The hidden supply chain driving Koboko's climate crisis
The Koboko CRVA uncovered South Sudan's charcoal trade as an overlooked driver of forest loss in northern Uganda — a finding that did not appear in any official trade statistic.
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Practice notes, field observations, and data commentary from Nate Africa's assignments across Uganda, South Sudan, and East Africa. We write about what we find and how we find it.
How do you count jobs in a sector that barely keeps records?
Notes from building a bottom-up employment model for Uganda's dairy value chain. One definitional choice moved the headline figure by 2.4 million people — and it has nothing to do with any multiplier.
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M&E practice notes
Methods, tools, and frameworks from real assignments. What works, what breaks, and why the method matters as much as the headline.
Uganda and East Africa data
Commentary on development data from the region — what the numbers show, what they miss, and what they mean for programming.
AI in development research
How AI-assisted tools are changing fieldwork, data collection, and analysis — and where human judgement remains irreplaceable.
How-to guides for practitioners
Practical walkthroughs: KoboToolbox form design, SPSS workflows, questionnaire structuring, and data quality checks.
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