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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…

Seen but not heard: ethical considerations for inclusive research in the global south

“They (open-ended questions) are the best types of questions to use in research because they do not confine someone to a certain point, but instead, the person will have the…

Insurance bundled with loans: maximising smallholder farmer uptake of insured loans

The need for agricultural insurance cannot be understated, and with a whopping 97% of smallholder farmers in sub-Saharan Africa being uninsured (as at 2018), accessibility is priority. To this end, bundling…