Limestone Analytics provides a range of analytical advisory services across the project and policy cycle to improve the value obtained from every dollar spent.
🚀 Limestone Analytics has used the Unified Cost-Benefit Analysis (UCBA) Guidelines for years—now we’re sharing them with you!
🔹 Why UCBA?
✅ Standardizes workflows for CEA, CBA & VfM
✅ Boosts transparency & accountability
Read more here: https://t.co/A4xGcgOWeK
Air pollution caused 8.1M deaths globally in 2021 & impacts low- & middle-income countries the most. 🌍 Limestone has helped design a protocol for @MCCgov to integrate air pollution impacts into project cost-benefit analyses, advancing sustainable & equitable global development.
Join us at the 2024 @benefitcost Annual Conference on Tuesday, March 19, for our presentation with @worldvisioncan on applying evidence-based decision-making in international development. Learn how we’re breaking new ground in expanding impact analysis within NGOs. See you there!
Dive into "The Power of Combining Ex-Ante and Ex-Post Impact Analysis", our most recent Impact Blog by @BahmanKashi, Founder and President. Discover how this approach can enhance decision-making in international development. Read now: https://t.co/uOXcE8krXq
@worldvisioncan's investment in emergency food assistance generates two dollars for every dollar spent!
Click here to learn more about Limestone’s economic analysis of World Vision Canada’s partnership with the World Food Programme: https://t.co/7b7MV19zec
Unlock Literacy: Making a profound impact!
@worldvisioncan's investments in literacy generate benefits that are 7X greater than the cost!
Click to learn more about Limestone’s CBA and CEA of these investments: https://t.co/lAROL59b0A
The global cost of not protecting children stands at about 4.5X Canada’s GDP! Click here to learn more about Limestone's comprehensive estimation for @worldvisioncan: https://t.co/clrV91GFw1
Effective program design begins with impactful, sustainable, and inclusive engagement.
To better understand Early Childhood Education and Development in Latin America and the Caribbean, Limestone has been hired to conduct a landscape assessment for @EDCtweets and @USAID.
How can practitioners bring risk and uncertainty to value-for-money and cost analyses?
Limestone's latest blog post explores the ways an integrated analysis of risk and uncertainty can provide greater insights for decision-makers compared to determinist analysis.
Earlier this year alongside @IntegraLLC and @GeoPoll, Limestone supported the development and administration of @USAID's West Africa Women’s Entrepreneurship (WAWE) Survey in Benin, Côte d'Ivoire, and Togo. Click below to learn more about the project: https://t.co/PL4cCCbbt5
There are various methods for the analysis of risk and uncertainty, but how can we combine them to properly integrate into cost-benefit analysis?
Click here to learn more about the guide produced by Limestone under USAID’s LEAP III project: https://t.co/ucX1z0hjaK
Interested in learning more about CBA at USAID? Limestone’s @BahmanKashi and @rachelbahn, and @USAID colleagues Eric Hyman and Camille Parker will be presenting at the upcoming Society for Benefit-Cost Analysis Annual Conference (SBCA 2023) this week!
The session will review a recent assessment of USAID’s CBA guidelines (https://t.co/9G8bnRREf0), examples of how USAID utilizes CBA in its programming, and a sneak peek at upcoming plans.
and premature mortality, and institutional recommendations for increasing the use of CBA to inform decisions. Click here to learn more about Limestone’s work and access the report: https://t.co/9G8bnRSc4y
“The context for CBA and CEA has evolved considerably within and outside USAID…”
Limestone’s assessment of @USAID's CBA Guidelines was recently published, recommending updates to the guidelines, discussing the choice of discount rates, the social cost of carbon, valuing time...
This project involved designing user-friendly dashboards and training materials for non-economists to use the CBA models throughout the refinement and implementation stages of the activities. Click below to learn more about this project and its findings.
https://t.co/DDhuzfLUZT
Limestone recently wrapped up 12 cost-benefit analysis models for two markets & nutrition activities within USAID's Resilience in the Sahel Enhanced (RISE) II Initiative, operating in Burkina Faso and Niger.