Global programs / Long-term Assistance and Services for Research (LASER) (PULSE)

Long-term Assistance and Services for Research (LASER) (PULSE)

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Key awd: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.

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District · 15 mentions · 2021 to 2023
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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

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

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Organizations named on this program's documents.
Name	Role	Years	Basis	Evidence
Purdue University	implementer	2019 to 2024	Stated in a document	32 sources
University of Notre Dame	implementer	2019 to 2023	Stated in a document	25 sources

Identifiers of the awards and the organizations that funded it. Amounts are under Money. Source: award records

Awards this program is funded through (identifiers, not amounts).
Name	Years	Basis	Evidence
7200AA18CA00009 (cooperative agreement, FY2018)	2019 to 2024	Stated in a document read from a record field	175 sources

Basis: read from a record field

Funding and managing organizations.
Name	Years	Basis	Evidence
USAID	2019 to 2023	Stated in a document

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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	2021	PA-00Z-529	evaluation-stage document (eval other, weak classifier)

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

Long-term Assistance and Services for Research (LASER) (PULSE)

Evaluatorsassessed the program, never counted as implementers

Host-government counterpartsthe government body the program worked with

Name	Role	Years	Basis	Evidence
American Institutes for Research	implementer	2023 to 2024	Stated in a document	3 sources
Khulisa Management Services, University of the Witwatersrand, University of Limpopo	implementer	2022	Stated in a document	3 sources
Purdue University, Kenyan Agricultural & Livestock Research Organization (KALRO)	implementer	2023	Stated in a document	3 sources
University of Duhok	implementer	2023	Stated in a document	3 sources
University of Notre Dame, Luigi Giussani Institute of Higher Education, Save the Children	implementer	2021 to 2022	Stated in a document	3 sources
Indiana University	implementer	2020 to 2023	Stated in a document	2 sources
Khulisa Management Services (Pty) Ltd.	implementer	2020	Stated in a document	2 sources
St Augustine’s College of South Africa	implementer	2020	Stated in a document	2 sources
University of Limpopo	implementer	2020	Stated in a document	2 sources
Duke University; Fulbright University, Vietnam	implementer	2023	Stated in a document	2 sources
Inclusive Development Partners (IDP)	implementer	2023	Stated in a document	2 sources
Mbarara University of Science and Technology	implementer	2022	Stated in a document	2 sources
New York University, Makerere University	implementer	2021 to 2022	Stated in a document	2 sources
University of Dodoma	implementer	2023	Stated in a document	2 sources
University of Duhok; Indiana University	implementer	2023	Stated in a document	2 sources
University of Duhok, Purdue University	implementer	2024	Stated in a document	2 sources
University of the Witwatersrand, Khulisa Management Services	implementer	2020 to 2022	Stated in a document	2 sources
American Institutes for Research (AIR)	implementer	2023	Stated in a document	1 source
University of Arizona	implementer	2023	Stated in a document	1 source
University of Massachusetts at Boston	implementer	2021	Stated in a document	1 source
University of Minnesota	implementer	2023	Stated in a document	1 source
University of Pennsylvania	implementer	2023	Stated in a document	1 source
University of Dar es Salaam	implementer	2023	Stated in a document	1 source
University of California, Davis. Div. of Environmental Studies	implementer	2023	Stated in a document	1 source
Duke University. Center for International Development Research	implementer	2023	Stated in a document	1 source
Accenture Development Partnerships	implementer	2020	Stated in a document	1 source
Addis Ababa University (AAU)	implementer	2023	Stated in a document	1 source
University of Duhok (UoD)	implementer	2023	Stated in a document	1 source
Fulbright University	implementer	2023	Stated in a document	1 source
Khulisa Management Services, Inc. [US]	implementer	2022	Stated in a document	1 source
Addis Ababa University, Initiative for Peace and Development, University of California-Davis, University of Arizona, University of Pennsylvania, Lodestar Associates Consult PLC	implementer	2023	Stated in a document	1 source
Aid Environment (RAIN), Makerere University	implementer	2023	Stated in a document	1 source
Center of Live and Learn for Environment and Community; University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Ho Chi Minh City; Ho Chi Minh City University of Natural Resources and Environment	implementer	2023	Stated in a document	1 source
EAFIT University; ACUA - Activos Culturales Afro Foundation	implementer	2024	Stated in a document	1 source
Global Water Partnership Tanzania, University of Dar es Salaam	implementer	2023	Stated in a document	1 source
Hanoi University of Science and Technology (HUST)	implementer	2023	Stated in a document	1 source
Hanoi University of Science and Technology (HUST), Vieba Garment Company, Vietxanh Construction Technology and Investment Joint Stock Company	implementer	2022	Stated in a document	1 source
Inclusive Development Partners	implementer	2023	Stated in a document	1 source
Inclusive Development Partners (IDP), Cambodian Disabled People’s Organization (CDPO)	implementer	2023	Stated in a document	1 source
Inclusive Development Partners (IDP), Kathmandu University	implementer	2023	Stated in a document	1 source
Inclusive Development Partners (IDP); University of Massachusetts, Boston; Rowan University	implementer	2023	Stated in a document	1 source
Inclusive Development Partners, University of Massachusetts-Boston	implementer	2022	Stated in a document	1 source
