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Scraping By: What It Takes To Find and Use Donor Results Data
A key component of DG’s Results Data Initiative (RDI) is finding innovative ways to compare results data across donors...
Development Gateway launches the Open Aid Geocoder
Development Gateway is proud to announce the launch of the Open Aid Geocoder, a new open-source geocoding tool developed...
Evaluating Donor-Level Results Measurement Systems
Donors have established a variety of systems for collecting and aggregating results information for aid-funded programs to assess whether...
Results Indicators: Costs vs. Benefits?
We had a fascinating conversation a few weeks ago with a medical doctor who runs an HIV clinic in Tanzania. He offered...
Call for Participation: Initiative for Open Ag Funding
Development Gateway is proud to be a part of the new Initiative for Open Ag Funding, which seeks to establish...
EITI Data Portal Demo and Feedback at the EITI Global Conference
This week at the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI) Global Conference in Lima...
What do aid donors really accomplish? A story of HIV trainings in Ghana
How many people – health workers, citizens, and government staff – have been trained in HIV prevention and treatment in Ghana in the past 10 years?
RDI: Takeaways from First Sri Lanka Country Visit
Members of the Results Data Initiative team kicked off our country study in Sri Lanka in December....
Are Government and Development Partner M&E Systems Effectively Aligned and Harmonized?
Alignment and harmonization are specified in the 2005 Paris Declaration as...
The Art of Data Science
The use of data science techniques like data mining, machine learning, and data visualization has enabled...