Launched in 2025 and anchored at the Blavatnik School, PROSPER is a collaboration between world-leading researchers and governments and NGOs in South Africa and Kenya, seeking to develop evidence-based interventions which can be delivered at scale to increase hiring and improve job quality.
Many firms struggle to expand, while capable jobseekers from disadvantaged backgrounds face steep barriers entering formal work. Welfare systems often reach too few or fail to help recipients transition to sustainable livelihoods. PROSPER tests scalable, evidence-based solutions – from smarter recruitment and job search tools to digitally enabled income support – to generate measurable gains for workers, firms, and economies.
