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Issue 1 What we’ve done →
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Issue 2 What we’ve done →
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Issue 3 What we’ve done →
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Issue 4
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Insights from Nigeria →



About
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July What we've done
The Hypotheses


Following the January kickoff with the GE team and the subsequent survey, we identified 4 initial hypotheses.



For this initial investment, we will be focusing on : 

Learning Agenda
We’ve further detailed these hypotheses through a Learning Agenda, which includes high-level indicative questions that we’re using to develop a more detailed Research Guide.


Research  guide
We’re partnering with DODO Design, our local design partner in Nigeria, to assemble the panels of women and to develop the Research Guide to test the Learning Agenda, and to synthesize what we’re hearing from the panels of women into data, findings, and insights. 

July Where we are Where we are

We’ve begun research in Southern and Northern Nigeria by selecting ~30 women across 5 Pathways vulnerabilities segments of women. We’ll engage with these women over the entire investment period (running through mid-2025), enabling us to develop relationships with them that we hope will lead to deeper engagement and richer information sharing.


In parallel, we’ve designed and developed a two-part data and insight Platform for the Gates D&I team:




Data Capture & Management
The Platform will capture and record all the data we collect throughout the project. This ensures we have a central repository for all information.





Engaging with Data, Findings, and Insights
The Platform will also enable the Gates D&I team to directly interact with the data. This includes qualitative findings and insights from workshops conducted with women's panels. The goal is to create a clear path for the team to connect research hypotheses to real-world stories, quotes, and insights gathered from the women themselves.





We’ve designed and tested wireframes for the above use cases, and developed this into a Platform that will trace hypotheses to findings and insights, supported by data, annotations, quotes, photos, audio snapshots, and visualizations, and queryable by you.

Where we’re headed

Next month’s newsletter will provide an overview of the pilot immersion in Northern and Southern Nigeria, and detail what to expect when version 1 of the Platform rolls out in January, 2025.

Partner spotlight

We’re partnering with Open Knowledge Framework (OKF) to develop the Gender Equality Design Labs Platform. The GE D&I and Catapult teams are also currently partnering with OKF on the Making it Real project. We hope to build upon this experience to develop a Platform containing rich qualitative insight that enables mixed-methods, secondary analysis, and provides you a resource to better understand women’s experiences in context.


While version 1 of the Platform won’t be accessible until January 2025, here’s a sneak peak of the wireframes to provide you an idea of what to expect on this Platform:


Landing page

The 4 hypotheses with the audio essays for all per country.

Hypothesis page
Reframed Hypothesis with sub-sections for insights, snapshots and opportunity areas.


Insights page

Description of the Insight and list of findings that led to this insight, with some annotations and quotes from focus groups highlighted for each.


Findings page

Description of the Finding with list of all the annotations and quotes from focus groups that support this finding.