Measurable impact across the continent.
Internationale Development Stories (IDS) supports governments, development institutions, and private sector actors to turn evidence into outcomes that hold.
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- Engagements · Outcomes · Methods
Twelve years of measurable outcomes.
- 32
- Countries across West, East, North & Southern Africa.
- 180+
- Engagements with governments, development institutions, and private sector actors.
- 40M+
- People reached through policy, programs, and systems we shaped.
- 12
- Years in practice building African evidence for African decisions.
FEATURED ENGAGEMENT
01 / Of the Archive
Rebuilding the evidence layer of Nigeria's primary healthcare system.
Working with the Federal Ministry of Health and three state governments, IDS designed and deployed a single reporting spine for primary healthcare — replacing parallel systems with one national dashboard.
18 min read
- Outcomes
- +42%
- Increase in PHC visits reported on time across pilot states
- 12,400
- Facilities now feeding a single national dashboard
- 3 → 1
- Parallel reporting systems consolidated into one
BROWSE BY SECTOR
06 PRACTICE AREAS- 01 Knowledge Management & Learning Systems 38 engagements
- 02 Digital Platforms & Innovation 22 engagements
- 03 Data-to-Decision Systems 31 engagements
- 04 Change Management & Institutional Transition 44 engagements
- 05 Research, Policy & Thought Leadership 27 engagements
- 06 Strategic Communications & Visibility 18 engagements
Selected engagements, 2019 — 2026.
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Data-to-Decision Federal Republic of Nigeria
Rebuilding the evidence layer of Nigeria's primary healthcare system.
Working with the Federal Ministry of Health and three state governments, IDS designed and deployed a single reporting spine for primary healthcare — replacing parallel systems with one national dashboard.
2026 Read -
Knowledge Management UNICEF Ethiopia
Designing a regional cold-chain audit for childhood immunisation.
Mapped 1,860 cold-chain points across 11 regions. Identified 23% loss of vaccine potency attributable to a handful of correctable failure points.
2024 Read -
Research & Policy World Bank Sahel
A climate-resilience financing strategy for six Sahel economies.
Modeled $4.2B in climate-aligned investment pathways. Adopted by three finance ministries as the basis for their medium-term expenditure frameworks.
2023 Read -
Change Management Republic of Rwanda
Standing up a national delivery unit inside the Prime Minister's office.
Built the operating model, dashboards, and cadence used to track 142 priority commitments across every ministry.
2022 Read -
Digital Platforms AfDB & Gov. of Kenya
Re-architecting an irrigation subsidy for 320,000 smallholder farms.
Replaced flat input grants with a yield-linked voucher. Crop revenues rose 31% in the first full season.
2022 Read -
Strategic Communications Gates Foundation
A continental visibility campaign for an African health financing facility.
Positioned a new financing facility across ministries, media and multilateral fora ahead of its first replenishment round.
2021 Read
- UNICEF
- World Bank
- African Union
- AfDB
- Gates Foundation
- UNDP
- Mastercard Fdn.
- USAID
- FCDO
- Rockefeller Fdn.
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