Laterite’s work builds on more than ten years of experience in data collection and development research in East Africa. We work on projects focused in countries where we have an established presence: Ethiopia, Kenya, Rwanda, Tanzania and Uganda in …

Laterite collected data on maternal and newborn health in Kenya. We share strategies to reduce participant attrition in longitudinal studies.

Using a gridding technique on geospatial data, Laterite is leading an impact evaluation on a gender and agriculture project in Ethiopia.

Over the past five years, Laterite and the Research for Equitable Access and Learning (REAL) Centre at the University of Cambridge have led a research programme as part of the Mastercard Foundation’s Leaders in Teaching initiative. This research revealed important insights about secondary teaching and learning in Rwanda.

Laterite and the REAL Centre at the University of Cambridge were learning partners for the Mastercard Foundation’s Leaders in Teaching, an initiative to improve teaching and learning quality in Rwandan secondary education with a focus on STEM.

Laterite conducted a total of 10 Focus Group Discussions with seven to nine participants, each lasting approximately one hour. The focus groups were conducted in Boricha (Sidama), Dodota and Adama Zurya (Oromia) woredas with all-male, all-female and mixed gender groups.

Laterite has recently encountered this challenge during our work on the impact evaluation of the Spark Microgrants‘ Advancing Citizen Engagement project in Rwanda. For this assignment, we were given a list of 164 villages earmarked to participate a …

At Laterite, we’ve been using geospatial data to support our work in development research. Geospatial data uses remote sensing data collected by sensors, satellites, phones and drones.

Laterite recently had the opportunity to work on several implementation research projects in education. A recent example is our collaboration with Brink on uBoraBora – a fund set up to continuously improve foundational literacy and numeracy in Sub-Saharan Africa.

Laterite is a firm with experience in public health research and evaluations. We have local expertise in East and West Africa.