Laterite - data collection and development research in Africa
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 …
About - Laterite
Laterite is a firm specialized in data collection and research for social impact. We have offices in East and West Africa.
How to reduce participant attrition in a longitudinal study - Laterite
Laterite collected data on maternal and newborn health in Kenya. We share strategies to reduce participant attrition in longitudinal studies.
A gridding technique for geospatial matching in Ethiopia - Laterite
Using a gridding technique on geospatial data, Laterite is leading an impact evaluation on a gender and agriculture project in Ethiopia.
Implementation Research in Education - Laterite
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.
Matching treatment and control groups with geospatial data
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 …
Closing the STEM learning gap in Rwandan education - Laterite
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.
Using the Teach classroom observations tool in Rwanda - Laterite
Leaders in Teaching supports teachers throughout their careers and prepares them to deliver high-quality education through a variety of interventions. The initiative focuses on STEM subjects in secondary education in Rwanda. The REAL Centre and Laterite are learning partners for the Leaders in Teaching initiative.
Improving teaching quality in Rwanda during COVID-19 - Laterite
Laterite and the REAL Centre hosted a learning webinar with all Leaders in Teaching implementing partners to discuss the emerging implications of COVID-19 in July 2020. Over 50 attendees from across Rwanda discussed how they are adapting to the new context, the challenges they face, and the opportunity for Leaders in Teaching to play an even ...
Where we work - Laterite
Laterite is an African data collection and research firm with offices in Rwanda, Ethiopia, Kenya, Sierra Leone, Uganda, Tanzania and the Netherlands.