Reports and other documents

How governments can better fund children's nutrition
The first of its kind, this manual covers the content of a new course in public finance management focusing exclusively on nutrition and targeted at nutrition stakeholders and decision makers in Asia. UNICEF East Asia and Pacific and South Asia Regional Offices collaborated with Oxford Policy Management (OPM) and Genesis Analytics to develop a new training manual on Public Finance Management for Children-Nutrition (PF4C-N), with a focus on South Asia and East Asia and the Pacific. The manual aims to support governments to realise children’s rights through the best possible use of public budgets.

Programmatic assessment of a low-fee independent school
Genesis in Society, the firm's corporate social investment arm, engaged Molo Mhlaba to conduct a programmatic assessment of the school, update the school’s theory of change and establish an impact framework to help Molo Mhlaba build an investment case for the school’s future donors. More on the project: Assisting a low-fee independent school to articulate its impact

Use of cross-border digital payments in COMESA region
The Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA) Business Council (CBC) is working to develop and deploy an integrated, low-cost, interoperable and fraud-resistant digital payments platform. This report captures the findings of a market research conducted within the COMESA region to assess the key challenges faced by MSMEs to develop an understanding of their training needs for accelerating the use of digital payments for cross-border transactions.

Cost–benefit analysis of early childhood devlopment in Burundi
The Investment Case for Early Childhood Development (ECD) in Burundi is a cost-benefit analysis of scaling up different packages of multi-sectoral interventions aimed at children under the age of eight. The analysis was conducted for UNICEF across a long-term time horizon (up to 2050) and saw us extracting non-monetary and monetary benefits associated with incrementally scaling up coverage of these interventions from a baseline rate.
Genesis study on ECD in Burundi selected for top UNICEF award in 2022.

Linking informal savings to formal financial services: A Learning Brief
This learning brief draws on the work of the Savings at the Frontier programme and summarises the lessons learnt from providing funding, technical assistance and market coordination to financial service providers to develop and scale value propositions that offer a “triple-win” business case to FSPs, informal savings mechanisms and their users.

We recruit globally for young talent passionate about unlocking value
We recruit globally for young talent that is passionate about unlocking value on the continent. Successful candidates are placed into a niche practice area that best suits their skill set, interests and personal capability. We recruit newly or recently qualified graduates from African and international universities to join as analysts.

Our Sustainable Health Systems (SHS) Service Line
Genesis’ SHS service line contributes to improving the performance of health systems and the delivery of high-quality services in Africa with a focus on sustainability. We operate within the context of the six building blocks of sustainable health systems: service delivery, health workforce, health financing, information systems, medical products and technologies, and leadership and governance.