Poverty, low social capital and low government administrative capacity hinder sanitation improvements, even when the health benefits are clear.

Changing the attitudes and behaviours of those enforcing restrictive societal norms is critical for achieving meaningful improvements in women’s...

Participatory information interventions empower and inspire women to become more ambitious and invest in income-generating activities

Well-designed programmes may be ineffective in practice, even with high compliance

Where community interventions lead to behaviour change, continued interactions are needed to help people maintain healthy behaviours

Increasing across-hospital transfer coordination through app-based group chats led to large improvements in the survival rate of heart attack patients

Engaged communities of parents are a potential nonscarce resource to promote the success of education programmes at scale

Prolonged exposure to ‘midday meals’ can improve learning outcomes on top of its other objectives

A conditional cash transfer programme was less effective in regions with more exposure to export-manufacturing jobs