Afrigender Analytics Limited/Lamu County, Kenya
An average tells you what happened. Disaggregation tells you who it happened to.
An independent economic research and data consultancy, registered in Kenya and headquartered in Lamu County — producing evidence from inside the communities it studies.
Applied economic research
Data analysis & evaluation
Capacity building
01/Who we are
An independent research firm built on public data.
Most of the information needed to hold public spending to account in Kenya is already published — in budget implementation reports, audit reports, census volumes and county plans. Almost none of it is read, analysed or translated for the communities it describes.
We do that translation. We take public data, apply proper economic method to it, and publish findings that a ward administrator, a county assembly committee and a peer-reviewed journal can each use. Where the data does not yet exist, we design the study and collect it.
02/Key services
Six service lines.
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01
Applied economic research & policy analysis
Original research on development economics, labour markets, public finance and social policy. Written to publication standard, delivered in formats decision-makers can act on.
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Monitoring, evaluation & impact assessment
Theory of change, indicator frameworks, baselines and endlines, and rigorous impact evaluation including experimental and quasi-experimental designs.
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Survey design & field data collection
Instrument design, sampling, enumerator training and supervised mobile data collection, with trained field teams resident in the counties where we work.
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Public finance & budget analysis
Budget execution and absorption analysis, expenditure tracking, audit review and gender-responsive budgeting support for county and national institutions.
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Data products & visualisation
Dashboards, indicator trackers, cleaned open datasets and analytical briefs that turn technical records into information non-specialists can use.
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Training & capacity building
Practical data and analysis training for county staff, civil society organisations, research teams and young people — taught on real local data, not worked examples.
03/Geographic focus
Based on the coast, not in the capital.
Research about counties is usually commissioned in Nairobi and flown in for a week. We think evidence produced by people who live with the findings is better evidence — and we build the local analytical capacity to keep producing it.
Our primary operating base is the Kenyan coast — Lamu, Tana River and the wider LAPSSET corridor — with active research interest in the arid and semi-arid counties of northern Kenya. We take regional and continental assignments, and maintain research links with institutions in China through our founder’s academic network.
- Registered office — Mokowe, Lamu County
- LAPSSET corridor, indicative alignment
04/Standards of practice
Commitments we will not trade away.
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Traceability
Every figure has a source and a page number.
We publish the source table alongside the finding. If a number cannot be traced to a named, verifiable document, it does not appear in our work.
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Independence
No client controls the conclusion.
Clients commission the question, the method and the scope. They do not commission the answer. We decline work conditioned on a predetermined finding.
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Open by default
Public data analysis is published free.
Work built on public records is released openly with a permanent DOI, unless a client contract requires otherwise. Public information should return to the public.
05/Work with us
Bring the question. We will tell you honestly whether the data can answer it.
Scoping costs nothing. Describe the problem — a dataset nobody has opened, a report due to a funder, a county decision with no evidence behind it — and you will get a straight answer on whether it is worth doing, what it would take, and whether this firm is the right one for it.