CASE STUDY

Gender Equality Design Labs

Research, Public Health, Design

Ethnographic Research, Product Innovation

CASE STUDY

3 Countries

Nigeria, Kenya, Senegal

100+

Research Participants

1200+

Annotations per immersion

A standout feature is its flexible architecture that allows for seamless data updates and maintenance as our research progresses. Rather than being a static repository, the platform grows and adapts alongside our research - new findings can be easily incorporated, existing data can be refined, and insights can be updated to reflect our latest understanding. This ability to continuously update and maintain the database ensures that our analysis remains current and comprehensive.

Pragya Mishra

Creative Director

About the partner

Catapult Design is a non-profit product and service design firm that works with socially driven organizations to build forward-looking, accessible, and market-based solutions that empower low-income and underserved communities with reliable tools to improve their quality of life.

Goal of the study

To ensure health innovations in global majority countries are grounded in the lived realities, culture, values, and priorities of women and girls by engaging them early and consistently in decision-making. Through this pilot, Catapult Design, with design partners across Africa, facilitates Gender Equality Design Labs to test ideas and enable continued engagement with women.

Outcome of the study

Dots enables teams across countries to collaboratively collect and organize research data, generate insights, and share data access. It also allows stakeholders in the Gates Foundation’s Gender Equality Data & Insights (GE D&I) Division to explore insights, findings, and raw data in multiple formats, and identify opportunities for future innovations impacting women's and girls' health.

Features and Integrations

Features & Integrations

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Custom Templates for Data Upload

Configurable templates allow for custom forms for each research team to have their own structure to upload transcripts and media albeit with a unifying tag architecture

Custom Templates for Data Upload

Configurable templates allow for custom forms for each research team to have their own structure to upload transcripts and media albeit with a unifying tag architecture

Collaborative Annotation

Configured tag systems allow team members across geographies to collaborate on uploaded transcripts to complete annotation and highlight key quotes

Collaborative Annotation

Configured tag systems allow team members across geographies to collaborate on uploaded transcripts to complete annotation and highlight key quotes

Data Review System

Ensure data quality through a system for reviewing content by submitting for review, reviewer comments and review dashboards

Data Review System

Ensure data quality through a system for reviewing content by submitting for review, reviewer comments and review dashboards

Role Based Access

Allows the Catapult team to control access such that the data is secure from non-project users, and also to separate access between research teams as required

Role Based Access

Allows the Catapult team to control access such that the data is secure from non-project users, and also to separate access between research teams as required

Analysis Views & Collection Pages

Have been used to help guide a user through various levels of synthesized data, and to be able to explore all the annotations with a range of cross cutting filters

Analysis Views & Collection Pages

Have been used to help guide a user through various levels of synthesized data, and to be able to explore all the annotations with a range of cross cutting filters

AI Q&A

Supports users to query the dataset ensuring precise answers without hallucinations or external data interference, while keeping the data secure

Platform Intervention

Research Across Geographies

Research is managed across the three countries and teams supporting standardisation of the data through structuring even where the qualitative research is open ended and country specific

Research Across Geographies

Research is managed across the three countries and teams supporting standardisation of the data through structuring even where the qualitative research is open ended and country specific

Export to Miro

As teams across countries and regions collaborate on analysis of the data on Miro, annotated data is exported directly into Miro to fit seamlessly into the existing research process and tools

Export to Miro

As teams across countries and regions collaborate on analysis of the data on Miro, annotated data is exported directly into Miro to fit seamlessly into the existing research process and tools

Data Security

The platform runs on a custom domain, where only users who have been granted access can read the data. While a smaller set (research teams), has specific access to add, edit, and review data

Data Security

The platform runs on a custom domain, where only users who have been granted access can read the data. While a smaller set (research teams), has specific access to add, edit, and review data

Analysis Across Countries

A unified tag architecture with customisations as required per country allow for users to analyse the data either country by country, or across all geographies

Analysis Across Countries

A unified tag architecture with customisations as required per country allow for users to analyse the data either country by country, or across all geographies

Client Access & Views

Customised role based flow for clients to be able to access the analysed and raw data in a particular flow to enhance understanding of the outcomes of the research, even as new data and analysis is added in realtime

Current Status

The initial pilot immersion has been completed in Nigeria, and will now be replicated in Senegal and Kenya with talks to expand the project and integrate with ongoing efforts to better understand vulnerability and needs across populations.