Publications
Publications overview
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Financial Inclusion for Strengthening Climate Resilience
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Review
In collaboration with FAIR Center at EGADE Business School of Tecnológico de Monterrey, KIT Institute is implementing a project funded by the Mastercard Impact Fund, with support from the Mastercard Center for Inclusive Growth, entitled “Financial Inclusion for Strengthening Climate Resilience: Exploring Adaptation Strategies and Supply Chain Impacts on Latin American Coffee Farmers.” As part of this project, KIT Institute […]
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- February 2025
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From Projects to Businesses: Why Entrepreneurial Leadership Matters
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Learning Brief
This learning brief explores how farmer organizations introduce the service innovations supported by the BFC program: It identifies necessary conditions for these service innovations to become commercially viable while achieving impact at scale and reaching large numbers of farmers. The analysis of a series of BFC investment cases provides the following key insights: In addition […]
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- July 2026
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Sustained impact and the road ahead
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Report
This report evaluates the impact of the Accelerator after 3.5 years of implementation among test-at-scale households in Côte d’Ivoire. To robustly estimate the Accelerator’s progress from 2022 to 2025, four waves of survey data from 1,970 households across 28 cooperatives (all Nestlé Cocoa Plan (NCP) and Rainforest Alliance (RA) certified) were used. To estimate the […]
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- June 2026
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Lessons and Best practices from the Young Women for Awareness, Agency, Advocacy and Accountability (YW4A) initiative
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Briefing paper
This brief presents key lessons learned and best practices from the Young Women for Awareness, Agency, Advocacy, and Accountability (YW4A) programme across Egypt, Kenya, Palestine, and South Sudan. Drawing on experiences from women’s rights organisations, faith-based organisations, and young women leaders, it highlights practical and evidence-informed approaches that contributed to strengthening advocacy, leadership, gender equality, […]
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- February 2026
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Entrepreneurial Leadership: A Key Factor in the Economic Viability of Farmer Organisations (Fr/En)
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Learning Brief
Farmer organisations (FOs) in Africa play a dual role: as platforms for collective action and advocacy, and as commercial actors generating revenues through input supply, storage, and marketing. Yet many struggle to achieve economic viability, hampered by governance weaknesses, volatile markets, and dependence on donor support. This learning brief, written by Jaap Voeten, Fresnelle Houéfa […]
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- April 2026
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Strengthening Skills, Leadership, and Inclusion
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Learning Brief
Between 2021 and 2025, KIT and IFDC collaborated on two initiatives: the HortiNigeria programme in Nigeria and the A3SEED programme in South Sudan, supporting and strengthening the horticultural and seed sector in these respective countries. Although the programmes operated in different sectors and settings, both prioritised gender and youth inclusion as part of their strategies. […]
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- January 2026
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YW4A Transformation Journeys
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Learning Brief
YW4A Transformation Journeys captures the stories of change from 23 partner organisations engaged in the Young Women for Awareness, Agency, Advocacy, and Accountability (YW4A) programme across Egypt, Kenya, Palestine, and South Sudan. Developed as part of the programme’s endline reflection process and facilitated by KIT Royal Tropical Institute, the booklet builds on the Advocacy and […]
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- December 2025
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Young Women for Awareness, Agency, Advocacy and Accountability, Theory of Change mid-term Reflection brief (English, Arabic)
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Briefing paper
This mid-term reflection brief explores the Young Women for Awareness, Agency, Advocacy, and Accountability (YW4A) programme across Egypt, Kenya, Palestine, and South Sudan. It consolidates key insights from the internal Mid-Term Review and reflects on how the programme’s Theory of Change guides learning, collaboration, and action. The brief aims to inspire partners, women’s rights and […]
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- April 2024
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Learning Brief: Farmers’ Health as a Driver of Cocoa Supply Chain Resilience
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Learning Brief
The long-term sustainability of the cocoa sector is inextricably linked to the physical and mental well-being of the smallholder farmers who underpin the global supply chain. This brief brings together the existing evidence on the health issues cocoa farmers face, their links to productivity and well-being, and the steps the cocoa industry can take to […]
- Year of publication
- February 2026
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Learning Brief: Lessons from implementing the Cocoa Household Income Study (CHIS) for living income measurement
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Learning Brief
The Cocoa Household Income Study (CHIS) is a sector-wide initiative providing a harmonised methodology for monitoring and assessing living income in the cocoa sector. Published in 2024, the CHIS Methodology offers guidance for collecting representative and comparable household income data across all cocoa-producing households. Since its publication, the CHIS approach has been adopted across the […]
- Year of publication
- February 2026
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Endline Evaluation
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Evaluation
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Report
This endline evaluation assesses the two-year impact of the EnRoute programme, a partnership between ETG–Beyond Beans Foundation, Oxfam Novib, and KIT Institute. The programme set out to test practical, scalable approaches to closing the living income (LI) gap and reducing child labour (CL) among 599 farming households. The programme tested three intervention models among cocoa-farming […]
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- December 2025
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An implementation framework for introducing obstetric ultrasound in new contexts
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Article
Over the past decade the global uptake of ultrasound technology and innovations to bring ultrasound closer to the people have increased substantially, offering a significant potential to improve maternal and new born health. To leverage its full potential, safeguard quality and protect the reproductive rights of of women, it is imperative to critically examine and […]
- Year of publication
- January 2026
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