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By Siobhan McDonough, Lilian Lehmann, and Jeffery McManus
Since 2015, IDinsight has engaged governments and NGOs in embedded learning partnerships: we provide data-driven advisory services on clients’ most pressing questions in real-time. These long-term partnerships allow flexibility and innovation, since we can support several of a client’s highest-priority projects with whichever analytical tools best fit their needs. This post explores that process and the outcomes of a two-year learning partnership with UNICEF Kenya.
At IDinsight, we consider our work a success when clients use data to improve social sector programmes. As part of an embedded learning partnership with UNICEF Kenya, IDinsight found that a child-focused sanitation programme involving nutrition messaging had modest but statistically significant improvements on key sanitation and nutrition childcare knowledge and practices. Our evidence eventually informed UNICEF’s scale-up and revision of the programme…
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Photo: Caregivers in Kitui County, Kenya, discuss ways to improve sanitation and nutrition practices in their households to protect the health of their children. ©IDinsight/Gerishom Gimaiyo