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Abstract The baseline report for the Zambia Biofortified Maize Challenge Project evaluation uses data from 212 interviews of maize market actors (including smallholders, rural non-farming residents, retailers, and millers), as well as 1,013 interviews with urban shoppers. It presents findings about market actors’ and consumers’ awareness, production, purchase, and consumption of pro-Vitamin A maize. This work is part of the AgResults programme Citation Abt Associates, April 2016. Evaluation Baseline Report: Zambia Biofortified Maize Challenge Project. Bethesda, MD: Abt Associates and Den...

Evaluators found that the vaccine market is weak and no new vaccines to control Brucellosis have been developed in recent years

Study: Over 142 million people aged 60 years are unable to meet their basic daily needs At least 14% of all people aged 60 years and over  ̶  more than 142 million people  ̶  are currently unable to meet all their basic daily needs according to the Baseline report for the Decade of Healthy Ageing, released by the World Health Organization today. The Baseline report brings together data available for measuring healthy ageing, defined by WHO as "the process of developing and maintaining the functional ability that enables well-being in older age." Optimizing "functional ability" is the g...

Couple of years, anonymously, the data about your workforce. we're trying not to make this a new data reporting requirement. we believe we can build on what companies are are already collecting and reporting. we're going to do a baseline report in 2014, and in 2016, we're going to do a report that's going to show we've made progress on the wage gap. >> what's interesting about this is, and this connects to the family -- to paid family leave, higher minimum wage which is that local governments, municipalities have been piloting a lot of different solutions. there's higher minimum wages in a bun...