In collaboration with the Numu Center for Education, the Nahda Research Program conducted an evaluation of the impact of the Senshri Tech (Century Tech) platform on improving students’ academic achievement, particularly in the Arabic language, as well as examining students’ levels of engagement and satisfaction with the platform.

 The team also explored how the platform could be effectively integrated into schools by surveying teachers’ perceptions and experiences.

 The study targeted primary school students in several private schools in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates.

 It was conducted during the second semester of the 2020–2021 academic year, which coincided with the period when schools were forced to close and shift to online learning due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Mustaqbali is a flagship program at Alnahda that offers guidance to young women who are in secondary education to prepare them for future pursuits and the transition into the labor market.

 The aim of the program is to support young female graduates to build personal skills, gain awareness of academic and career opportunities, as well as develop a feasible plan for their future.

 The program seeks to increase economic opportunities for women and ultimately raise female labor market participation.

 The Research Program is implemented a retrospective impact assessment of the Mustaqbali program.

 The overall goal of the assessment is to determine the medium-term impact of Mustaqbali on beneficiaries’ educational attainment, personal and professional development and access to the labor market.

 Additional aims are to determine who benefits most and least from Mustaqbali and how recipients perceive and benefit from their experience at Mustaqbali.

Past beneficiaries of the program were surveyed and compared to beneficiaries who did not participate in the program yet, who otherwise share very similar characteristics as their counterparts.

 The Research Program will also work with Mustaqbali team to set he grounds for more comprehensive and thorough impact evaluations in the future.

Khazna, first launched in 2017, aims to address the gap in financial literacy programs in Saudi Arabia by targeting women who are financial decision makers in lowincome households.

 The Research Program conducted a randomized controlled trial to determine the short and medium-term impacts of the program on the knowledge, attitudes and practices of participants as well as household financial outcomes.

 It also aimed to compare the impact of two versions of the program, to identify how best to design the course going forward.

 The comparison tests the impact of offering personal coaching, as opposed to traditional classroom lectures.

The study, led by Dr. Alessandra Gonzalez at the University of Chicago in collaboration with the Al-Nahda Society, aims to identify the entrepreneurial aspirations of high school female students from low-income backgrounds.

 This project falls under studies supported through the agreement between the Human Resources Development Fund and Harvard Kennedy School.

 The research specifically focuses on personal and social perceptions of entrepreneurship, as well as the characteristics that may influence the likelihood of engaging in entrepreneurial activities.

The study aims to measure the impact of commuting costs on women’s mobility behaviors, access to work, aspirations, and livelihoods.

Specifically, it examines the effect of providing financial support to cover the cost of driver’s license training at the Saudi Driving School.

 This project was conducted within the framework of research collaboration between the Human Resources Development Fund and Harvard Kennedy School.

 The team included academics from Harvard University and Duke University, in collaboration with the Al-Nahda Society.