Insights & Reporting
Making Complex Evidence Clear
One reproducible pipeline from customs to farm-gate—so subsidy debates share the same numbers.
Overview
Subsidy debates were gridlocked by incompatible spreadsheets. We built a single source of truth with explicit lineage from customs declarations to farm-gate price monitors.
Policy coordination starts when every directorate can open the same dashboard and see the same lineage from customs to farm-gate.
Advanced Economic Research
IFDC / Government of Ghana (2024)
Challenge · Solution · Result
- Challenge: Fragmented administrative data made it difficult to align subsidy rules with soil health goals and fiscal ceilings.
- Solution: Harmonized customs, retail, and farm survey microdata into a reproducible pipeline with scenario tools for policy teams.
- Result: Visual reporting and decision tools that translate research on trade, gender, and information systems into usable insight for partners.
Fragmented Numbers, Frozen Debates
When spreadsheets cannot agree
Fragmented administrative data made it difficult to align subsidy rules with soil health goals and fiscal ceilings. Subsidy debates were gridlocked by incompatible spreadsheets.
The brief was clear: build a single source of truth with explicit lineage from customs declarations to farm-gate price monitors.
A Pipeline Ministries Can Trust
ETL, scenarios, and user testing
We harmonized customs, retail, and farm survey microdata into a reproducible pipeline with scenario tools for policy teams—entity resolution across dealer registries, documented ETL with signed-off business rules, and scenario sliders for subsidy rate and fiscal cap.
User testing cycles with directorate staff who refresh the dashboard each quarter kept the product usable under real operating conditions.
Briefings That Stick
Treasury, agronomy, and donors on one page
Quarterly briefings were adopted by ministry technical units, with transparent assumptions for donor coordination.
A production dashboard with role-based views for treasury vs agronomy units and a donor coordination memo referencing shared scenario assumptions closed the governance loop.
Partners
- IFDC FERARI
- Ministry of Food and Agriculture (Ghana)
