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Can machine learning double your social impact?

How can practitioners successfully use machine learning tools to save money and strengthen their services? IDinsight's leadership team reflects on our work with Educate Girls to share lessons learned on when and how to use machine learning in the Stanford Social Innovation Review

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Which communications platforms can help improve household nutrition in India?

We surveyed 6000 pregnant and lactating women for India’s Ministry of Women and Child Development to see which communication platforms most effectively reach these women with nutritional messages. Our evidence is being used to inform national-level social and behavioral change programming in India. Read about the findings in our policy brief.

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How to increase farmer adoption of hybrid seed

We found that selling hybrid seeds at the same time farmers sell their crops and have money, increases purchase of the seeds by 8 percentage points. Read a summary of the project on our blog and the  article in Oxford’s Journal of African Economies.

 

Banner Photo: Three women fishers and IDinsight Field Manager, Syed Maqbool, remove fish from cages as part of the Tata Trust Open-Source Fisheries data collection in Andhra Pradesh. Credit: Rob Sampson