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East African PIs and CEGA affiliates work together on new research on financial behavior in Ethiopia, malaria treatment in Uganda, and…

With schools closed for the entire academic year due to the coronavirus pandemic, solutions have emerged to provide lessons to students…

Recapping the history of the Working Group in African Political Economy (WGAPE), how it has adapted to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic…

Preliminary findings from the 18-month follow-up survey in Rwanda and how this methodology may inform how we measure the success of aid…

The founders of the Taimaka Project on how evidence inspired their approach and continues to inform their plans to scale

A survey of Ugandan students suggests that the COVID-19 pandemic has significantly affected students’ mental health and future plans.

Pastoralism is a livestock production system that has been carried out for millennia in some of the world’s harshest environments…

This post was written by Corey Murray, Senior Operations Associate at the Center for Effective Global Action (CEGA).

This post, written by CEGA program associate Anya Marchenko, is part of a series of posts on how the coronavirus pandemic is affecting…

This post was written by BITSS Senior Program Associate Aleksandar Bogdanoski and Program Manager Katie Hoeberling. The post is also…

This post, written by Opportunity Lab (O-Lab) Program Manager Joe Broadus, recaps a virtual conversation organized by O-Lab, CEGA, and…

A Meta-Analysis of Natural Experiments: A Discussion with Darin Christensen and Graeme Blair

Panel data evidence from Zimbabwe: A Discussion with Adrienne LeBas and Lauren Young

Study registries and pre-analysis plans are critical to ensuring that policymakers have access to coordinated, credible, and high quality…

Development Impact West Africa (DIWA) will provide training and networking opportunities to researchers and policymakers in Ghana

Research insights from the CEGA network may help inform government and NGO decision-making in the face of the coronavirus pandemic.

Quick pivots to research processes have allowed for real time data collection that can answer questions about resilience and recovery of…

Can a simple planning intervention help maize farmers in Zambia save more of their harvest for lean times?

Everywhere we look, markets are being transformed by new remote sensing technologies, digital data streams, and analytical approaches…

This post was written by CEGA Affiliate Simone Schaner (USC), with coauthors Rohini Pande (Yale) and Charity Troyer Moore (Yale). It was…

This post, written by Anthony Mveyange (EASST Fellow, TradeMark East Africa) and Andrew Mold (United Nations Economic Commission for…

Each semester, CEGA’s Global Networks program hosts impact evaluation training fellowships for researchers from East Africa and BRAC…

In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic and on this 50th anniversary of Earth Day, what might we do to help vulnerable populations through…

New research shows that the tradeoff between growth and ecological preservation is not always inevitable, and that we can design effective…

This post, written by Kelsey Jack, Associate Professor at the Bren School of Environmental Science and Management at UC Santa Barbara, is…

This post was co-authored by CEGA journalism intern Anne Daugherty and Operations Director Lauren Russell, with contributions from CEGA…

We moved a 300-person conference online in five days because of COVID-19. Here’s what we learned.

These short summaries of talks delivered at PacDev 2020 were written by CEGA staff with an introduction by Bilal Siddiqi, CEGA’s Director…