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Impact is an Inclusive Goal: working with pre-prints to increase access to research

Whether it is increasing access to reliable information in the wake of a pandemic or ensuring more farmers use agricultural insurance, our ultimate aim is to make people’s lives better in real and…

Assembly Line of Success: from the low-hanging fruit to long-term social change

Imagine waking up one morning with a burning desire to bring about social change in the developing world (for some of us, all over again). How many ways can you…

That Voice in Your Ear? It’s Community: establishing community as a pillar for moral decision making in East Africa

“A man who calls his kinsmen to a feast does not do so to save them from starving. They all have food in their own homes. When we gather…

New book marks unprecedented Busara collaboration

Press release New book marks unprecedented Busara collaboration (Nairobi) - February 7, 2023 Busara is announcing the publication of the book, Lives Amid Violence: Transforming Development in the Wake of…

Digital credit and gender: understand gendered and other imbalances in digital credit

Misdirection in magic happens when a magician moves the audience in one direction to keep them from seeing or noticing something else. The key to misdirection is that the audience…

Two truths and a lie: an experiment to evaluate behaviors in identifying online misinformation

‘Information pollution’, where facts and figures become a source of division in a society, has a huge impact on behavior, social cohesion, and public trust. When information is false or…

The cost and accessibility of digital credit: factors influencing the cost of digital credit in Kenya, Nigeria and India

When that short-term emergency loan to cover your dentist’s fees is quite literally a click away, the last thing on your mind is the steep Annual Percentage Rate (APR), or…

The true cost of quick cash: exploring biases and barriers in digital credit

Digital credit — easily understood as lending through digital platforms and applications — has seen rapid uptake among consumers in recent years. Driven primarily by partnerships between mobile network operators…

Prioritizing dignity in practice: understanding research dignity from the participant perspective

“It is easy to romanticize poverty, to see poor people as inherently lacking agency and will. It is easy to strip them of human dignity, to reduce them to objects…

Value and validation: how feedback enhances the quality of research outputs

If there’s one thing participants could change about research, it would be feedback. In a recent qualitative study, Busara’s research participants told us that they would want to learn the…