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Using technology to reach farmers at a low cost

New research shows videos, combined with voice messages, can help farmers learn and adopt new techniques in Andhra Pradesh.

2 February 2021

Four challenges (and solutions) to conducting phone surveys in a refugee settlement

The feedback from enumerators who switched from in-person to phone surveys during COVID-19 provides valuable insights to strengthen phone surveys.

28 January 2021

IDinsight launches a new interactive data dashboard illustrating the impact of COVID in rural India

The new dashboard illustrates survey results from six states collected between March - September 2020.

27 January 2021

IDinsight’s CEO Ruth Levine reflects on 2020

17 December 2020

Top five most-read blogs of 2020

16 December 2020

New evidence: conditional cash transfers increase immunization coverage in North West Nigeria

A clustered RCT shows that the New Incentives — All Babies Are Equal Initiative’s conditional cash transfer program increased immunization.

13 November 2020

Can training increase migrant workers’ use of digital payment apps? Hint: it’s not what you think

Our RCT showed training only slightly increased migrants’ use of digital payments due to other barriers.

14 October 2020

Should we to return to in-person work?

IDinsight built a data-driven framework to guide our teams on whether, when, and how to return to their offices.

6 October 2020

When to collect baseline data; and when not to — Part 2

Part two in our series about baseline data shares when it is worth investing in baseline data, and when the costs don’t outweigh the benefits.

21 September 2020

Reflections on reaching women over the phone in rural India

The Data on Demand team shares experiences from attempts to reach women over the phone.

31 August 2020