Welcome to EqualKnow
At EqualKnow, we believe that data isn't just numbers, it holds insights to tomorrow's decisions and outcomes. Our innovative data analytics tools empower you to self-analyze data, generate results, and confidently engage in agenda-setting processes that lead to sustainable and equitable outcomes and align with your goals. Our mission is to make it appealing and easier for all stakeholders to make data-informed decisions.
DST4AFIN: Decision Support Tool for Prioritizing AgriFood Investments
Customizable App
Our flagship, DST4AFIN, is an innovative, spreadsheet App designed to help you answer two broad questions: (1) What is the cost-effective allocation of a budget across various investments to achieve specified targets for different outcomes such as growth, food security, nutrition, or emissions? (2) How will various shocks affect the investment allocations? DST4AFIN can be customized for diverse decision-making contexts (private or public sector) and levels (firm, sectoral, national, regional, global).
Realisitc Optimization Model
DST4AFIN's underlying optimization model is built on investment–outcome parameters that are estimated from historical data using machine-learning regularized regression methods. By preventing overfitting of the model, the approach results in a high predictive accuracy of the estimators. The model is also built within the broader economic system and includes investments and outcomes in all sectors to provide realistic predictions of the impacts and tradeoffs of the budget allocation across the investments.
User-Friendly Interface
DST4AFIN’s user-friendly interface allows you to create and simulate scenarios of your choice. This is achieved by selecting the baseline or reference year as well as the desired outcomes and associated targets, setting the total budget to allocate across the investments, and considering other factors such as share of the budget to allocate to a specific activity, unit cost and weights of the investments, and the sources and magnitudes of shocks.
Easy-to-Interpret Results
At the click of a button, the App executes and results of the cost-effective allocation of the budget across the investments are displayed in local currency units and as a percentage in the total budget. Because investments affect all outcomes in the broader economic system, the impact of the budget allocation on all the outcomes in the model is also displayed as percentage change from their respective baseline values. All the results are displayed in numeric values and charts.
About EqualKnow
We are a data analytics firm that provides tools for making cost-effective investment and policy choices. The tools can help stakeholders make informed decisions, whether for policy formulation, financing, planning, research, or advocacy. We partner with clients to customize tools for them according to their decision variables and outcomes of interest and the available raw historical data.
Explore DST4AFIN
Try out our App customized for public expenditure allocation decision in Ghana. Investments are government spending on agriculture and other sectors (defense, transport and communications, education, health, social protection, etc.). There are 31 outcome indicators on agrifood and other sectors covering production, growth, income, employment, trade, nutrition, and human and environmental health. Shocks include ODA flows and broader fiscal, monetary, political, biophysical, natural, and environmental factors.
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