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Discovering new ways of thinking with EfD
When I started my internship, I expected to work closely with a lot of data. However, what I never expected, was for how this opportunity changed the way I think, not just about development but about research itself. My internship was based on two vastly different contexts. The first was centred around the individual household […]
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12th May 2025
Seeing the Story Behind the Dataset: Perspectives from an Internship
While studying at King’s College London, having the opportunity to work with EfD has been one of the greatest honors and the most rewarding parts of my experience in the UK. I was initially drawn to EfD’s mission of providing reliable data for policymaking in developing countries. Throughout my academic and professional background, I’ve found […]
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Insights from an internship with Evidence for Development
One of the main reasons I applied for my Masters programme in Environment, Politics, and Development at King’s College London over other institutions was the opportunity offered to complete an internship placement module alongside my second semester of study, and I am pleased to say it was one of the best experiences of my degree. […]
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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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7th August 2019
Integrating hydro-climate science into policy decisions for climate-resilient infrastructure and livelihoods in East Africa
Hon James Acidri MP Keynote speech from the HyCRISTAL project meeting on 21 May 2019 in Kampala, Uganda In Kampala, we are now in our first rainy season, but these are not the rains that we used to know particularly in my own district, Maracha-West Nile region. Four years ago, the HyCRISTAL project was launched […]
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15th May 2018
Imagine all the snows of Mount Kilimanjaro had melted
At the HyCRISTAL AGM in Kampala last month, climate change researchers were talking about 40-year horizons, where we did an exercise in small groups to each imagine the consequences of one of a list of possible scenarios. We were given our scenario and asked to work back to what we would have to do now, […]
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27th March 2018
Being present and engaged: tools and training for researchers
Dr Lucy Wallace EfD Communications Manager | CSAT Programme Manager Research inevitably means we spend an awful lot of time working in one small area. The mystical ‘bigger picture’ is relatively distant, it’s something we refer to in grant applications, and we often don’t know where to start to attain the coveted ‘research into policy […]
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16th February 2018
Intern perspectives: My summer of data analysis with EfD
Andrew Armstrong I was working as a trainee Secondary School teacher in inner city London, coming to the end of my first year on the job. In the midst of a roller coaster, adrenaline-fueled term I felt I needed something of substance to add structure to my summer break. It was a strange thought, but […]
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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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5th October 2017
Considering the health sector as an important user of Hydromet information
In September, I was able to attend the AMCOMET, African Ministerial Conference on Meteorology, forum in Addis Ababa. The focus of the forum was Weather, Water, and Climate Services, and the contribution of these ‘hydromet’ services to wider social and economic development is becoming increasingly evident as the reality of climate change hits both urban […]
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28th September 2016
Measuring resilience to climate change in the Lake Victoria basin
Just over a year ago the UK Department for International Development (DfID), with the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) launched its ‘Future Climate for Africa’ (FCFA) project. This £20 million project, involving five research consortia, aims to “generate fundamentally new climate science focused on Africa, and to ensure that this science has an impact on […]
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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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30th July 2015
New HEA software developed by Evidence for Development
The household economy approach (HEA) is a method for assessing the vulnerability of rural populations to economic shocks and changes, based on their livelihood patterns and market information. It is now widely used as a method of famine early warning by many governments and humanitarian agencies, and also has important applications for managing the impacts […]
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16th April 2015
Postcard from Ethiopia: How to measure our impact
As an economist, I have always found it logical that NGOs should be expected to demonstrate the impact of their work. Once we have set our objectives, we need to know whether we are achieving them and how we might do better. That means measurement. At Farm Africa, we support smallholder farmers to increase their […]