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Centre of Digital Excellence

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    Cure for congestion in Eswatini’s bid for digital health

    Genesis partnered with the World Bank to develop a policy note for Eswatini’s Ministry of Health (MoH) that provides a roadmap for harnessing the power of digital health innovations (DHIs) to achieve universal health coverage by 2030.

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    Breaking silos in digital development

    Digital technologies have the potential to improve lives in low and middle-income countries by broadening access to information, goods, and services. However, many digital solutions - particularly in the world of agriculture, resilience, nutrition and water, security, sanitation and hygiene (WSSH) - are designed, developed and deployed in silos.

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    How outsourcing can open global doors for Africa’s young jobseekers

    The Mastercard Foundation partnered with Genesis Analytics to clearly define and quantify the opportunity that the demographic youth transition means millions of young people in Africa.

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    Broadband Fund to bridge SA’s digital divide

    Genesis Analytics partnered with Harambee Youth Employment Accelerator, the Department of Communications and Digital Technologies, and Broadband Infraco to design and pilot a Broadband Fund.

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    Amazon’s 18-year impact in SA assessed for first time

    Genesis Analytics was commissioned to provide a detailed mapping of Amazon’s impact in South Africa from 2004 to 2021, assessing how Amazon has contributed to South Africa’s economic growth and service delivery,

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    Political economy of technology governance in Ghana

    Genesis’ Centre of Digital Excellence was commissioned by the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) to conduct an analysis of Ghana political economy as part of a broad political analysis of emerging and critical technologies across African and South Asian emerging markets.

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    Plan for 500,000 new jobs in SA global business sector

    Genesis was contracted by the South African Department of Trade, Industry and Competition (dtic) to develop the country’s global business services (GBS) masterplan to would create 500,000 jobs by 2030.

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    Reimagining higher education in South Africa

    Genesis convened the Reimagining Higher Education initiative with the Motsepe Foundation and BSG to identify concrete EdTech solutions to overcome critical constraints in South Africa’s higher education.

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    Developing online tool to track national masterplans in SA

    Genesis Analytics was commissioned to develop a dashboard to track the implementation of sector masterplans that the South African government is implementing. 

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    Seeking new financial products to target gig workers

    Genesis was commissioned to conduct a market sizing of the gig economy in Pakistan, Egypt and Saudi Arabia to review the challenges faced by gig workers in these three markets and to propose recommendations on financial products to target this segment.

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    Developing a fundraising strategy for a coding-for-kids start-up

    Genesis Analytics’ Centre of Digital Excellence (C0DE) and Financial Services Strategy (FSS) teams partnered with CodeNgwana, an NGO initiative that provides foundational coding lessons to African children, to support its growth objectives over the next three years.

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    Realising Tanzania's growth through digital economy

    Genesis Analytics partnered with the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) to provide clear recommendations on the development of Tanzania’s digital and blue economies.

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    Strategy to support Indonesia's digital skills development

    Genesis Analytics’ Centre of Digital Excellence (C0DE) team partnered with Digital Pathways at Oxford University and the SMERU Research Institute to develop a strategy focusing on accelerating digital skills development in Indonesia.

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    Evaluating the impact of a central bank digital currency

    Central banks across the world are rethinking approaches to financial and payments system infrastructure. New technologies such as distributed ledgers are revolutionising the way customers, businesses and financial intermediaries interact.

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    Formulating Lesotho’s National Digital Transformation Strategy

    Genesis partnered with Digital Pathways at Oxford University to support the Government of Lesotho to develop a national digital transformation strategy for the country.

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    Dashboard supports Covid vaccine roll-out in South Africa

    Despite progress in rolling out the Covid-19 vaccination programme in South Africa, there are still millions of vulnerable individuals who have not yet been vaccinated. There is a need to implement targeted interventions, per population group and geography, to increase national vaccination coverage.

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    How does Airbnb support inclusive growth of tourism in South Africa

    Airbnb commissioned Genesis Analytics measure the digital platform's impact on inclusive growth in South Africa.

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    Opportunity to transform public healthcare service delivery in Ghana

    Genesis Analytics partnered with a private foundation, and key stakeholders in the public, private and NGO sectors in Ghana to develop a transformational vision for the use of digital technologies, especially in the north of the country, which suffers serious backlogs in terms of healthcare services and health indicators.

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    Assessing tech-enabled solutions to global youth unemployment

    Genesis was commissioned by Mercy Corps to conduct a rapid impact assessment of its Youth Impact Labs (YIL) programme.

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    Evaluating the development of Tanzanian innovation ecosystem

    Genesis conducted the mid-term strategic evaluation of the Developing Innovation and Entrepreneurship Ecosystems in Tanzania programme, jointly funded by Fondation Botnar and the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC).

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    Facilitating continuous learning for AI health research collaborative

    Genesis Analytics has been contracted to support the International Digital Health & AI Research Collaborative (I-DAIR) through a developmental evaluation (DE). Unlike the traditional formative or summative evaluations, DEs facilitate real-time or close-time feedback loops, facilitating a continuous learning cycle.

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    Addressing food security in a global pandemic

    Genesis Analytics, through the support of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF), advised the Solidarity Fund on if, and how, it could support a sustainable food production intervention that addressed the persistent experience of hunger by the most vulnerable households in South Africa (which has been aggravated by Covid-19).

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    A mobile solution to supporting HIV treatment adherence

    MenConnect is an innovative approach to supporting HIV treatment initiation and adherence among men living with HIV in South Africa. Genesis was responsible for crafting behaviourally informed messages that are timed to the treatment journey milestones and tailored per psychographic segment.

