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Amber Peterman
Multi-country Impact Evaluation Specialist
I am affiliated with UNICEF's Evaluation Office based in Nairobi, the Transfer Project at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, the Cash Transfer and Intimate Partner Violence Research Collaborative and am a Center for Global Development non-resident fellow.
Current Projects: I believe in collaborative & interdisciplinary research to maximize innovation & policy impacts. Below are some examples of current projects with ongoing data collection; Please contact me for more information.
I maintain a Global Tracker of studies on Violence Against Women and Children during COVID-19 (with Megan O'Donnell at the Center for Global Development) with 350+ studies included.
Cash Transfer & Intimate Partner Violence Research Collaborative [co-led with Shalini Roy & hosted by IFPRI]
The collaborative is a group of inter-disciplinary researchers advancing the research agenda and evidence-to-policy linkages between cash transfers and IPV in LMICs. This project includes a qualitative follow-up to the Government of Ghana's LEAP 1000 cash transfer program to better understand decreases in IPV found in the quantitative impact evaluation [with the Transfer Project, including Clare Barrington, Tia Palermo, Ray Aboringo & Akalpa Akaligaung]. Qualitative fieldwork undertaken October & November of 2019.
Evaluation of C'est la Vie! Edutainment on Gender-based Violence in Senegal [with Melissa Hidrobo, Agnes le Port, Malick Dione & Moustapha Seye]
Edutainment is a promising way of shifting behaviors & social norms at scale - our mixed-method evaluation aims to unpack how the popular West African C'est la Vie! series produced by RAES affects gender-based violence & sexual/reproductive health for young women in the Koalack & Kolda regions. Baseline data for the RCT was collected in October - December of 2019. Watch the series here, check out the AEA trial registry for more information on the trial. [ © Malick Dione]
Evaluation of Mozambique's Cash & Care Child Grant program [with David Seidenfeld, Juan Bonilla, Zlata Brukauf & Maja Gavrilovic]
The Government of Mozambique launched a new cash-plus program in the northern region of Nampula consisting of cash transfers to mothers of children 0-2 years, nutrition behavior change communication and integrated case management for the most vulnerable families. AIR, UNICEF Innocenti & ELIM Servicios are evaluating the program, including measures of women's wellbeing, child protection and intra-household exposure to violence. Quantitative baseline data were collected in March - April of 2019 [© Zlata Brukauf]
NetGirls Zambia
[Non-research activities, with the Impact Network]
I co-founded a Netball league for young women & girls in rural Katete district in eastern Zambia with David Seidenfeld in 2013. I continue to support the league scale-up (on a voluntary basis), now in its 5th year & affiliated with the e-learning NGO the Impact Network managed by Elida Banda. We provide low cost opportunities for play to young women & girls, as well as cool projects like reusable menstrual pad workshops & financial literacy. Believer in the power of sport! [© Kristyn Ulanday]
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