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The Partnerships for Improving Education (PIE) program works with school leaders, teachers, parents, government officials and communities to: encourage more children to enrol and stay in school, improve teachers’ professional development practices, and sustain education policy change to enhance teaching quality.

The evaluation of the Rheumatic Fever Strategy pilot program highlights the need for integrating primordial and primary prevention approaches.

Despite its post-conflict legacy and the 2015 earthquake, Nepal continues to achieve substantial health progress. Critical health indicators are improving, including under-five and maternal mortality rates, but there are dramatically changing burden-of…

The Australian Government’s Disaster Resilience Program Phase 2 supports Fiji to deliver on its priority of preventing new disaster risks and reducing existing disaster risks.

The Australia Fiji Education Program works with the Government of Fiji under the Vuvale Partnership to support quality education delivery.

Through its Investing in Women program, the Australian Government seeks to accelerate women's economic equality.

Abt recommended a variety of ways to improve the diagnostic journey for Tasmanians with a rare disease through a rare disease diagnostic care pathway.

The Governance in Development HelpDesk is a quick-turnaround source of governance advice for DFAT.

The Kokoda Initiative Partnership supports sustainable development of the Kokoda Track, protects the surrounding Owen Stanley Ranges and delivers a range of infrastructure projects.

Dr. Fiona Mactaggart is a multi-disciplinary technical advisor with more than 10 years of experience in monitoring, evaluation, research, and learning (MERL); infectious disease control; and public health. As a co-lead of Abt's MERL portfolio, she draws on complexity theory and scientific methods to help clients test what works, discover why it works, and provide timely evidence-based recommendations to inform important decisions about policy and practice. Mactaggart contributes to business development, programme delivery, and thought leadership. She works in five key areas: monitoring (e.g., design of digital tools and visualisation platforms) research (e.g., cross-sectional survey design), evaluation methodologies (e.g., contribution analysis), learning (e.g., portfolio level evidence-informed strategic decision making), and cross-cutting MERL capabilities (e.g., adaptive management and GEDSI). Mactaggart has worked extensively in the Pacific and Southeast Asia.