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Andrew Fraker is a Founding Partner of IDinsight. He is leading evaluations of interventions designed to reduce fund leakage and improve beneficiary nutrition in Bihar, along with other health and education evaluations in India and Uganda. Prior to IDinsight, Andrew has significant research experience with MIT’s Jameel Poverty Action Lab (JPAL) and the Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH). Andrew coordinated randomised controlled trials in health and education for JPAL in India and was the editor of JPAL’s global staff manual on conducting field experiments. At HSPH, he analysed a health care delivery experiment in rural China and was the co-author of a World Bank book chapter on social health insurance in Kenya.
Andrew holds a B.A. in economics from Princeton University, and an M.P.A. in International Development (MPA/ID) from Harvard Kennedy School.
Posts by Andrew Fraker
Intervention design of Integrated Performance Management System (IPMS) for ICDS
Leakages from the Integrated Child Development Scheme (ICDS) have compromised the effectiveness of the programme. The study proposed a new design for an effective monitoring system for the ICDS progra...
- Ronald Abraham Andrew Fraker
- 15 September, 2014
- IGC Research on India
Bihar's malnutrition crisis and potential solutions
The prevalence of underweight children in Bihar is higher than in any country in the world, and the provision of public services to address malnutrition is poor. Based on an assessment of the governm...
- Ronald Abraham Andrew Fraker
- 24 May, 2013
- Articles
Quantitative Baseline Assessment of Child Nutritional Status and Performance of ICDS Supplementary Nutrition Programme in Bihar
There are no easy solutions guaranteed to reduce leakage and increase the provision of nutritious food to Bihar’s millions of malnourished children and mothers. The quantitative assessment in this p...
- Ronald Abraham Andrew Fraker Neil Buddy Shah
- 15 December, 2012
- IGC Research on India