In Conversation with Joy Kiiru: Connecting Research and Evidence to Policy 

The effective use of research can ignite a country’s growth and economic development. In many African countries, however, there is a disconnect between the research institutions that build evidence and the governments well-positioned to leverage research. Our Communications Team sat down with development economist and researcher Joy Kiiru to understand how to bring evidence and policy together.
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Digital Revolution: The Future of Higher Education in Liberia

After decades of instability, how can Liberia build a 21st-century learning environment for its higher education institutions?
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Ana de Paiva

Director of Operational Excellence, Connexi

Ana de Paiva is the director of operational excellence of Connexi, a Chemonics company. She has spent the last nine years working with USAID’s global health supply chains. She was first exposed to supply chain management…

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Better Data for Better Farms in Ghana

A new real-time data survey system is helping Ghanaian policymakers make more strategic decisions that will benefit the agriculture sector as a whole.
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Building a Future Above the Floodwaters

ASU anthropologists are tracking cultural shifts that could spell safety for Mozambique's coastal communities.
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Taking Flight

Communities across southern Africa are collecting information about the Limpopo River Basin and improving the lives of those who depend on the basin’s aquifers.
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