Posts categorized Aid Effectiveness & Management

Page 5
Promoting the use of development data in Honduras and Timor-Leste

As in Senegal, last year Development Gateway – in partnership with the AidData Center for Development Policy – interviewed leaders from the government, development partners, civil society, and academia in Honduras and Timor-Leste. Across both countries, we identified two common barriers keeping the supply of development data from addressing the demand of information for decision-making:

April 7, 2017
Aid Effectiveness & Management, Open Data
Making Development Data Fit for Purpose in Senegal // Rendre les données sur le développement adaptées aux besoins nationaux au Sénégal

Last year, Development Gateway – with our partners at the AidData Center for Development Policy – interviewed nearly fifty leaders from the government, development partner, and civil society communities of Senegal. Our goal was to uncover how (and whether) data from Senegal’s Aid Management Platform (AMP) was used in development-related decisions; identify barriers to data

March 31, 2017
Aid Effectiveness & Management, En Français, Open Data
Report Launch: Avoiding Data Graveyards

Every day, governments, development partners, and civil society leaders make a multitude of decisions about how to allocate, monitor, and evaluate development assistance. But do these decisions rely on data – and, if so, how? Last year, Development Gateway – with our partners at the AidData Center for Development Policy – undertook three country studies

March 21, 2017
Aid Effectiveness & Management, News/Events
Making the publish once dream a reality

This week, the International Aid Transparency Initiative Technical Advisory Group (IATI TAG) is gathering in Tanzania to discuss how we can take the initiative to the next level....

March 6, 2017
Aid Effectiveness & Management, Open Data
Strengthening Public Financial Management in Uganda: Connecting DMFAS and AMP

Earlier this year, we successfully linked the Uganda Aid Management Platform (UAMP) and the country’s Debt Management and Financial Analysis System (DMFAS).

February 23, 2017 Aid Management Program
Aid Effectiveness & Management, Tech Stack
What will it take for IATI to bear fruit?

The International Aid Transparency Initiative (IATI) has rallied over 500 organizations to publish data on over 600,000 development activities in a machine readable, standard format. Yet with the amount...

February 13, 2017
Aid Effectiveness & Management, Open Data
Country-led Innovations in Aid Management

Over the past decade, DG has worked with 25 country partners to implement the Aid Management Program, a suite of technology (AMP) and and process solutions to support data management and aid effectiveness....

January 31, 2017
Aid Effectiveness & Management, Innovation
Mobilizing for the Data Revolution

Mobilizing data to meet the goals of the “Data Revolution” will require a combination of technological innovation, skills training, and lasting partnerships. This holistic approach defines much of Development Gateway’s programming...

January 24, 2017
Aid Effectiveness & Management
USAID and PEOTUS: What Comes Next?

This Friday, DC will shut down for its quadrennial pomp, circumstance, and presidential transition. While we have seen a flurry of activity on the nomination, vetting, and policy fronts, we know little about PEOTUS’s development philosophy...

January 17, 2017
Aid Effectiveness & Management, Open Data
Three Reasons Why 2017 will be a Big Year for Evidence-Based Development

Last week, the Governance Data Alliance launched a new report (led by our friends at AidData) on the use of governance data, drawing on 500+ survey respondents from development policy actors in 126 countries (in government, development agencies, and civil society)...

December 20, 2016
Aid Effectiveness & Management, Results Data