About the partners

The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is an American private foundation founded in 2000, with an aim to fight poverty, disease, and inequity around the world. One of the foundation’s largest initiatives is the Agricultural Development initiative, which aims to reduce hunger and poverty for millions of farming households in Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia. Over the last 20+ years, the initiative has invested billions of dollars in 3 strategic areas namely research and development, agricultural policies, and input and market systems.

The Busara Center for Behavioral Economics is a non-profit organisation, whose mission is to utilise behavioral science to design solutions aimed at alleviating poverty and improving lives in the Global South. Since 2015, the organisation has run 500+ projects with 250+ partners and grown its behavioral science lab to one of the largest in the world with a panel of 133,000+ participants across India, Ethiopia, Kenya, Nigeria, and Uganda.

60 Decibels is a tech-powered impact measurement company founded in 2019. The firm utilises a Lean Data approach and speaks directly to customers, employees, or beneficiaries, usually via phone surveys, and returns high-quality data to clients in weeks. Over the last 5 years, the firm has delivered 2,000+ projects across 54 countries, effectively gathering insights from more than 270,000 unique human voices.