Learning partnerships
We help our partners develop a deeper understanding of a particular topic or portfolio of work. We will often accompany our partners over the longer-term, building relationships, curating evidence, and sharing learning and insights to make evidence-informed decisions.
Project
Supporting the Mastercard Foundation to understand and improve impact
In collaboration with national partners, we are delivering targeted monitoring, evaluation and learning activities, capacity...
Project
Building ecologically and socially sustainable agriculture systems
Strategy, monitoring, evaluation, and lesson learning support for Porticus's Fair Rural Transitions programme.
Project
Supporting adaptive learning to promote a climate positive, inclusive economy
Evaluating the effectiveness of the Laudes Foundation’s strategy and providing learning points for continuous improvement to...
Project
USAID’s Equitable AI Challenge: Addressing Gender Inequity in Artificial Intelligence
We are working with AI tools used in low-and middle-income countries to understand biases in datasets and provide toolkits to...
Publications
Report
Learning brief: savings products for low income customers
Can these be provided sustainably and at scale? Read this learning brief to find out how some financial service providers are...
Report
Adolescents 360 Evaluation: Final Summative Report
This report presents the overall findings of the evaluation of the Adolescents 360 initiative (A360), which targeted...
Report
Savings Evidence Map
A collection of 380 studies on savings-focused financial inclusion from Mastercard Foundation’s Savings Learning Lab project.
Practice Paper
Learning at the speed of trust – Learning Brief
This is the second and final Learning Brief which aims to share lessons with the wider advocacy community from an innovative...
Blogs and news
Blog
What makes evaluations impactful?
Insights from a panel discussion as part of our first ever company-wide Knowledge and Learning Day.
Blog
Mainstreaming climate concerns into conflict-related evaluation work
Our work with UK Government is highlighting the value of applying a climate lens to conflict-related development programming.
Blog
Supporting climate justice through collaborative learning
Our work with Porticus is highlighting the value of collaborative learning to shape climate justice initiatives more...
Blog
Building women and girls’ resilience to climate change
Lessons from our work with partners on integrating sexual and reproductive health rights with climate change adaptation.