Sustainable Economic Development
As a knowledge institute, KIT compiles, analyses and develops new knowledge on sustainable economic development. We conduct front-runner research on rising global issues such as food security, youth employment, value chain development in the agricultural sector, and financial inclusion.
This enables us to broker grounded and actionable knowledge as advice to public and private sector organisations. It also enables us to bring together different development actors to support collaboration, knowledge sharing and innovation. Together, this helps to improve the impact of a diversity of economic development activities.
We focus on the intersection of policy and practice in economic development
The combination of our team’s content expertise and process-related skills not only leads to better projects. It also builds competencies in project design, implementation and management.
Our support is tailor-made to the needs and context of our partners and clients. We build on their resources and knowledge, mission and values to ensure that our advice is aligned with existing initiatives, has policy relevance, and is adapted to the local context. Our approach is practical and based on action learning.
We operate at the intersection of theory and practice and between policy and implementation, translating good intentions into meaningful social and economic impact. Our professional staff combine expertise in specific content areas with the ability to offer a diverse suite of advisory services, including policy and programme design and implementation, evaluation and impact assessment, capacity building through coaching, and knowledge management.
This experience enables our advisors to navigate sustainable change processes and identify elements that can make a difference in development programme performance. We help governments, organisations and businesses to learn from their experiences, improve practice, and maximize the impact of their interventions.
Sustainable Economic Development Topics
Our Inclusive Food Systems Team
Our Impact Economics Team
Publications
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How gender norms impact women’s role in forest use and forest management—illustrations from Ethiopia’s Bale Ecoregion
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Working Paper
This paper unravels the gender relations in rural forest-dependent communities in Ethiopia by taking a closer look at the country’s Bale Ecoregion, located in the Oromia regional state. Drawing on primary quantitative and qualitative data, the paper explores women’s roles as users of forest resources and in forest resource management, before reflecting on the construction […]
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- 2024
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Nestlé Income Accelerator Program: Progress Report of the Test-at-Scale Phase
In 2022, Nestlé launched the Income Accelerator Program in Côte d’Ivoire as part of their ambition to help close the Living Income (LI) gap in their cocoa supply chain and combat the root causes of child labour risks. The current test-at-scale phase involves 10,000 farming households in Côte d’Ivoire, following a previous one-year piloting period among 1,000 farming households. These […]
- Year of publication
- 2024
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Cocoa household income study approach
A sector-wide approach to assessing the living income status of households in the cocoa sector The cocoa sector has been working to deliver living incomes for cocoa farming households since 2015, but learning at the sector level aimed at achieving living incomes has been hampered by challenges in data collection and sharing. To address these […]
- Year of publication
- 2024
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