DEEP Challenge Fund: Ethiopia

DEEP Challenge Fund: Ethiopia is sponsored by Data & Evidence to End Extreme Poverty (DEEP). The Ethiopia Challenge Fund awards grants to local researchers focused on reducing poverty.

Home - Data & evidence to end extreme poverty Poverty changes over time. It affects people differently in different places. It links closely to unpredictable and often interconnected events – conflicts, migration, climate-related disasters.

It’s tied to deep-seated, ever-changing structural factors – discrimination, inequality, lack of infrastructure and public services. So to understand and tackle the root causes of poverty, we can’t stand still. DEEP is a global consortium that brings together leading national and international expertise.

We seek out new, more effective and more accessible ways to collect, analyse and use poverty data and evidence. Together, we work to move closer to a world free from extreme poverty. The DEEP Challenge Fund awards small and medium grants to local researchers working on national poverty reduction.

Beyond the grant: How Ethiopia is building research ecosystems for impact Building the ecosystem, not just the evidence What does local ownership actually look like in a research programme? Investing in children leads to social mobility in later life What are DEEP's research themes? Who lives in extreme poverty?

What drives extreme poverty? How can we end extreme poverty? By developing groundbreaking, accessible techniques for data collection and analysis, we support governments and policymakers to identify and reach the people most affected by poverty.

Our tools and evidence can help decision-makers identify new and persistent causes of poverty, from climate change to the impact of new technology. By measuring the impacts of interventions to reduce poverty, we can inspire new solutions globally and be part of a future where understanding of how to eradicate extreme poverty is clearer than it’s ever been. Our work focuses on eight countries across Africa, South and South-East Asia.

We are a consortium of the Universities of Cornell, Copenhagen, and Southampton led by Oxford Policy Management, in partnership with the World Bank’s Development Data Group and funded by the UK’s Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office through its Global Research and Technology Development portfolio. For more details including our team members, see Our people . Stay updated with the latest research, events,