@poverty_action
Innovations for Poverty Action
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🚨🚨🚨3 rare positions open for coding whizzes- links here but we're going to tell you what's unique about them below in a quick 🧡 & please share! Data Manager: Data Specialist: Data Associate:
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@poverty_action
Innovations for Poverty Action
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IPA can have hundreds of studies in progress at any given time, and this team does amazing inventive work across many. Some examples: @mehrabbabu put together this amazing dashboard to monitor mask usage data in India and Bangladesh (for more on that see )
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Mushfiq Mobarak, @mushfiq-econ.bsky.social
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Shipping containers with the 110 million masks that the @MaskNorm team arranged arrived in Chittagong and Karachi ports, "just in time" before the omicron wave, as @asifsaleh says. Deep gratitude to both @BRACworld & @commissionerlhr for distributing millions of masks in πŸ‡§πŸ‡© andπŸ‡΅πŸ‡°
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@poverty_action
Innovations for Poverty Action
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There was a huge influx of Venezuelan migrants into Colombia before COVID, some of whom received gov assistance & regularization status, but many returned to Venezuela when opportunities dried up. This population is highly mobile and change their phone numbers quite often-
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@poverty_action
Innovations for Poverty Action
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-BUT their WhatsApp numbers are more constant, so Carlos learned about WhatsApp Surveys using Twilio and programmed a cheaper way to stay in contact with them.
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@poverty_action
Innovations for Poverty Action
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Ishmail in Ghana leads creation of open-source tools to manage research quality for staff & partners! They use statistical methods & machine learning to analyze incoming survey data and rich meta-data including audio recordings, phone sensor data & more.
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@poverty_action
Innovations for Poverty Action
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Members of this team are able to work with interesting projects and rich datasets to generate new insights and improve research process for our entire field, from Bangladesh to Ghana to Colombia, and from public health to agriculture to education.
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@poverty_action
Innovations for Poverty Action
2 years
But beyond amazing projects and figuring out thorny questions that make a difference, one of the best parts is being able to live in any of *22 countries* where we work, working w/the brightest colleagues out there. And occasionally watching the sunset over a volcano together.
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