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Over the past decade, social scientists and technologists have made significant advancements in transparency and reproducibility: from data and code sharing to pre-analysis plans and replication in...

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Meet Naelijwa Mshanga, a Spring 2026 Resident Fellow. Naelijwa is a Tanzanian nutritionist and lecturer in human nutrition at Mbeya University of Science and Technology. She holds a PhD in Human ...

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DID 2026 convened African and global leaders to highlight how GIS, remote sensing, mobile data, and emerging computational methods can transform decision-making across sectors—from agriculture and ...

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Meet Justina Onumah, a Spring 2026 CEGA Fellow completing her resident fellowship with the Global Poverty Research Lab at Northwestern University. Justina is a Principal Research Scientist and Hea...

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We’re excited to introduce our Spring 2026 Fellows! The CEGA Fellowship Program supports early-career African researchers with the tools, mentorship, and funding to conduct rigorous, policy-releva...

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Research to Action for Resilient Agriculture Session 3: Balancing Small-Scale Irrigation Solutions with Sustainable Groundwater Use With freshwater supplies under increasing pressures, agrifood s...

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Research to Action for Resilient Agriculture Session 1: Leveraging Digital Technology to Address Weather Based-Risk Small-scale farmers are among the most vulnerable to climate change. Unpredicta...

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The Togo Data Lab is a partnership with the Government of Togo’s Ministry of Digital Economy and Transformation to accelerate the country’s leadership of publicly-led data science innovation. In th...

The Center for Effective Global Action (CEGA) is a research and innovation hub at the University of California, Berkeley that generates insights and tools to reduce global poverty and improve lives...

Interdisciplinary research is providing new insights into the psychological consequences of poverty and downstream impacts on social and economic development. Through collaborations across psycholo...

Interdisciplinary research is providing new insights into the psychological consequences of poverty and downstream impacts on social and economic development. Through collaborations across psycholo...

Interdisciplinary research is providing new insights into the psychological consequences of poverty and downstream impacts on social and economic development. Through collaborations across psycholo...

Interdisciplinary research is providing new insights into the psychological consequences of poverty and downstream impacts on social and economic development. Through collaborations across psycholo...

Interdisciplinary research is providing new insights into the psychological consequences of poverty and downstream impacts on social and economic development. Through collaborations across psycholo...

Interdisciplinary research is providing new insights into the psychological consequences of poverty and downstream impacts on social and economic development. Through collaborations across psycholo...

Interdisciplinary research is providing new insights into the psychological consequences of poverty and downstream impacts on social and economic development. Through collaborations across psycholo...

Interdisciplinary research is providing new insights into the psychological consequences of poverty and downstream impacts on social and economic development. Through collaborations across psycholo...

Interdisciplinary research is providing new insights into the psychological consequences of poverty and downstream impacts on social and economic development. Through collaborations across psycholo...

Interdisciplinary research is providing new insights into the psychological consequences of poverty and downstream impacts on social and economic development. Through collaborations across psycholo...