start, end from document years
Implementer
Purdue University; University of Notre Dame; Alliance for Peacebuilding; and 88 more 32 sources
Funder or award
USAID; 7200AA18CA00009
Purpose
Not available yet: the program's stated purpose has not been read from its documents.
Districts, regions and facilities the program's own documents name, with what the document says it did there. · Source: sentences in the program's documents
Districts, regions and facilities named in the program's own documents, not verified sites. Place dots exist for Malawi and Guatemala only so far.
Sample Built from district names in Malawi documents while the full place data loads; it is not yet the finished place list.
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Solid: the documents describe the program's work there. Faint: named in the program's documents. Bigger means more mentions. Shown: district; squares are facilities.
District · 15 mentions · 2021 to 2023
District · 8 mentions · 2023
District · 7 mentions · 2023
District · 3 mentions · 2023
Countries where this program operated, set by the countries its documents name most often. Countries only tagged on documents are listed apart. · Source: document tags, scope rule
Scope: global. Set by the countries the program's documents name most often. High confidence.
How we know this
How sure we are: 1.
evidence countries (16): Vietnam 17, Ukraine 17, South Africa 16, Kenya 13, Tanzania 11, Iraq 10; top share 0.15, single-country share 0.15; regions -> global +2
sponsor central 22/24 evidence -> global +1
award office AA (USAID/Washington) -> global +1
dropped Ukraine tag on 8 Africa-context docs (taxonomy defect)
When the program ran, from its start year to the latest document year. A hatched bar means the start is our estimate. · Source: award and document years
Axis: award years, end from years in documents. The start year comes from award fiscal year; the end is the latest document year, so the program may have run longer.
Who started the program, and which administration it began under. Timing only; it does not say who started it. · Source: initiative records, start year
Began during the Donald Trump administration (2017–2021). Based on its first award year, 2018. This places the program in time only; it does not mean that administration started it.
No document or official record says which initiative or administration launched this program.
Organizations that ran this program, from award records and document authors. Prime and sub roles are not split yet. · Source: award and document records
Named as an institutional author on documents; whether prime, sub or consortium member is not recorded. Basis: read from a record field
Labels on the program's documents, not a description of what the program did. · Source: DEC document tags
Sector profile (computed): Private sector competitiveness 16%; Basic education (early childhood, primary, secondary, literacy, teachers) 12%; Rule of law and human rights 8%
Topic tags (15)
DEC topic and subject tags. They describe the documents, not what the program was. Each tag opens its evidence in the drawer.
Universities and collegesDEC topic tag, PA-00X-JMH, PA-00X-R1V and 3 more, 2021 to 2023, confidence 1; 22 records
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Studies that assessed this program, and the lessons taken from them. · Source: linked evaluation documents
Evaluation studies and evaluation-stage documents, by title and year. Findings not extracted yet.
Title
Year
Document
Why listed
Impact evaluation : psychosocial support on children’s well-being, literacy, and math outcomes in the South Sudan integrated essential emergency education services activity : final report
2020
PA-00W-S33
linked as an evaluation of this program
Research on the Nature and Scope of Trafficking in Persons (TIP) in South Africa - Lessons Learned Research Brief
2021
PA-00Z-N4V
linked as an evaluation of this program
Evaluation of Reanalysis Precipitation Data and Potential Bias Correction Methods for use in Water Resources Applications in Data-Scarce Areas
Not recorded yet: support mechanisms, money rows. A missing record is not a finding. USAspending records start in FY2007; earlier obligations are missing, not zero.
Every document that cites this program, grouped by a stage label from a weak classifier. · Source: document library