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At Dalberg Data Insights, our unique approach to challenging development questions combines big data with ground-truth information to deliver trust-worthy insights that solve real-world problems.
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Why Human-Centered Design is Critical to Preparing for Global Health Epidemics
With the announcement of a viable Ebola vaccine coming almost three years after the Ebola outbreak began, questions around how prepared we are to fight future pandemics remain unanswered. The vaccine stands out as one of the only concrete advancements...
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Multi-stakeholder initiatives: lessons from agriculture
PREFACE There is now broad consensus that it will be impossible to achieve more inclusive and sustainable growth without scaling the practice and effectiveness of multi-stakeholder initiatives among companies, governments and civil society organizations. The United Nations 2030 Agenda for...
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New Report: Financing Sustainable City Cancer Treatment Infrastructure
This blog draws on findings from a new report from Dalberg and the Union for International Cancer Control (UICC), ‘C/Can 2025: City Cancer Challenge – Financing Sustainable City Cancer Treatment Infrastructure’. The publication was released at Davos, the World Economic...
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Behavioral model for financial health
Working together with the Center for Financial Services Innovation & the Center for Financial Inclusion at Accion, Dalberg Design sought to understand whether a global version of their financial health framework could advance our collective understanding of consumer behavior and deepen...
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Ready, Set, Launch
Ready, Set, Launch aims to support strategic and targeted planning for the introduction and scale of global health innovations, with a sharp focus on employing methods that fit the local context of the communities in which we work. Global health...
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Small merchants, big opportunity
The forgotten path to financial inclusion More than 180 million micro and small merchants operate across the developing world While individually these businesses are small, their influence within the global economy is significant: They transact over $6.5 trillion per year...
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Dakar resilience strategy
By joining 100 Resilient Cities - pioneered by The Rockefeller Foundation, Dakar hopes to accelerate its evolution to become a model African city, which will have successfully aligned its rich heritage to opportunities that the 21st century offers. Dakar is...
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Protecting tigers from Asia’s infrastructure development boom
This blog draws on findings from a new report from Dalberg and WWF — Protecting Tigers from Asia’s Infrastructure Development Boom. Tigers have travelled a rocky road over the past hundred years. Decimated from rampant poaching and merciless habitat destruction,...
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Don’t forget our oceans on #GivingTuesday
The importance of the world’s oceans, and the challenges they face cannot be understated. Oceans are home to the earth’s most diverse ecosystems, and are crucial to fighting climate change as they absorb 30% of the CO2 in the atmosphere....
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Towards a cashless society
How India Stack can help persuade merchants to adopt digital payment It has been more than three weeks since the Prime Minister announced that Rs500 and Rs1,000 notes would be demonetised. And despite the rhetoric, its effects appear not so...
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Financial Inclusion Fit to Size: Customizing Digital Credit for Smallholder Farmers in Tanzania
Digital credit products represent an important financial inclusion opportunity for smallholder farmers in Tanzania, where close to 80% of the workforce is engaged in farming. Uptake of these products by smallholder farmers, however, remains limited. To address this challenge, Dalberg's...
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