Documentation, tutorials and answers
How to use the EDIS platform, how the Academy’s courses are organised and when they run, what the platform has been used for, and the questions institutions ask first.
Courses, dates and downloads
Fourteen courses, one for each school of the Academy, each run in person in Nairobi and in Accra.
Course catalogue
Every course with its modules, each module’s summary, outcomes and outline, the day-by-day plan and the certificate.
Open the catalogue →Training calendar
All 28 cohorts on one grid, with enrolment deadlines, fees, holidays and certification boards.
See the calendar →Calendar feed
Every cohort as a calendar file, for faculty and participants to add to Outlook, Google or Apple calendars.
Download .ics →Cohort register
The full cohort list as a spreadsheet, for a registration system, an LMS or a training unit’s own planning.
Download .csv →How to use EDIS
Model documentation
Technical reports for the model services behind EDIS — how each model is built, what it runs on and what it finds — and the sector status reports produced from them. All are free to download.
FINEX: A Three-Country Application — Uganda, South Africa and Kenya
The IMF’s semi-structural model of internal and external balance, applied to three economies: structure, estimation by Simulated Method of Moments on annual data for 2001–2024, forecasts and policy simulation.
148 pages · PDF, 15.5 MB
CDCGE: Specification and Simulation Results
The full specification of the Country-Disaggregated Computable General Equilibrium model — structure, equations, calibration and human-development module — and the simulation study for Uganda to 2040, with distributional and spatial analysis.
209 pages · PDF, 9.6 MB
Sector status reports
Country reports produced from the EDIS sector models, each setting out the sector’s structure, data, modelled scenarios, investment requirements and policy options. These are large documents; each downloads as a single PDF.
Uganda Education Sector Report 2026
The education sector modelled end to end: enrolment and cohort projections, teacher and facility requirements, unit costs, financing scenarios and the investment case to 2040.
329 pages · PDF, 14.2 MB
Uganda Health Sector Report 2026
Health service coverage, workforce and facility needs, programme budgets, the investment case and the fiscal and distributional consequences of the scenarios modelled.
305 pages · PDF, 17.6 MB
Uganda Energy Status Report 2026
Generation, transmission and access: demand projections, least-cost expansion, the investment requirement and the spatial pattern of electrification.
259 pages · PDF, 20.4 MB
Uganda Transport Status Report 2026
The transport network and its condition, accessibility and connectivity analysis, prioritised investment and the economic effects of the modelled programmes.
328 pages · PDF, 22.2 MB
Model explorer
Purpose, method, inputs, outputs, equations overview, data sources, scenario options and version history for each model service.
Open the model explorer →Agent and question registry
Every registered agent and question, with the models called, the data required, the outputs produced and the access level needed.
Open the registry →API reference
Endpoint families, authentication, quotas, run submission and result retrieval. Issued with the key and versioned with the platform.
API overview →Getting started
Asking a first question, reading a response, understanding provenance, and knowing when a result should not be used.
Start with the demonstration →Building a scenario
Choosing shocks, setting a horizon, running, comparing against baseline and saving into a project.
Scenario builder →Reports
The report formats EDIS generates from a run, what each one carries, and how confidence and limitations are stated.
Report formats →What a run produces
Every EDIS run ends in a document, not a loose table. These are the formats a deployment produces, each carrying the models, the data, the scenario and a run ID.
Policy brief
The executive answer, the options, the costs and the risks, written for a minister or a permanent secretary.
Report formats →Technical report
Specification, assumptions, model versions, full results and the provenance record behind every figure.
Report formats →Investment appraisal
Project-level appraisal and ranking on a common basis, with the fiscal and spatial consequences of the pipeline.
Appraisal models →What the platform has been used for
Illustrative engagements of the kind EDIS is designed to support.
Allocating a development envelope
A finance ministry compares an optimised allocation against a pro-rata split across six sectors, with GDP, employment, poverty and regional distribution for each.
See the worked run →Costing a coverage target
A health ministry establishes what a twenty per cent budget increase buys in facilities, workforce and coverage, and the recurrent cost it creates.
See the worked run →Sizing an agricultural programme
A planning authority tests an additional trillion dollars of agricultural investment for output, income, food prices, exports and poverty.
See the worked run →Questions institutions ask first
Does EDIS replace our existing systems?
No. It reads from them and makes their information usable together. Custody of the data stays with the institution that holds it.
Where do the numbers come from?
From EDIS model services, run against registered datasets. Every figure carries the model, the version, the data source, the scenario and a run ID.
Does an AI produce the estimates?
No. The AI layer routes, orchestrates, explains and drafts. It never produces a numerical policy estimate, and the separation is enforced in the architecture.
What happens when a model fails?
EDIS reports the failure with its diagnostics. It does not substitute an extrapolation, a previous run or a language-model guess.
Is our data visible to other organisations?
No. Organisation separation is enforced in the data layer, private workspaces carry audit trails, and cross-organisation isolation is tested.
Which countries are supported?
Country is a first-class dimension throughout. Utopia is the demonstration instance; the architecture covers 52 African economies as data and licences allow.
Where are Academy courses taught?
Every course is taught twice in person: once at the EDIS regional hub in Nairobi and once at the hub in Accra.
What does it cost?
Platform licences are agreed per institution and per country. Academy tuition is US$200 a contact day, in person at either hub.