About GIDE
Transforming Development through Evidence of What Works
Honolulu sunset over the Pacific ocean: We need "Impact Evaluation" now before it is too costly, too late to transform lives world-wide!
About Us
Transforming development through evidence of what works.
Our story began in Nairobi, Kenya, as the African Biodiversity Institute — founded on a simple conviction: better evidence leads to better decisions for people and the planet. Over more than three decades, that idea grew into the Global Institute for Development Evidence (GIDE), an international Results-Based Management institute with a global office in Honolulu, Hawaii, and regional offices in Uganda and Zambia, serving partners across Africa, Asia, and the United States.
GIDE was founded by Alfred Latigo — a former UN Chief of Economic and Policy Analysis and Inclusive Growth, with more than four decades across FAO, the UN Economic Commission for Africa, the Harvard Institute for International Development, the World Bank, and the African Development Bank. The institute is guided by a multidisciplinary Board of Directors, Advisory Council, and network of consultants drawn from governments, international institutions, universities, the UN, and the World Bank.
What we do
We help governments, multilateral development banks, UN and bilateral agencies, and civil society turn evidence into impact. We strengthen country-led evaluation systems and build the capacity of policymakers, researchers, and civil society organizations to practise Results-Based Management — so success can be repeated, failure avoided, and scarce resources directed to what works. Our work spans performance and impact evaluation, systematic reviews, and environmental and social impact assessment, with deep focus on climate-resilient investment across agriculture, energy, water, industry, and transport, and on mainstreaming environment, climate change, social safeguards including gender, and regional integration. We also train the next generation — graduate students, and policymakers, practitioners, and consultants across Africa and Asia.
The next chapter: ScaleX Labs
The questions have never changed — what works, for whom, at what cost, and why. What has changed is our ability to answer them at speed and scale. ScaleX Labs, our Responsible AI technology and advisory affiliate, carries the institute's evidence tradition into a new era — an integrated AI platform that puts these capabilities directly into practitioners' hands, from AI-powered monitoring, evaluation, and learning to tools that strengthen gender transformative results, funding, and professional capability.
Together, GIDE and ScaleX Labs share one conviction — AI must strengthen the development professionals of the Global South, never replace them.