University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

The Transfer Project is a regional initiative led by the University of North Carolina, the United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund, and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations to generate evidence on impacts of national cash transfer programs in sub-Saharan Africa, and to translate that evidence into policy through partnerships with national governments. The Transfer Project conducts evaluations and research that respond to governments’ policy questions about social protection programs, and helps governments apply this evidence to decisions. This grant will support the University of North Carolina to engage with African policymakers and scholars to identify evidence gaps for high-value policymaking, conduct and support impact evaluations, educate members of the media and civil society about cash transfers, and increase the capacity of government policymakers to identify evidence gaps and commission and use evidence for decision making.

The Policy Lab at UNC-Chapel Hill helps federal, state, and local governments build capacity to generate and use evidence tailored to inform priority policy and programmatic decisions in a timely and relevant manner. The Policy Lab is housed in UNC’s new School of Data Science and Society. This grant provides program support to The Policy Lab, to support staff, programmatic events, pilot initiatives, and other activities that advance the mission of the lab.

The Center for Information, Technology, and Public Life at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill researches the intersection of politics and digital technology, studying technologies in the context of the people who design, use, and govern them. This grant will support the center’s research, including on how mis- and disinformation campaigns are created and spread and how they can be counteracted.