Chinmaya Holla

Researcher

Chinmaya Holla is a researcher, specializing in gender and social norms, women’s economic empowerment, education programming in humanitarian settings, and foundational learning. He supports quantitative research design, data collection and analysis for numerous projects and contributes to impact evaluations, evidence syntheses, and cost analyses. He has previously worked on projects related to education of forcibly displaced students in Jordan, Kenya, Sudan, and Rwanda. His work spans foundational learning projects in India, Sri Lanka, Senegal, DRC, and Liberia, women’s groups and gender norms projects in India, Nigeria, Bangladesh, Pakistan, and Uganda, and agriculture projects in India. His specialty is applying econometric methods to estimate the impact of development programs.

Previously, Holla has worked as a Mathematics and Science teacher at a public school in a low-income setting in India. He has presented his work at international conferences and authored peer-reviewed articles.

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Expertise
International
Gender Equality
International Education
International Foundational Learning

M.P.P., Georgetown University; B.Tech, National Institute of Technology Karnataka

Contact Chinmaya Holla

+1.202.403.5000
Related Work

Evidence Synthesis of the Sustainable Development Goal 17 Partnership Pillar

The 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) serve as an urgent call for action to encourage all countries to work on ending poverty while improving health and education, reducing inequality, stimulating economic growth, and addressing climate change. With the endpoint of 2030 approaching, it is critical to assess progress toward the ...
African child reading in a classroom

Supporting Multilingual Learning in Francophone Africa

The Global Partnership for Educations Knowledge and Innovation Exchange has commissioned AIR to generate and mobilize research to support language of instruction policies and practices in Francophone Africa, specifically in the Democratic Republic of Congo, Senegal, and Cote D’Ivoire. AIR’s focus is on generating evidence about when children are ready ...
Female Indian student in class

Supporting National Assessments in India

India’s Ministry of Education has set out to improve literacy and numeracy nationwide, with a focus on the foundational learning skills of all primary school students. UNICEF India commissioned AIR to assist in providing various levels of technical support on two key assessments, the National Achievement Survey and the ...
Women in an Indian self-help group

Evidence Consortium on Women's Groups

To counter socioeconomic and structural challenges in low- and middle-income countries, governments, development agencies, and nongovernmental organizations have invested in different types of women’s empowerment collectives (WECs), including economic self-help group programs and women’s groups practicing participatory learning and action. ...
Ukrainian woman reading with daughters

Humanitarian Education Accelerator

The Department for International Development, UNICEF, and the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees established the Humanitarian Education Accelerator (HEA), with the aim of understanding how to create the conditions necessary to scale existing pilot programs. In order to begin building the evidence base, the HEA engaged AIR to produce ...
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Social, Economic, and Environmental Impact Assessment of Cotton Farming in Madhya Pradesh, India

India is the largest producer of cotton in the world. AIR and its partners conducted a social, economic, and environmental impact assessment of cotton farming in Madhya Pradesh, with the aim of better understanding the outcomes for cotton farming on the farmers and the environment.

Language and the Learning Crisis: Evidence of Transfer Threshold Mechanisms in Multilingual Reading in South India

30 Jul 2018
Despite significant progress in school enrollment numbers, improvements in students' learning achievement have lagged behind in low- and middle-income countries. This paper examines when local language-speaking children in South India are ready to begin literacy acquisition in English (a second or later acquired language). ...

Evaluation of World University Service of Canada’s Remedial Education Program in Dadaab and Kakuma in Kenya

The challenges of providing quality education to refugees are particularly pronounced in Kenya, which hosts hundreds of thousands of refugees in Kakuma and Dadaab, the largest refugee camp complex in the world. AIR is partnering with the World University Service of Canada and its local partner Windle Trust Kenya to ...

Evaluation of Generation Rwanda’s Kepler Program

The Kiziba Refugee Camp in western Rwanda houses primarily Congolese refugees who fled the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) in 1996. Of the more than 17,000 refugees, over 8,100 of these are youth under the age of 18, the majority of whom have lived in the camp since birth. ...

Impact Evaluation of an Affordable Housing Program in India

In the absence of viable affordable housing policies, the percentage of India’s urban population that cannot afford a home will increase substantially in the next couple of years. AIR is examining the impact of a program, developed by the UK Government and the Indian National Housing Bank, that focuses on ...