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IDinsight
Formation2011
ServicesConsultancy, Policy Research Organization
CEO
Neil Buddy Shah
Key people
Ronald Abraham, Andrew Fraker, Esther Wang, Paul Wang
Staff
65
Websitewww.idinsight.org

IDinsight is a non-profit global development consulting firm helping global development practitioners increase their impact using rigorous evidence.[1]

Mission and history

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IDinsight was founded in 2011 by Andrew Fraker, Neil Buddy Shah, Esther Wang and Paul Wang.[2] IDinsight's mission is to help leaders in government, NGOs, foundations and social businesses generate and use rigorous evidence to improve their social impact. The firm works in Asia and Africa, across a wide range of sectors, including access to finance, agriculture, education, energy, gender, governance, livelihoods, health, water and sanitation. IDinsight has offices in India (Delhi and Vijayawada), Kenya (Nairobi), the United States (San Francisco) and Zambia (Lusaka), and client engagements in more than a dozen countries.[3]

Activities

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IDinsight initially sought to make rigorous impact evaluation methods – including, but not limited to, randomized controlled trials – more demand-driven, affordable, and fast, so that they could be used as practical decision-making tools by implementing NGOs, social businesses and governments.[4]

IDinsight’s first engagement, with iDE in Cambodia, demonstrated this concept. IDinsight conducted a randomized trial to test the relative effectiveness of a marketing and information campaign vs. providing financing in increasing sales and usage of low-cost hygienic latrines in rural Cambodia.[5] Subsequent early engagements, with governments in India and Zambia, utilized randomized trials to inform these governments’ decisions, on a range of policy issues including maternal mortality,[6] insecticide treated antimalarial bednet distribution,[7] early infant diagnosis of HIV, and reducing leakage in government programs.[8] IDinsight has also helped governments design policy interventions using the principles of behavioral economics, as highlighted in the World Bank's 2015 World Development Report.[9]

Partners and Clients

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Learning Partnerships

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Since its inception, IDinsight’s model has evolved from rapid, one-off impact evaluations focused on informing a single policy decision, to longer-term sustained “learning partnerships,” involving a broad suite of quantitative tools. Current learning partnerships include:

  • UNICEF[10]
  • Government of Andhra Pradesh, India
  • Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation agriculture unit[11]
  • Government of Bihar, India’s Department of Energy

Clients

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IDinsight has worked 40+ clients,[12][13] including the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation[10][11], World Bank[14][15], Kepler[16], and One Acre Fund.[17] IDinsight has also worked with The International Initiative for Impact Evaluation (3ie),[18] the Clinton Health Access Initiative[19], and other NGOs and non-profits in various capacity as partners.

Awards and recognition

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IDinsight Founding Partners have been named as Forbes “Top 30 under 30” social entrepreneurs,[4] Echoing Green fellows, PopTech Social Innovation fellow,[20] and Rainer Arnhold fellow.[21] IDinsight was named a “Best Idea of the Year” in Foreign Policy Magazine Top 100 Global Thinkers Issue.[22]

Funding

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IDinsight is a client-service organization and receives most funding from client engagements. IDinsight has received external funding from GiveWell, [23] the Mulago Foundation,[24] and other sources.

References

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  1. ^ "IDinsight | About Us". idinsight.org. Retrieved 2016-10-12.
  2. ^ Nadis, Steven. "Trial Run". Harvard Kennedy School Magazine. Retrieved 2016-10-04.
  3. ^ Gunther, Marc (2016-07-06). "Data at the Speed of Life". The Chronicle of Philanthropy. Retrieved 2016-10-04.
  4. ^ a b Lane, Randall. "Forbes 30 Under 30: Neil Buddy Shah, 29". Forbes. Retrieved 2016-10-04.
  5. ^ BenYishay, Ariel; et al. (September 2016). "Microcredit and Willingness to Pay for Environmental Quality: Evidence from a Randomized-Controlled Trial of Finance for Sanitation in Rural Cambodia" (PDF). Retrieved 3 October 2016. {{cite web}}: Explicit use of et al. in: |first= (help)
  6. ^ Wang, P.; Connor, A. L.; Guo, E.; Nambao, M.; Chanda-Kapata, P.; Lambo, N.; Phiri, C. (2016-04-01). "Measuring the impact of non-monetary incentives on facility delivery in rural Zambia: a clustered randomised controlled trial". Tropical medicine & international health: TM & IH. 21 (4): 515–524. doi:10.1111/tmi.12678. ISSN 1365-3156.
  7. ^ Wang, Paul; Connor, Alison L.; Joudeh, Ammar S.; Steinberg, Jeffrey; Ndhlovu, Ketty; Siyolwe, Musanda; Ntebeka, Bristol; Chibuye, Benjamin; Hamainza, Busiku (2016-01-01). "Community point distribution of insecticide-treated bed nets and community health worker hang-up visits in rural Zambia: a decision-focused evaluation". Malaria Journal. 15: 140. doi:10.1186/s12936-016-1165-1. ISSN 1475-2875.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: unflagged free DOI (link)
  8. ^ Fraker, Andrew; Shah, Neil Buddy (February 2013). "Quantitative Assessment: Beneficiary Nutritional Status and Performance of ICDS Supplementary Nutrition" (PDF). The IGC.
  9. ^ Bank, World (2014-12-04). World Development Report 2015: Mind, Society, and Behavior. World Bank Publications. ISBN 9781464803437.
  10. ^ a b "OPP1124645". Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Retrieved 2016-10-04.
  11. ^ a b "OPP1129552". Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Retrieved 2016-10-04.
  12. ^ "Agents of Change: A guidebook of resources for non-profits in India to go from small to scale" (PDF). Dasra. January 2016. Retrieved 2016-10-13.
  13. ^ "IDinsight | Partner Organizations". idinsight.org. Retrieved 2016-10-13.
  14. ^ "Non-Financial Extrinsic and Intrinsic Teacher Motivation in Government and Private Schools in India". World Bank. Retrieved 2016-10-13.
  15. ^ "Evaluations - Education". World Bank. Retrieved 2016-10-13.
  16. ^ "Kepler - Higher education for all | Results". www.kepler.org. Retrieved 2016-10-13.
  17. ^ "One Acre Fund Program Evaluation: Analysis and Results" (PDF). One Acre Fund. IDinsight. 2015-02-27. Retrieved 2016-10-13.
  18. ^ Leiby, Kevin; Connor, Alison; Tsague, Landry; Sapele, Crispin; Kaonga, Albert; Kakaire, Joshua; Wang, Paul (10 March 2015). "Measuring the Impact of SMS-Based Interventions on VMMC Uptake in Lusaka Province, Zambia" (PDF). UNICEF. International Initiative for Impact Evaluation (3ie). Retrieved 2016-10-13.
  19. ^ "Evaluation of the 3DE Pilot". Oxford Policy Management. Retrieved 2016-10-13.
  20. ^ "PopTech: People: Esther Wang". PopTech. Retrieved 2016-10-04.
  21. ^ "Buddy Shah". mulagofoundation.org. Retrieved 2016-10-04.
  22. ^ "The FP Top 100 Global Thinkers". Foreign Policy. Retrieved 2016-10-04.
  23. ^ "IDinsight—General Support (2016) | GiveWell". GiveWell. Retrieved 2016-10-13.
  24. ^ "IDInsight". mulagofoundation.org. Retrieved 2016-10-13.


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