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Elijah Kipchumba, PhD

Elijah Kipchumba, PhD

Research Fellow, WEE-Connect & WEE-DiFine initiatives

kipchumba.kipkech@bracu.ac.bd

Elijah Kipchumba, PhD, is a Research Fellow for the WEE-Connect and WEE-DiFine initiatives at BRAC Institute of Governance and Development (BIGD), BRAC University. 

Dr Elijah has eight years of experience in development research, having previously worked as a research associate at BRAC International and Save the Children International in the East African region. His research interests broadly relate to the economics of households, gender, and labour. His research features in refereed economic journals.

Dr Elijah completed his PhD in Economics at Trinity College Dublin. His doctoral research evaluated youth upskilling programs and interventions that promote the social and economic inclusion of persons with disabilities. He holds an MSc in Quantitative Economics from Makerere University and a BSc in Applied Statistics from Maseno University. 

Working Paper

Disability-Inclusive Livelihoods and Household Economic Well-Being: Experimental Evidence from Northern Uganda

Date: 2025

Author(s): Banks, Lena Morgon; Chen, Shanquan; Davey, Calum; Islam, Kiza Eliza; Kipchumba, Elijah; Kuper, Hannah; and Sulaiman, Munshi

Publisher: Trinity Economics Papers

Review/Synthesis Paper

Digital Financial Services and Women’s Economic Empowerment: Lessons From the WEE-DiFine Research Initiative

Date: 2025

Author(s): Kipchumba, Elijah

Publisher: BIGD

Journal Article

Disability-Inclusive Graduation Programme Intervention on Social Participation Among Ultra-Poor People with Disability in North Uganda: A Cluster Randomized Trial

Date: 2025

Author(s): Chen, Shanquan; Banks, Lena Morgon; Carew, Mark T.; Kipchumba, Elijah; Davey, Calum; Sulaiman, Munshi; Kuper, Hannah 

Publisher: BMC Medicine

Journal Article

Evaluation of a disability-inclusive ultra-poor graduation programme in Uganda: study protocol for a cluster-randomised controlled trial with process evaluation

Date: 2024

Author(s): Kipchumba, Elijah; Davey, Calum; Marks, Sarah; Mugeere, Anthony; Chen, Shanquan; Banks, Lena Morgon; Islam, Kazi Eliza; Shakespeare, Tom; Kuper, Hannah; Sulaiman, Munshi

Publisher: Springer

White Paper

Evidence of Digital Financial Services Impacting Women’s Economic Empowerment: What Explains the Impacts and What Is Left to Learn

Date: 2020

Author(s): Garz, Seth; Heath, Rachel; Kipchumba, Elijah; Sulaiman, Munshi

Topic(s): Digitization, Economic Development

Publisher: BIGD

Women's Economic Empowerment and Digital Connectivity (WEE-Connect)

WEE-Connect is a pioneering initiative addressing the persistent gender gap in digital connectivity in the Global South, aiming to bridge barriers for women, foster economic empowerment, and establish evidence-based strategies through inclusive research, best case practices, and the creation of a scholarly community focused on the intersection of digital connectivity and gender.

Women’s Economic Empowerment and Digital Finance (WEE-DiFine)

WEE-DiFine is a research initiative (2019–2024), which aims to generate a comprehensive body of evidence around the impact of digital finance (DiFine) on women’s economic empowerment (WEE) and the causal mechanisms between the two through funding rigorous research studies across South Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa.

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