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Some of you may have seen this piece on the BBC about “How missing weather data is a ‘life and death’ issue”. It’s about tech start-up Kukua, and the weather stations they have installed in Tanzania to help provide local commercial farmers with better forecasts. Kukua is a business with a rather unusual business model: […]
It’s August 2013 and I’m about as broke as a ‘banker’ in London can be. I had eagerly taken up my first position in the big city: interning at RBS’ risk department. That’s right, I had made it to the big time… And then rent happened… And bills… So with accrued holiday time but no […]
I did my first, and possibly last, Ignite talk at Strata London recently. If you don’t know the format it goes like this: 5 minutes, 20 slides; the slides automatically advance every 15 seconds and you have to tell your story and finish on time. The story I was telling wasn’t about Acunu, nor even […]
Very exciting news! Evidence for Development have been nominated by the Reed Foundation to take part in this year’s Big Give. This means that any donation you make to EfD between Thursday 5th – Saturday 7th December should be DOUBLED! EfD aims to raise enough money to fund two promising students to study on key Master’s courses in Uganda, helping to build local expertise to fight poverty […]
All of us at Evidence for Development are delighted to be launching our new website (generously designed pro bono by an anonymous-for-the-moment friend), complete with a section for blog posts. We’ll use these blogs to share EfD news and insights, start new development debates or add our own perspectives to existing ones. We’re hoping to […]
“What’s the problem?” I can hear people ask. “Why do we need another organisation doing research into poverty?” The fact is that there is a serious lack of accurate evidence about how very poor people choose to use their limited resources to survive. And without this information, it is not easy to see how aid […]