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A long-form report drawing on fieldwork across the Sahel, the Horn, and Southern Africa — examining how locally held knowledge is already doing the work global frameworks promise.
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A long-form report drawing on fieldwork across the Sahel, the Horn, and Southern Africa — examining how locally held knowledge is already doing the work global frameworks promise.
Why the next generation of agricultural policy in West Africa depends on a kind of data we don't currently collect.
A four-country review of public-sector performance frameworks — and what donors keep getting wrong about them.
A decade of WASH data, retold by the engineers who actually visit the pumps.
Why off-grid solar deployments in seven African markets are outpacing utility-scale plans.
A multi-year synthesis of household, district, and ministry datasets across eleven Sahelian countries — and what they imply for the coming policy cycle.
What it takes to move a ministry from spreadsheets to a maintained, queryable evidence base — and who pays for the upkeep.
How institutions actually reorganise after a shock — and why the reforms that survive are rarely the ones that were planned.
Twelve districts, four years, and a question worth asking: what happens to a household after the programme ends?