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The Development Gateway: An IREX Venture blog is where DGers share specific learnings, offer thought-provoking insights, and pose challenging questions for the sustainable development community derived from our work.
Our blog has a deep archive going back to 2005. Each post is a snapshot into our work, priorities, and values.
From Resources to Results: Announcing New Directions for the Results Data Initiative
A key component of the Results Data Initiative (RDI) was the development of the Results Data Scorecard...
Detecting Corruption Risk through Open Contracting
At this month’s Open Government Partnership (OGP) Global Summit in Paris, many government and civil society participants will be talking about open contracting. Dozens of countries -- from Nigeria and Paraguay, to France, our hosts -- are committing to implement the principles of open contracting...
From Tech4Dev to Tech4Use
This post is excerpted from Development Gateway’s newsletter...
Post-Habitat III reflections: An ever growing toolbox?
Last month, nearly 50,000 people convened in Quito, Ecuador to discuss the importance of cities as drivers of development worldwide. While Habitat III -- the United Nations Conference on Housing and Sustainable Urban Development -- showcased many success stories, the take-home message was clear...
The Devel(opment) is in the Details: A Detailed Look into our Metrics
In Parts 1 and 2 of this series, we explored how the robust, timely, and valid collection of output data enhances transparency and collaboration, leads to better outcomes, and can even support claims of causality. In this last part of the series, we invite the reader to take a deeper dive with us into our scorecard methodology....
The Digital NGO: Turn Intent into Action • NetHope Global Summit 2016
This week, DG will be at NetHope’s 2016 Global Summit in Atlanta, where we look forward to discussing how data can be made usable and actionable to drive results. You can find us at the following sessions...
Making Gender Data Count: Can IATI Help?
CGD recently co-hosted a workshop with Data2X, the Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC), and Development Gateway on the potential of the International Aid Transparency Initiative (IATI) to comprehensively track aid flows and outcomes....
How to Build an Information Management System (one hurdle at a time)
The United Nation Development Group’s Information Management System (IMS) is one of the largest software tools DG has ever built. With users on 131 UN Country Teams, the IMS tracks progress toward core UN goals on and coherence in 165 countries and territories....
Surviving a Zombie Apocalypse in Five Easy Steps
DG has been spearheading a lot of work around disaster resilience in cities around the world. Specifically, we’ve been interested in how governments and citizens can plan against the worst-case scenarios, to minimize disruptive impacts and to help communities bounce back quicker and better....
Civil society needs to get involved in SDG monitoring: Business as usual is not an option
Monitoring is a key element of the 2030 Agenda -- and lies at the heart of the data revolution. Debates around the data revolution and SDG monitoring often focus on the need for more and better data, and for capacity building in developing countries. This focus is justified given the large gaps in data availability and data use....