Francis Rathinam

Francis Rathinam
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Associate Director and Practice Lead, MLE, Athena Infonomics
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Francis has 13 years of experience working with global multilateral and bilateral institutions, developing country governments and think tanks on various aspects of monitoring and evaluation on issues related to governance, livelihoods and data for evaluation.
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Big Data in the time of a pandemic
07 January 2021
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Zeba Siddiqui
Francis Rathinam
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Big Data in the time of a pandemic

With a significant number of active cases globally, the novel coronavirus represents an extreme public health challenge. The outbreak of the pandemic has led to stringent travel restrictions, making…
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Can transparency and accountability initiatives improve natural resource governance?
18 May 2020
Francis Rathinam
Francis Rathinam
Zeba
Zeba Siddiqui +
 

Can transparency and accountability initiatives improve natural resource governance?

Resource-dependent countries often fail to benefit from their natural resource wealth. Countries like the Democratic Republic of Congo and Nigeria have vast quantities of natural resources, yet their…
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Building evidence culture within government: the Ugandan case
23 January 2020
Radhhika
Radhika Menon
Francis Rathinam
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Building evidence culture within government: the Ugandan case

When we work with our government partners to encourage evidence generation and use, we draw on our experiences from success cases we know well. Uganda is a particularly important case, where 3ie…
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19 March 2015
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Jyotsna Puri
Francis Rathinam
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Reversing the resource curse through impact evaluations

Countries such as Sudan, Democratic Republic of Congo and Nigeria have large reserves of natural resources. They are also countries that have suffered extended periods of political violence,…
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