About us

uBoraBora is delivered by Brink and Laterite, with seed funding from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation for our first call for proposals. 

Brink is a Behavioural Innovation firm who have designed and managed funds effectively and at pace across SSA. We have team members across East and Southern Africa and a broad education portfolio including EdTech Hub, Elimu Soko, Lego Foundation and more. We are…

  • Creative thinkers and problem solvers who love working with people to come up with new ideas that take human behavior into account

  • Psychologists and behavioral science nerds who love to think about how people tick when working in complexity

  • Lean and agile, running experiments, doing qualitative and comparative assessments of ideas and quickly getting signals of ‘what works’

  • Able to work alongside teams and organizations as they rethink how they do their work, so that they can make a bigger impact.

Laterite is a firm rooted in Africa specialized in research for social impact. We have offices across Sub-Saharan Africa and make use of rigorous, context-relevant evidence to inform foundational learning programs at scale. We have team members across Ethiopia, Kenya, Rwanda, Uganda, Tanzania and Sierra Leone. We are:

  • Technical experts in implementation research within foundational learning, harnessing proven research methods to support continuous improvement

  • Innovative in our approach, using cutting edge techniques to predict trends in school systems

  • Leveraging technology to accelerate the process of doing implementation research.

Guided by the belief that every life has equal value, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation works to help all people lead healthy, productive lives. The foundation is focused on the areas of greatest need, on the ways in which it can do the most good - from poverty to health, to education. Its areas of focus offer the opportunity to dramatically improve the quality of life for billions of people. It builds partnerships that bring together resources, expertise, and vision. Its work is focused in developing countries, and the United States. Based in Seattle, Washington, the foundation is led by CEO Mark Suzman, under the direction of Bill Gates, Melinda French Gates as co-chairs, complemented by a board of trustees, which in 2022 was expanded to include the CEO and five independent experts.