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Optimizing Resource Utilization and Ensuring Timely Results in CBA: Some Insights.
Cost-Benefit Analysis only drives impact when it delivers the right insights at the right time. This piece explores how to strategically prioritize what really matters, Read More »
Seeing the Whole Picture: Bringing Social and Environmental Impacts into Cost–Benefit Analysis
Traditional Cost-Benefit Analysis can miss the real story when it ignores pollution, resource depletion, inequality, and job creation—especially in regions like Sub-Saharan Africa. This piece Read More »
Stop Chasing Sunk Costs: Keeping Cost–Benefit Analysis Focused on the Future
Sunk costs can quietly sabotage even the most rigorous Cost-Benefit Analysis by pressuring us to “defend” past investments instead of choosing the best path forward. Read More »
Who Really Benefits? Bringing Women and Youth into Cost–Benefit Analysis
Cost-Benefit Analysis (CBA) is a powerful tool for shaping economic policy—but too often it treats society as if everyone benefits in the same way. This Read More »
Before You Roll Out That Big Intervention—Have You Done This One Crucial Analysis?
Before any big district or national rollout, one question matters most: will the benefits truly outweigh the costs over time? This post walks through a Read More »
How many Key Informant Interviews (KIIs) are enough when conducting a Cost Benefit (CBA)?
How many key informant interviews are “enough” in a Cost-Benefit Analysis? Drawing on CBA work across Africa, Latin America, and Asia, I argue that quality Read More »
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Mogaka, B, O., Kiplangat, H, B., Ng’ang’a S.K. 2022
Climate-Smart Soil (CSS) practices adoption as a way of restoring degraded lands, improving food security, and mitigating the effects of climate change in Western Kenya. Scientists investigate socioeconomic factors influencing farmers’ CSS practices preference.
Akinyi, D.P., Ng’ang’a, S.K. 2022
The Climate Smart Agriculture-Prioritization framework (CSA-PF) is an elaborate step-by-step process that helps stakeholders narrow down a long list of Climate-Smart Agriculture (CSA) practices to a short portfolio of viable options.
Akinyi, D.P., Ng’ang’a, S. K., 2021
Alliance researchers summarize a recent analysis of various climate adaptation practices and recommend further actions to support smallholder farmers.
Ng’ang’a, S. K., Gordon, S., Akinyi, D. 2021
Researchers discuss possibilities and constraints for three forms of sustainable livestock management in East Africa.
Ng’ang’a, S. K., Gordon, S., Akinyi, D. 2021
A new study on socioeconomic factors that constrain or facilitate the adoption of soil carbon enhancing practices in Western Kenya by CIAT examines the role of soil carbon on household food security and income using a cross-section data derived from 340 households. Preliminary findings suggest that increasing soil carbon improves food security and income among households.
Ng’ang’a, S. K., Gordon, S., Akinyi, D. 2021
A new cost-benefit analysis by CIAT examines three practices for improved livestock management in Ethiopia: improved rangeland, restoration of degraded land, and fodder cropping. Preliminary findings suggest all three practices are better than business as usual and can be scaled up.





