Thank you to @RwandaICT for hosting our Executive Director Whitney Tate, faculty affilaite Andrew Zeitlin, and Rwanda Country Director @leo_mfura to discuss opportunities for collaboration in Rwanda.
Valuable exchange today with Prof. Andrew Zeitlin & Whitney Tate from @Georgetown's gui2de on harnessing data and emerging technology for smarter planning, evidence-based decision-making, and policy innovation and evaluation.
Better data. Better policy. Better outcomes.
@yves_Iradukunda@erasterurangwa
#DataDriven #PolicyInnovation #EmergingTech #Rwanda
1/2 Thrilled to participate in the first day of the fourth National Foundational Learning Symposium- The event gathers around 100 participants from government, development partners and academia
WEDNESDAY: For @CGDev & @gui2de_GU's Future of Development series, @arvindsubraman and Poonam Gupta join host @Shanta_WB to discuss the role of economic growth and convergence in the future of #development. #CGDTalks
Register here ⬇️
https://t.co/deBUS14Uxb
We are excited to announce that we have received awards from #DIVUSAID@USAID & @FundInnovDev for our project Supporting Teacher Achievement in Rwandan Schools (STARS), implemented in partnership with @poverty_action Rwanda.
https://t.co/BgmJoDATXo
https://t.co/Qv22AyWiFF
This funding will enable us to adapt, experiment, and scale STARS, a pay-for-performance teacher contract that rewards teachers in an effort to improve recruitment, motivation, retention, and learning outcomes.
In Kenya's 2022 presidential elections, @KOpalo sees potential for ongoing undermining of "the role of ethnicity in Kenyan politics." https://t.co/ZBqgoAQ5ww
STARTING NOW:📢 Join @CGDev and @gui2de_GU for a fascinating discussion on @gamblingondev's new book, "Gambling on Development." 📖
ft. @nomhossain @MasoodCGD & @Shanta_WB
Register here: ⬇️
https://t.co/gZ3lGntCXS
We are thrilled to host @gamblingondev for two of his events this week. Join us NOW on zoom for our joint Future of Development seminar with @CGDev, or Thursday in person at Georgetown University for our weekly gui2de development series.
TOMORROW: For the latest event in the Future of Development series, join @CGDev and @gui2de_GU for a fascinating discussion on @gamblingondev's new book "Gambling on Development." 📖
ft. @nomhossain @MasoodCGD & @Shanta_WB
Register here: ⬇️
https://t.co/xwBeoYbSdS
Join @CGDev & @gui2de_GU for the latest event in the Future of Development series.
@nomhossain & @MasoodCGD join host @Shanta_WB to discuss @gamblingondev's new book "Gambling on Development." 📖
#CGDTalks
Register here: ⬇️
https://t.co/xwBeoYbSdS
Tahir Andrabi, @gui2de_GU's Benjamin Daniels, and Professor Jishnu Das surveyed households 4 years after the “great” earthquake in Northern Pakistan, to learn how the earthquake affected families in the long run, after accounting for the effects of aid.
https://t.co/cxBdOfLfju
We are pleased to announce the start of our development seminar series today with @tom_vogl, who will present "Fertility and the Education of Parents and Children in Africa". Join us IN PERSON in ICC 550 at 12:30pm ET.
Informal public transit is booming in the developing world but so are accidents. Early work by Georgetown's @gui2de_GU has been influential in use of experiments to test options for making it safer. Thread from @davidfromterra reports on new and promising research results.
Join! This is where I argue that the root of all conflict, underdevelopment, and as policy is overcentralized power. How so much aid and diplomacy makes this worse. And why elections is a naive answer.
Join us and @CGDev TOMORROW, Tuesday May 10th, for the next seminar in the Future of Development series. @cblatts will discuss his new book "Why We Fight" with comments from @kcroninfurman. In person at Georgetown or virtually on zoom. Register here: https://t.co/ZiAU7cBQnE