Stories, ideas, and updates from DGers around the world
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.
Evaluating Government Monitoring & Evaluation Systems of Aid-Recipient Countries
Since 2005, when major donors endorsed the Paris Declaration on Aid Effectiveness...
New Partnership with EITI Secretariat
Development Gateway is proud to announce a new partnership with the EITI Secretariat to create a flagship EITI Data Portal....
Crosswalking data relationships for analysis
In our last post we discussed the crosswalk portion of the Results Data Initiative, a project with the goal to make results data more useful and relatable across...
GIS: Myths, Reality, and the New Tools of Today
There are a lot of misconceptions about using geographical information systems (GIS) in development: that it’s a niche tool, or one that requires a large budget...
Open Contracting in Vietnam
Development Gateway is proud to announce a new program with the Government of Vietnam, supported by the World Bank Open Contracting team to help increase the transparency...
What is the Aid Management Program?
In many countries around the world, overseas development assistance (foreign aid) serves as a significant funding source for public programs. However, governments...
How to Find, Analyze, and Apply Aid Data
The global community, as represented at the Open Government Partnership (OGP) Summit and beyond, has made strides in producing a variety of open data, including open aid data....
Meet you at #OGP15
This week, DG is participating in the Open Government Partnership’s 2015 Global Summit in Mexico City....
Steps towards crosswalking development data
In today’s development sphere, donors and local governments gather increasingly large amounts of data. Open data initiatives...
RDI Consultation Readout
On September 23, Development Gateway hosted a consultation meeting for the Results Data Initiative (RDI)....