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OUR IDEAS
Improving access to electricity through decentralized renewable energy
Despite significant efforts, access to electricity remains inadequate across Sub-Saharan Africa and India. Of the over 1,27 billion people living in Sub-Saharan Africa in 2016, roughly 65% did not have access to electricity. India has made considerable strides in village-level...
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The five-minute loan
We recently met Ajay, a fruit vendor in Mumbai who struggles to pay the 60 percent annual interest rate on a loan from his local money lender. Ajay was saddled with this debt, unable to refinance or raise more capital...
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A Group of Visionaries Turn a Dream into Reality
On International Women’s Day, we celebrate the achievements of the Women’s Investment Club Senegal over the past year, and look forward to expanding the initiative across Francophone West Africa. Who would have thought that a simple lunch meeting between businesswomen would...
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A simple way for governments to help the poor and the environment
Around 85 million people in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) still cook with wood, charcoal and other solid fuels. These traditional cooking techniques have dire effects on users’ health, environment and productivity. Traditional cookstoves are causing a quiet epidemic among the...
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Indian diaspora philanthropyindian-diaspora-philanthropy
Dalberg was engaged by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation to explore opportunities to catalyze philanthropic giving to India by high net worth individuals in the Indian diaspora. Our research focused on four countries – the US, UK, UAE, and...
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Data Sources
At Dalberg Data Insights, our unique approach to challenging development questions combines big data with ground-truth information to deliver trust-worthy insights that solve real-world problems.
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Why Human-Centered Design is Critical to Preparing for Global Health Epidemics
With the announcement of a viable Ebola vaccine coming almost three years after the Ebola outbreak began, questions around how prepared we are to fight future pandemics remain unanswered. The vaccine stands out as one of the only concrete advancements...
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Multi-stakeholder initiatives: lessons from agriculture
PREFACE There is now broad consensus that it will be impossible to achieve more inclusive and sustainable growth without scaling the practice and effectiveness of multi-stakeholder initiatives among companies, governments and civil society organizations. The United Nations 2030 Agenda for...
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New Report: Financing Sustainable City Cancer Treatment Infrastructure
This blog draws on findings from a new report from Dalberg and the Union for International Cancer Control (UICC), ‘C/Can 2025: City Cancer Challenge – Financing Sustainable City Cancer Treatment Infrastructure’. The publication was released at Davos, the World Economic...
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Behavioral model for financial health
Working together with the Center for Financial Services Innovation & the Center for Financial Inclusion at Accion, Dalberg Design sought to understand whether a global version of their financial health framework could advance our collective understanding of consumer behavior and deepen...
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Ready, Set, Launch
Ready, Set, Launch aims to support strategic and targeted planning for the introduction and scale of global health innovations, with a sharp focus on employing methods that fit the local context of the communities in which we work. Global health...
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Small merchants, big opportunity
The forgotten path to financial inclusion More than 180 million micro and small merchants operate across the developing world While individually these businesses are small, their influence within the global economy is significant: They transact over $6.5 trillion per year...
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