Introduction Climate change is severely impacting rural agricultural communities, particularly in developing countries, by disrupting farming practices, reducing crop yields, and threatening livelihoods. Rising temperatures, erratic rainfall, and extreme weather...
We're excited to launch our self-paced online course on Data-Powered Positive Deviance (DPPD). Take the course and learn how to leverage digital data to identify and learn from successful practices to tackle complex challenges.Why are we offering this course? In...
Climate change poses significant challenges for rural communities in the North of Ghana. Due to their dependence on climate-sensitive sectors like agriculture, forestry, and natural resource management, they are highly vulnerable to its effects. Implementing...
Deforestation is an alarming problem for the Amazon region. In Ecuador alone, the rainforest recedes by hundreds of hectares every year. This is almost exclusively due to agricultural activities — 99% overall, and 64% due specifically to pastureland...
Together with the GIZ Sector Network Rural Development Asia and the Pacific and the Sector Network Rural Development Africa, we are running a Masterclass on the Data Powered Positive Deviance (DPPD) method. We are working with 14 GIZ teams from eight...
tl;dr: we were able to demonstrate the viability of the method and will continue to work on the widespread adoption of DPPD. If you want you to get involved, reach out at mail[at]datapoweredpd.orgWhere we started Work in the data for development space tends to focus...
In every community, there are individuals or groups with uncommon behaviors who, while having access to similar resources, find better solutions to challenges than their peers. Finding these so-called positive deviants and promoting their solutions is referred to as...
This blog post was written by our partners from the Centre for Digital Development at the University of Manchester and was first published on the initiative's Medium Blog. Positive Deviance and Covid-19 Nations around the world are struggling with their response...