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    Design thinking for innovative bank products in Tanzania

    Genesis was contracted to support FinSights Lab, an innovation initiative enabling solutions for financial services institutions to enhance financial inclusion, in supporting a large Tanzanian bank to develop new products and services for the mass market.

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    Data tool tracks risk of Covid overwhelming healthcare systems

    At the start of the Covid-19 epidemic in South Africa, Genesis Analytics developed a useful tool for looking at and understanding the impact of the epidemic on the healthcare system.

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    Genesis supports Uganda with strategy to capitalise on 4IR to drive growth

    Genesis is providing technical support to Uganda's Presidential Taskforce on the fourth industrial revolution (4IR) to formulate a national 4IR strategy to guide the country on areas where 4IR technology can be domesticated to achieve development objectives.

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    Genesis looks for drivers of innovation ecosystem in SADC region

    Genesis was contracted by FinMark Trust and the Insights 2 Impact (i2i) Facility to conduct an innovation scoping study for the Southern African Development Community (SADC) region to identify the drivers of innovation ecosystem development and opportunities to enhance the innovation ecosystem in the SADC.

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    Evaluating project for affordable, inclusive financial products

    Genesis was appointed by AccessHolding to conduct a mid-term evaluation of the Access2Acces programme to understand its performance and outcomes till the mid-point of the programme, in order to document key learnings arising from implementation, and to identify areas for improvement.

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    Strategy for mobile-wallet partnership opportunities in Africa

    Genesis Analytics was commissioned by a global card association to conduct a mobile-wallet partnership opportunity assessment across five countries, Ghana, Senegal, Madagascar, Cote d’Ivoire and Mauritius. This entailed assessing and mapping the payment landscape in each country and identifying key payment opportunities in the mobile money, card and digital payments space.

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    Insights into changing nature of work for young Africans

    Genesis was contracted by the Mastercard Foundation to perform audience-needs research for a new initiative to improve the availability of insights relating to the changing nature of work for young Africans in the coming 10-15 years.

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    Unpacking gig opportunities for unemployed Kenyan youth

    Genesis partnered with Mercy Corps Youth Impact Labs (YIL) Kenya to undertake a study that unpacks the potential that the gig economy has in solving Kenya’s unemployment challenge.

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    First comprehensive mapping of South African fintechs for national treasury

    To enable the growth of the fintech sector while minimising risk and protecting consumers, the National Treasury, in partnership with The World Bank Group, commissioned Genesis to conduct the first full market diagnostic and sizing of the local fintech sector.

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    Genesis drafts report for government fintech working group

    Genesis drafted the post-workshop report of the second workshop of the IFWG (Intergovernmental Fintech Working Group), which is made up of the representatives from the South African Reserve Bank, Financial Sector Conduct Authority, National Treasury, Financial Intelligence Centre and the South African Revenue Service.

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    Setting the baseline study for global digital development

    Description Digital Impact Alliance (DIAL), an independent organisation established to engage and resolve barriers associated with integrating digital development and data in developing and emerging nations, engaged Genesis to undertake a global baseline study.

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    Mid-term review of largest UN project in digital finance

    Genesis was contracted to conduct a mid-term evaluation of Mobile Money for the Poor (MM4P), the largest of the UNCDF’s programmes in digital finance. The evaluation was based on a theory-based approach and used the OECD DAC criteria as its guiding framework.

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    Online portal to size and engage with fintech entrepreneurs in SA

    The National Treasury, in partnership with the World Bank, commissioned Genesis to conduct the first full market diagnostic and sizing of the local fintech sector in South Africa.

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    Digital-credit scoring tool to expand credit to MSMEs

    Genesis has proposed the development of a digital-credit scoring tool for micro, small and medium enterprise lending in Zimbabwe. The tool will be developed to enable financial service providers to lend to previously excluded entrepreneurs and MSMEs across a number of economic sectors using alternative data and non-traditional sources of data.

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    Balancing innovation with regulation to grow SA financial services

    Genesis partnered with the Centre of Excellence in Financial Services to understand which policy and regulatory approaches best suit the South African financial sector in managing the balancing act of preserving the country's sound financial system, while enabling fintech innovation that promotes improved access to finance and growth in the sector.

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    Fintech solutions for women and their impact

    Genesis conducted research and prepared a paper that synthesised which financial technology solutions existed for women and their impact on women’s economic empowerment.

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    Scoping plan to strengthen financial integration in SADC

    Genesis was commissioned by an international aid agency to define the scope for the design of a new Regional Financial Integration (RFI) programme aimed at improving financial integration within SADC.

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    Rockefeller looks to new digital skills for Africa's youth

    Genesis was awarded a two-year grant by The Rockefeller Foundation to serve as monitoring and evaluation (M&E) partner to their Digital Jobs Africa (DJA) initiative, which was set up in response to the challenge of widespread youth unemployment in Africa.

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    Unlocking competition in digital finance in Africa & Asia

    Genesis was commissioned to study impediments to more effective competition in mobile money markets in four markets – India, Bangladesh, Kenya and Nigeria.

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    Financial model sets new mobile termination rates

    ‘Termination rates’ are the prices telecommunications operators pay each other to terminate calls originating on each other’s networks (for example, when an MTN customer calls a Vodacom customer, MTN pays a termination fee to Vodacom). For a variety of pro-competitive reasons, regulators around the world set these rates equal to the costs operators incur to provide termination services to each other.

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