Data Powered Positive Deviance, Under the Hood #2: Deforestation, Cows, and Data

Wednesday, April 14, 2021, 10:00 am EST

In the spirit of working out loud, the Data Powered Positive Deviance Initiative invites you to a mini-series of four ‘under the hood’ sessions with its different pilot teams in Somalia, Ecuador, Mexico, and Niger. The second session will focus on experimenting with non-traditional data sources to identify positively deviant cattle farmers in Ecuador who operate in zones of expansion of the agricultural frontier without further contributing to deforestation.

Link to the "under the hood" session here.

The Data Powered Positive Deviance Initiative

The Data Powered Positive Deviance Initiative was launched on the belief that lessons on how to tackle complex sustainable development challenges are best learned from the people who face those challenges every day. The Initiative brings together the GIZ Data Lab, the University of Manchester Centre for Digital development, and the UNDP Accelerator Labs through a series of pilots in different countries and domains to uncover effective, locally developed practices and innovations.

Find out more about this initiative here.

Watch this space for updates or get in touch with us by email:

UNDP Ecuador Accelerator Lab: Ana Grijalva: ana.grijalva@undp.org

GIZ Data Lab: Andreas Gluecker / Catherine Vogel: datalab@giz.de

University of Manchester: Basma Albanna: basma.albanna@manchester.ac.uk

UNDP Accelerator Labs: Jeremy Boy: jeremy.boy@undp.org