Initiative for Peace and Development, Addis Ababa University, Lodestar Associates Consult PLC, University of California-Davis, University of Pennsylvania, University of Arizona	implementer	2023	Stated in a document	1 source
Kathmandu University	implementer	2023	Stated in a document	1 source
Khulisa Management Services, University of the Witwatersrand	implementer	2022	Stated in a document	1 source
Khulisa Management Services, University of the Witwatersrand, University of the Free State, University of Limpopo	implementer	2022	Stated in a document	1 source
Little Angels’ College of Management; Kathmandu University; Heifer International Nepal	implementer	2023	Stated in a document	1 source
Makerere University, Gulu University Constituent College	implementer	2022	Stated in a document	1 source
Makerere University, Mbarara University of Science and Technology, Gulu University Constituent College	implementer	2020	Stated in a document	1 source
Makerere University, Purdue University	implementer	2019	Stated in a document	1 source
Mbarara University of Science and Technology; Makerere University	implementer	2024	Stated in a document	1 source
New School for Social Research, HIAS, Columbia University, Universidad del Norte, Harvard Medical School	implementer	2023	Stated in a document	1 source
New School for Social Research, HIAS, Universidad del Norte, Columbia University, UNHCR	implementer	2023	Stated in a document	1 source
New York University, Makerere University, ParentCorps	implementer	2022	Stated in a document	1 source
Plant Resources Center (PRC), Vietnam; Vietnam National University of Agriculture, Hanoi; Seawater Solutions (SS), UK; United States Salinity Laboratory (USSL)	implementer	2023	Stated in a document	1 source
Purdue University, Catholic Relief Services	implementer	2021	Stated in a document	1 source
Purdue University, Catholic Relief Services, Gender Equity Women’s Leadership Program (GEWLP), University of Notre Dame, USAID	implementer	2021	Stated in a document	1 source
Purdue University, Catholic Relief Services, University of Notre Dame, Virginia Tech	implementer	2021	Stated in a document	1 source
Purdue University, Global Water Partnership Tanzania, RAIN, USDA-ARS	implementer	2022	Stated in a document	1 source
Purdue University, Indiana University	implementer	2022	Stated in a document	1 source
Purdue University, Makerere University, Aidenvironment (RAIN), Global Water Partnership Tanzania (GWPTZ), JKUAT/Resource Plan, USDA-ARS, University of Dar es Salaam	implementer	2023	Stated in a document	1 source
Purdue University, Makerere University, USDA-ARS, Sokoine University of Agriculture	implementer	2021	Stated in a document	1 source
Purdue University, Resource Plan Ltd.	implementer	2021	Stated in a document	1 source
Purdue University, Search for Common Good, Addis Ababa University, Aged and Children's Pastoralists Association	implementer	2023	Stated in a document	1 source
Purdue University, Somali Disaster Resilience Institute (SDRI), Makerere University	implementer	2022	Stated in a document	1 source
Purdue University, USDA-ARS, Makerere University, University of Dar es Salaam	implementer	2022	Stated in a document	1 source
Resource Plan Ltd.	implementer	2023	Stated in a document	1 source
Search for Common Good, Purdue University, Addis Ababa University, Aged and Children's Pastoralists Association	implementer	2023	Stated in a document	1 source
Seawater Solutions, UK; Vietnam National University of Agriculture, Hanoi	implementer	2023	Stated in a document	1 source
Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI)	implementer	2020	Stated in a document	1 source
Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI), Indiana University, University of Duhok	implementer	2021	Stated in a document	1 source
University of Engineering and Technology, VNU; Hanoi Pedagogical University	implementer	2023	Stated in a document	1 source
University of Engineering and Technology, VNU; Hanoi University of Public Health; Live & Learn for Environment and Community; University of Maryland, College Park	implementer	2023	Stated in a document	1 source
University of Engineering and Technology, VNU; Phenikaa University; VidaGIS	implementer	2023	Stated in a document	1 source
University of the Free State, South Africa	implementer	2022	Stated in a document	1 source
University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Ho Chi Minh City	implementer	2023	Stated in a document	1 source
University of Missouri St. Louis	implementer	2021	Stated in a document	1 source
University of Missouri St. Louis, University of the Western Cape, University of Missouri	implementer	2022	Stated in a document	1 source
University of Notre Dame, Luigi Giussani Institute of Higher Education	implementer	2021	Stated in a document	1 source
University of Rwanda; University of Global Health Equity	implementer	2023	Stated in a document	1 source
University of the Western Cape, University of Stellenbosch, University of Missouri - St. Louis	implementer	2022	Stated in a document	1 source
Washington University in St. Louis; University of Missouri - St. Louis; Columbia University; University of the Western Cape; University of Massachusetts Lowell	implementer	2022	Stated in a document	1 source
Wellcome Trust; University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Ho Chi Minh; Vietnam National University, Hanoi; University of Queensland; Hanoi University of Civil Engineering; Australian National University, Canberra	implementer	2022	Stated in a document	1 source

Name	Years	Basis	Evidence
South Africa	2020	Stated in a document	2 sources
South Sudan	2020	Stated in a document	1 source
Vietnam	2020	Stated in a document	1 source

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Where it worked4

Places23

Timelineyears: award years, end from document years

Political context

Implementers91

Awards and funding sources22

Topic tags15

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