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IDinsight is a non-profit global development consulting firm helping global development practitioners increase their impact using rigorous evidence.

Mission and history
IDinsight was founded in 2011 by Andrew Fraker, Neil Buddy Shah, Esther Wang and Paul Wang. IDinsight's mission is to help leaders in government, NGO s, foundations and social businesses generate and use rigorous evidence to improve their social impact. The firm works in Asia and Africa, across a wide range of sectors, including access to finance, agriculture, education, energy, gender, governance, livelihoods, health, water and sanitation. IDinsight has offices in India (Delhi and Vijayawada), Kenya (Nairobi), the United States (San Francisco) and Zambia (Lusaka), and client engagements in more than a dozen countries.

Activities
IDinsight initially sought to make rigorous impact evaluation methods – including, but not limited to, randomized controlled trials – more demand-driven, affordable, and fast, so that they could be used as practical decision-making tools by implementing NGOs, social businesses and governments.

IDinsight’s first engagement, with iDE in Cambodia, demonstrated this concept. IDinsight conducted a randomized trial to test the relative effectiveness of a marketing and information campaign vs. providing financing in increasing sales and usage of low-cost hygienic latrines in rural Cambodia. Subsequent early engagements, with governments in India and Zambia, utilized randomized trials to inform these governments’ decisions, on a range of policy issues including maternal mortality, insecticide treated antimalarial bednet distribution, early infant diagnosis of HIV, and reducing leakage in government programs. IDinsight has also helped governments design policy interventions using the principles of behavioral economics, as highlighted in the World Bank's 2015 World Development Report.

Learning Partnerships
Since its inception, IDinsight’s model has evolved from rapid, one-off impact evaluations focused on informing a single policy decision, to longer-term sustained “learning partnerships,” involving a broad suite of quantitative tools. Current learning partnerships include:
 * UNICEF
 * Government of Andhra Pradesh, India
 * Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation agriculture unit
 * Government of Bihar, India’s Department of Energy

Clients
IDinsight has worked 40+ clients, including the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, World Bank  , Kepler , and One Acre Fund. IDinsight has also worked with The International Initiative for Impact Evaluation (3ie), the Clinton Health Access Initiative, and other NGOs and non-profits in various capacity as partners.

Awards and recognition
IDinsight Founding Partners have been named as Forbes “Top 30 under 30” social entrepreneurs, Echoing Green fellows, PopTech Social Innovation fellow, and Rainer Arnhold fellow. IDinsight was named a “Best Idea of the Year” in Foreign Policy Magazine Top 100 Global Thinkers Issue.

Funding
IDinsight is a client-service organization and receives most funding from client engagements. IDinsight has received external funding from GiveWell, the Mulago Foundation, and other sources.