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How Zamfara overcame the odds to boost child immunisation

September 30, 2026

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Delivering vaccines in Nigeria’s Zamfara State means racing against both time and terrain. When seasonal rains turn dirt roads into rivers, or securit…

How Sokoto is transforming routine immunisation from the ground up

August 19, 2026

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Understanding why routine vaccination stalled in northern Nigeria requires a look at what happens on the back roads of Sokoto. Failure is rarely a cas…

Mitigating learning losses after Covid-19

June 8, 2021

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Even before the Covid-19 pandemic, nine out of ten children in Sub-Saharan Africa were unable to read and understand a simple text by the age of ten.…

Mapping and understanding the needs of populations in urban slums

May 12, 2021

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It can be challenging to provide consistent health services in urban slums, which often contain populations with some of the lowest levels of access t…

Making the Covid-19 vaccine rollout work

May 11, 2021

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The rollout of the Covid vaccine is unlike any other. For most public officials involved, it will be the most complex challenge they will ever face in…

How simple digital tools are improving immunisation in Mozambique

May 10, 2021

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To help reduce the rate of under-immunised children in Mozambique, the government launched new digital supervision tools to help manage service delive…

How satellite data is helping vaccinators reach missed communities in the DRC

April 6, 2021

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In 2017, surveys showed that only one in three children were fully immunised in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), while one in five did not…

Simplifying vaccine delivery in Chad

February 23, 2021

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One of the first steps in redesigning a vaccine distribution system is to understand the existing bottlenecks, flaws and inefficiencies that prevent i…

Strengthening school leadership to improve education in Peru

March 19, 2020

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Good school leadership can have a powerful effect on learning and achievement. Research conducted by Marzano, Waters and McNulty found that the e…

The science of detecting false data

November 19, 2019

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Leaders of health and education systems often rely on datasets that are inaccurate or incomplete. Advanced analytics can help understand and improve d…

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