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Edutainment Model Shakes Up—and “Shapes Up”—International Development Communications

Do you watch Shamba Shape Up? “I actually have an alarm set,” said Evah Kinyua, a farmer in Ngong, Kenya. “We have phone alarms for Saturday and Sunday. And one Sunday [the alarm] goes off in church, and then my husband whispers to me, ‘We have to leave...

Digital Agriculture Gender Digital Divide
Blog

USAID/Microsoft Airband Initiative: M-KOPA Factsheet

M-KOPA is an African fintech platform providing digital financial services to underbanked consumers. Through its partnership with the USAID/Microsoft Airband Initiative, M-KOPA increased Kenyan women’s access to affordable smartphones, advancing women’s ec...

Gender Digital Divide
Fact Sheet

USAID/Microsoft Airband Initiative: Mawingu Factsheet

Kenyan company Mawingu Networks provides Internet connectivity to the most underserved areas in Africa. Through its partnership with the USAID/Microsoft Airband Initiative, Mawingu expanded inclusive service offerings to women across areas of coverage. The...

Gender Digital Divide
Fact Sheet

Digital Technologies Improve Water Access Efficiencies in Kenya

Led by Millennium Water Alliance, the Kenya Resilient Arid Lands Partnership for Integrated Development (RAPID) is a five-year USAID program that increases communities’ access to water services in northern Kenya....

Digital Agriculture
Fact Sheet

Using a Digital Game to Strengthen the Design and Update of Pastoralist Index Insurance

The Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Markets, Risk, and Resilience (MRR Lab) developed an experimental, digitized game to try to make the value proposition for insurance more relatable to pastoralists....

Digital Agriculture
Fact Sheet