Article18 Dec 2025Verification as Governance: What third-party monitoring reveals that reporting hidesMost conversations about governance reform in fragile states begin with the wrong constraint. They assume the problem is design: the policy is poorly drafted, the inRead insight Insights
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Article18 Dec 2025Verification as Governance: What third-party monitoring reveals that reporting hidesMost conversations about governance reform in fragile states begin with the wrong constraint. They assume the problem is design: the policy is poorly drafted, the inRead insight 
Article21 Jan 2025The Data That Doesn’t Exist: Sizing markets and measuring growth where the statistics are thinThere is a question we get asked, in one form or another, on almost every economic assignment in the Horn: what is the number? How large is this market, how many firRead insight 
Article9 Oct 2024Measuring Human Capital When the Baseline Is Missing: Designing MEAL systems for systems change, not just output countsOpen almost any programme report in health, education, or social protection and you will find the same shape of evidence. People trained. Clinics built. Teachers depRead insight 
ArticleBankable, Not Just Fundable: Why climate finance stalls at the delivery line in fragile statesThe story we are told about climate finance and the poorest, most exposed countries is a story about scarcity. Not enough money is pledged, not enough of the pledgedRead insight