A New Era of Data Availability in Clean Cooking? How technology is changing the way we think about monitoring, reporting, and verification. It’s long been an open secret that improved cookstoves projects claiming emissions reductions and selling carbon offsets are most likely overestimating their impact. All clean cooking projects include some element of impact […]
The 10 district pilot of Trek in Tanzania continues, 68 vaccine distribution trips were monitored between June and July in the districts of Geita and Mwanza. After conducting the first analysis to examine the trips utilizing Trek, we can glean some initial findings. While the data is preliminary, it does give us early insight and […]
We’re thrilled to celebrate a recent success with our long-time partner, the Kenyan Ministry of Health, in safely delivering Covid-19 vaccines. Since receiving a shipment of over 880,000 Moderna vaccines in August, the Ministry of Health has worked closely with our team to use Nexleaf sensors to monitor the vaccines as they travel from the […]
Nithya Ramanathan and Martin Lukac founded Nexleaf Analytics in 2009 because they understood that emerging technologies had the potential to revolutionize objective data-gathering throughout the world. With the right tools to operationalize real-time information, governments, researchers, multinationals, and philanthropists would be able to design more agile, responsive, and successful solutions to global problems. One of […]
Sistema.bio and Nexleaf Analytics came together to pilot an innovative range of technology and data solutions and offer insights that can help guide other clean cooking initiatives. Sistema.bio is a social enterprise that manufactures and distributes high-quality, affordable biodigesters that enable farmers to convert waste into energy and fertilizer. Nexleaf is a non-profit technology firm […]
One of the most prominent lessons we’ve learned from more than a decade of cookstove monitoring is that cooking is complex. The factors that go into the seemingly simple question of how a household will prepare a meal range from fuel price, forest conditions, fuel distribution infrastructure, income fluctuations, cooking habits, cultural norms, culinary requirements, […]
As we build, design, refine, and scale data-driven solutions to big problems in global health, opportunities to work closely with our country partners are critically important. Over the last four years, we’ve had the privilege to work alongside the Tanzania Ministry of Health and the President’s Office Regional Administration and Local Government (PO-RALG) as they […]
Over the last ten years, a recurring theme of our clean cooking work has been the need to define clean cookstove adoption based on measured stove usage rather than sales or ownership. There is far too much evidence of improved stoves falling into disuse for us to assume that distributing a clean stove will have […]
Nexleaf Analytics, the Center for Public Health and Development, and PagerDuty are partnering to bring better data on essential power for health clinics located in COVID-19 hotspots across Kenya. LOS ANGELES and NAIROBI, 9/30/2020 – Today, Nexleaf is launching a project in Nairobi, Kenya to monitor the power availability in health facilities within COVID hotspots. […]
When Subani Pradhan received a new stove February 2016, she looked at the stove with skepticism. She questioned whether she could cook her family recipes on this stove, and whether the foods would have the same rich, smoky flavors her husband liked so much. Her traditional stove, known as a mudstove, was the same type her mother used and the same type used throughout her community, and she wasn’t convinced this new one would satisfy her needs.