Evaluating AI for Social Impact
At the 2026 Africa Evidence Summit, The Agency Fund presented a four-level framework for evaluating AI for social impact: model, product, user, and impact.
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Study of Agro-Food Processing Industries in Ethiopia: Policy and Strategy Options for its Development (2015-2025)
As stipulated in the Second Growth and Transformation Plan (GTP II), Ethiopia is committed to tuning its growth direction from agriculture-led to industry-led economy. In this plan, the role of industries in general and the manufacturing sector in particular i...
Situational Analysis and Impact of Incentives on Ethiopian Manufacturing Sector
Ethiopia’s ambition to transition from an agrarian to an industrial economy is central to its economic transformation agenda. This vision is reflected in the country’s industrial development strategies, Growth and Transformation Plans (GTPs), and sector-specif...
Development of Ethiopian Steel Industries: Challenges, Prospects, and Policy Options (2015 –2025)
As stipulated in the Second Growth and Transformation Plan (GTP II), Ethiopia is committed to tuning its growth direction from agriculture-led to industry-led economy. In this plan, the role of industries in general and the manufacturing sector in particular i...
Conflicts of Interest Publication Disclosures (COIPonD) Dataset TEST
COIPonD captures author-reported disclosure information (including lack of disclosure) for over 38,000 PubMed-indexed articles published between 1949 and 2022. The collected articles are indexed by discussed drug products with a focus on the 319 most commonly...
Impact of Conflict on Child Education
Conflict has a devastating impact on children’s education in Ethiopia. It causes physical and psychological harm on children, displacements, damages to school infrastructure and materials, and household economic and livelihood loss. This study presents how eac...
The Role of Social Norms in Shaping Trust and Economic Behavior in the Ethiopian Financial Institutions
This research report examines how social norms influence trust and economic behavior within Ethiopian financial institutions, with a focus on how culturally embedded expectations, trust in financial institutions, and shared values shape financial decision-maki...
Situational Analysis of Large and Medium Scale Rain-fed Commercial Farms in Ethiopia: Case of DBE financed projects
Ethiopia is one of the fastest-growing economies in the world. The country has registered substantive economic and social progress over the last one and half decades. Per capita income has increased; poverty has fallen, and the groundwork has been laid for sus...