CASA NEXUS Insights https://casanexus.net/insights/ Short analytical notes from CASA NEXUS evaluations and policy research. en-gb CASA NEXUS LIMITED Sixty years, one instrument, and a yardstick that does not move https://casanexus.net/insights/sixty-years-one-instrument/ https://casanexus.net/insights/sixty-years-one-instrument/ Tue, 28 Jul 2026 09:00:00 GMT Methods Four administrations, four volumes, and the same scoring instrument applied to each. The discipline is not in the scores. It is in refusing to adjust the instrument between them. Performance and confidence are not the same finding https://casanexus.net/insights/performance-and-confidence-are-not-the-same-finding/ https://casanexus.net/insights/performance-and-confidence-are-not-the-same-finding/ Mon, 15 Jun 2026 09:00:00 GMT Methods An evaluation that reports one number is hiding the more useful one. How strongly a finding can be proven is a separate question from how well a programme performed. The Finance Bill was never the fiscal system https://casanexus.net/insights/the-finance-bill-was-never-the-fiscal-system/ https://casanexus.net/insights/the-finance-bill-was-never-the-fiscal-system/ Sun, 31 May 2026 09:00:00 GMT Economy Public debate is over-concentrated on one instrument when three should be in view. By the time the Bill is published, the decisions that matter have already been taken. A Bronze fund cannot build a Gold economy https://casanexus.net/insights/a-bronze-fund-cannot-build-a-gold-economy/ https://casanexus.net/insights/a-bronze-fund-cannot-build-a-gold-economy/ Mon, 09 Mar 2026 09:00:00 GMT Policy Kenya's National Infrastructure Fund is credible and its policy logic is sound. It also scored 53 out of 100, and the gap between those two statements is the whole argument. Save lives or shape out: a structural failure, not a funding gap https://casanexus.net/insights/save-lives-or-shape-out/ https://casanexus.net/insights/save-lives-or-shape-out/ Wed, 12 Nov 2025 09:00:00 GMT Humanitarian The international humanitarian system is being described as underfunded. The more accurate description is that its operating model has stopped matching the conditions it works in. Activity that looks like enterprise, and does not compound https://casanexus.net/insights/activity-that-looks-like-enterprise/ https://casanexus.net/insights/activity-that-looks-like-enterprise/ Thu, 28 Aug 2025 09:00:00 GMT Economy Kenya's Gen-Z cohort is the most digitally native generation in the country's history. The question is whether the enterprise ethic it has adopted builds productive capacity or substitutes for it.