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Financial Inclusion Week - Center for Financial Inclusion Financial Inclusion Week (FIW) is the leading industry event on inclusive finance, convened by Center for Financial Inclusion (CFI).

Busara joins this global convening as an FIW+ regional partner, bringing African perspectives and insights into the dialogue.

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Taking place October 6-9, 2025, Financial Inclusion Week is one of the largest virtual events in inclusive finance, bringing together thousands of practitioners, policymakers, and innovators.

Mario Schmidt, PhD: We cannot take one side only in participatory research. Bringing people together is crucial to create a common ground of understanding in communities and end competing interests.

#NISA2025 #NISAat10 #ImplementationScience

Arize Okafor: We should use feedback to make actionable changes and not assume that we know what the community needs better than them.
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Juhi Jain: Food often goes to waste because it looks “ugly.” Yet, this produce can still be cooked in different ways. Funny-looking food can be bundled at affordable prices or sold at a discount. 🍅🥕
#NISA2025 #NISAat10 #ImplementationScience

Juhi Jain: Communities are essential in co-designing interventions—especially in nutrition and food systems. They reveal how food is consumed across gender, age, and pricing, with clear examples in patterns of protein consumption.

If research doesn’t serve the people, who does it serve?

This session dives into participatory action research—with case studies from across Africa—showing how co-created evidence shapes policies & products people actually own, trust, and use. #BeSci #NISAConference

We explored how participatory methods in behavioral science ground evidence in people’s realities—shaping policies & products they trust and own.

📍 Robert Nyaga, PhD (Moderator)
🎙️ Mario Schmidt, PhD | Juhi Jain | Arize Okafor | Dr. Uchenna Okafor
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The Busara team joined the panel “Using Participatory Action Research to Unlock Impact.” at the NISA Conference.

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What are the barriers and enablers to the uptake of chisel ploughing? Visit the post for more.

Full Aha! Moment here:
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Special acknowledgment goes to the contributors: Laura Schun Geilager, Marilyn Moin, Wanjiku Kiarie, Mellan Lilumbi and Wairimu Muthike

With FIPS Africa & local blacksmiths, we built solutions to lower costs and improve access. Communities shape the future of farming when innovation meets collective action.

But challenges remain: clearing takes effort, tractors are limited, costs are high, terrain tough. Awareness alone is not enough.

In Kilifi & Makueni, farmers are shifting how they till. Research with 74 farmers shows social proof drives change. When they see neighbors’ yields rise with the chisel plough, they adopt too. A THREAD 🧵

New working paper led by Jaspreet Singh: osf.io/preprints/ps...

Some of you may know about repliCATS, in which (mostly Global North) experts used structured peer review to judge judge the credibility of behavioral research.

We used the same method with behavioral scientists from around Nairobi

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For one week, Nairobi became a hub for evidence, reflection, and collaboration.

At the just concluded ESA Africa Conference 2025 and Nairobi Evidence Week, we joined researchers, practitioners, and policymakers to ask hard questions—and search for better answers.

His call to action: invest in data collection, interpretation, and ownership, and ensure meaningful inclusion of the Global South in decision-making.
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#AES2025 #EvidenceForDevelopment

Ambassador Macharia Kamau delivered a powerful keynote: "Research by Africa, for Africa, with partnership from the world is not an option but a necessity."

Day 2 of #AES2025 Kicks Off!
Jennifer Nyakinya, Programs Manager at The Network of Impact Evaluation Researchers in Africa, got Day 2 of #AES2025 started, emphasizing the importance of evidence.

I’m excited to be presenting my research titled “Parental Pressure and Labor Market Outcomes: Experimental Evidence from Egypt” at #ESAAfrica2025, hosted in Nairobi by @busaracenter.bsky.social The ESA annual conferences are premier venues for experimental economics and behavioral science.

The 13th Africa Evidence Summit is live in Nairobi!

Theme: Better Data for Decision-Making 📊

Sessions on climate, agri, education, finance & more.

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#AES2025 #Evidence2025 #AfricaEvidenceSummit

Home page - esaafrica2025 ESA Africa, Busara Center, Join leading researchers, economists, scholars, and institutions from Africa and beyond at the ESA Africa Conference. This regional event fosters knowledge exchange and coll...

Follow the conversation on Busara’s official channels, for highlights from sessions, speaker insights, and reflections across both days.
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#ESAAfrica2025 #EvidenceToAction

The conference agenda focuses on new methodologies in experimental economics and how evidence from behavioral economics can be used to shape public policy and development

We are now one week away from #ESAAfrica2025. On June 26 and 27, leading voices in experimental and behavioral economics will converge in Nairobi to explore the application of evidence and experimentation to real-world challenges.

Africa is not a country, but what if we made it one? Channeling African similarities for comprehensive solutions. - Busara Growing up in Nigeria, I vividly remember how we would get beaten for incorrectly listing the seven continents of the world in our elementary Social Studies classes. One was not…

Ajibade contends that when the problems mirror each other, the solutions shouldn’t remain siloed by borders. What if these protests weren’t separate struggles—but parts of the same conversation?

Read his full article to explore this powerful rethink of African unity.
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From Nigeria’s #EndSARS to Kenya’s #RejectFinanceBill, youth-led protests are revealing something deeper: shared frustrations with governance, systemic injustice, and economic marginalization.

For decades, Africans have been taught to see themselves through national lenses—Nigerian, Kenyan, Ghanaian, and so on. But as Emmanuel Ajibade argues in his thought-provoking article, the lines between us may not be as stark as we believe.

Tackling drug abuse requires deep understanding of human behavior. This study on cognitive-autonomous motivation for alcohol-dependent patients shows how behavioral science crafts more effective interventions. #DrugAbusePrevention #PublicHealth
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On #WorldOceansDay, let's talk ocean health! 🌊 The upcoming @UNOceanConference (June 9-13) will feature 'Ocean Literacy and Conservation Dialogues.' Understanding human behavior is key to protecting our marine treasures. #sundayreads
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