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We've recently completed a thorough review of Laterite's data security requirements across the countries where we work. ❓If you're starting a research project in East Africa, Sierra Leone or Peru, and you're not sure which data security requirements apply to you 👉 our cheat sheet is a good place to start: https://bit.ly/4cqF3XT

❓What is an intelligent knowledge hub? 💡Intelligent Knowledge Hubs apply AI tools to organize and analyze curated data and information for a particular topic. 🛠️Laterite is building AI-powered intelligent knowledge hubs to curate and manage knowledge in the social impact sector. 📚EduStats is a proof of concept, built for the Rwandan Ministry of Education on a selection of documents regarding education statistics in Rwanda. See how it works below 👇 Interested to know more about intelligent knowledge hubs? Read our latest blog by Senior Research Associate John DiGiacomo: https://bit.ly/IKHblog

We are pleased to announce the Advisory Committee that will support the four participants of the ISL – Early Years in Kenya programme. The Committee comprises education leaders, technical experts, and funders who bring diverse expertise to guide the organisations on big-picture thinking, strategy, and connections for scaling their childcare programmes. Dale Barnhart, ScD is an epidemiologist and the Research Director at Laterite, a data, research and analytics firm in Africa. She leads projects located in Ethiopia and Kenya which focus on public health, women's empowerment, agriculture, and nutrition. Damaris Wambua is an Early Childhood Development (ECD) Specialist at ChildFund International, Kenya with 20 years of programming experience in ECD, education, and community development. Dr. Esther Gacicio is the Co-Founder and CEO of eLearning Solutions Limited. She is an eminent figure in the field of education technology, spearheading the design, delivery, and deployment of innovative learning and training solutions. George Kogolla is the Country Representative, Kenya & East Africa, IREX, a global development and education organisation experienced in leadership, strategy, partnerships, business and organisational development and project management. Joyce Wesonga is a Board member of the ECD Network Kenya. She has 15 years of experience working in ECD, literacy, basic education, health, nutrition and women empowerment in disadvantaged/marginalised communities. James F.O. K'Adede Hon'gs is the Grants Acquisition and Management Manager, ChildFund Kenya. He is a fundraising, partnerships, and resource development professional with 20 years experience. Kiko Muuo is the Founder and CEO of Angaza Elimu. He is an electrical engineer and a social entrepreneur who wants to address gaps in the education ecosystem using innovative education solutions. Nancy Mwali is the Finance and Administration Manager of the The Kilimanjaro Blind Trust, Africa, an organisation that supports the education and empowerment of blind and visually impaired children. She has 20 years experience in financial planning for non-profit organisations. Oscar Kadenge is the Director of Programmes, Parenting for Lifelong Health and the Board Chair, ECD Network Kenya. He specialises in transformational and adaptive leadership and helps nonprofit organisations with budgeting, coaching, and programme evaluation. Sane Mdlalose, GM, Adaptostrat Solutions, was previously the Chief Growth Officer at SmartStart South Africa. She has 23 years of experience in building winning growth plans across business pillars, bridging strategy to execution, and generating revenue growth. Reza Fazel is the Associate Partner of Open Capital, a financial advisory firm in Africa. At Open Capital, he focuses on designing and implementing innovative market system development approaches in the humanitarian context. Find out more about Lab-2 here: https://lnkd.in/eU8yrS9K

📕It's a bittersweet month as we wrap up six years of embedded research advisory & client-focused research for IGNITE with 60 Decibels and Tanager. 🤝Through this partnership, Laterite led M&E and research support to IGNITE’s stakeholders - African institutions focused on the agricultural sector. We led four mixed methods research projects in Tanzania and Ethiopia to generate evidence to support their gender and nutrition-sensitive agriculture programming. We also led a qualitative study in Nigeria to understand how time savings gained by the mechanization of farming tasks are being reallocated and if women or men are enjoying the benefits of that extra time. Laterite’s contribution to IGNITE also included 7 published case studies sharing lessons learned on gender and nutrition topics, like how to capture women’s voices in agricultural research. Read more about our IGNITE work here: https://lnkd.in/dAgR9rJT

Historical data for Secondary 3 students in Rwanda shows a persistent divide in the pass-rates between girls and boys in STEM subjects. Our colleagues Dimitri Stoelinga and Ilse Peeters Salazar looked into a wealth of data provided by the Rwandan Ministry of Education to investigate why. Their main conclusions are: 🏫 The gender gap in STEM is better explained by child-level factors compared to school-level factors 💡The gender gap is wider in high-performing schools 🍎 The higher the proportion of female teachers in teaching staff, the smaller the gap between girls and boys on STEM subjects Read the full policy brief: https://bit.ly/STEMexams #Education #Rwanda #STEM #Examinations #Research

📸¡Nuestro equipo en Perú 🇵🇪 está trabajando en sus primeros proyectos! En este momento nos estamos preparando para encuestas presenciales y telefónicas en todo el país, además de un estudio observacional sobre las prácticas de promoción de la salud de un nuevo servicio de telemedicina. ¡Esperamos compartir más sobre nuestro trabajo en Perú en los próximos meses! 📸 Our team in Peru 🇵🇪 is working on their first projects! Right now we're preparing for in-person and telephone surveys across the country, as well as an observational study on the health promotion practices of a new telemedicine service. We look forward to sharing more about our work in Peru in the coming months!

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The 2024 Africa Evidence Summit was an opportunity for us to feature three things: our solutions to methodological challenges, interesting research findings from our work and possible opportunities for scale. We're proud to have presented insights from four recent studies in Rwanda, Ethiopia and Tanzania: 💦 Using a geographic regression discontinuity to evaluate large-scale irrigation in Eastern Rwanda 🐮 Measuring dairy productivity's impact on dietary quality among Tanzanian farmers 𝄜 When administrative data isn't enough: a gridding technique for geospatial matching in Ethiopia 👩🏾🌾 Advancing gender equity justice through care-inclusive farmer field and business schools in Iringa region, Tanzania Interested to know more? Read the conference posters below 👇 Center for Effective Global Action (CEGA) The Network of Impact Evaluation Researchers in Africa Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation International Development Research Centre (IDRC) CARE Tanzania Tanager #AES2024 #Research #Africa #ImpactEvaluation

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Today is the last day of the 2024 Africa Evidence Summit in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. The team is glad to be a part of the event and share some of the work we're doing across East Africa. 👉 Kenya Research Director Dale Barnhart, ScD presents how we used geospatial matching techniques as part of our evaluation of the Women's Empowerment through Gender Transformative Market Opportunities (WEGO) program, evaluating whether CARE Ethiopia's Farmer Field and Business Schools improve women's empowerment and household income. (2nd photo) 👉 Research Analyst Ester Diarz talks about the evaluation we're conducting on CARE Tanzania's Farmer Field and Business Schools. We're trying to understand whether integrating care work modules into the curriculum can shift social norms and redistribute care work within agricultural households. (3rd photo) #AES2024 #Research #Africa #ImpactEvaluation