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16th June 2023
Can Machine Learning be used to help rural communities adapt to Climate Change?
William Shields, Celia Petty & Dai Clegg Evidence-for-Development (EfD) aims to reduce poverty by improving the quality and effectiveness of livelihood information available to decision makers at every level, from local to global, and to researchers working across multiple disciplines . Focusing currently on sub-Saharan Africa, EfD combines high tech innovation with on-the-ground experience. We […]
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2nd May 2023
Intern Perspectives: Uploading Data – The Unexpected Highlight of My Internship
Allison Glover As a graduate student in Sustainable Cities at King’s College, London, I was eager to gain practical experience in the development field and to improve my data analysis skills. That’s why I chose to intern at Evidence for Development (EfD), an organization that values high-quality data to support development projects. Working with a […]
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23rd November 2017
How new technologies can make a difference to rural smallholder farmers.
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: […]
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23rd September 2015
Banking on Evidence for Development – a month in the life of a volunteer
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 […]
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9th January 2014
Big data, climate change and developing economies: predictive modeling for improved lives
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 […]
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2nd December 2013
Evidence for Development’s BIG GIVE Christmas Challenge!
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 […]
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27th November 2013
The Evidence for Development blog – a quick introduction
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 […]
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27th November 2013
Introducing (or reintroducing) Evidence for Development
“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 […]