From Standardization to Specificity: Localizing Multi-Country Research
Multi-country research must balance consistency with local realities. While standardization allows reliable comparisons and generalizable insights, local context shapes outcomes. This blog explores how programs can strike that balance effectively.
Defining Decision-Making: Connecting the Dots Between Data and Impact
Strong, data-driven decision-making is critical for transforming the livestock sector and achieving national goals for food security and economic growth. However, we often talk about what is needed to enable strong decisions and the potential outcomes of data-driven decision-making without connecting the dots. What decisions are we actually talking about, between the data on one end and the impact on the other? What does data-driven decision-making actually entail?
Harnessing the Power of Data: Tackling Tobacco Industry Influence in Africa
Reliable, accessible data is essential for effective tobacco control, enabling policymakers to implement stronger, evidence-based responses to evolving industry tactics and public health challenges. This blog explores how Tobacco Industry strategies hinder effective Tobacco control in Africa, and highlights how stakeholders are harnessing TCDI Data to counter industry interference.
The Future of Food Systems: Spotlight on Ethiopia
When we discuss food systems, we are not just talking about farms; we are referring to the entire food supply chain. We are talking about how people eat, live, and navigate an increasingly volatile climate.
This blog post analyzes Ethiopia’s national food systems strategy as an example of where UNFSS can go next in strengthening food security globally.
Beyond Kigali: Where Does Africa Go from Here with AI?
As the AI momentum builds, Development Gateway is asking different questions: where the data comes from, how reliable it is, how legacy systems will supply usable data, and whether governments have the capacity to govern and trust the AI tools they’re being urged to adopt.
Why Africa Will Define the Next Decade of Digital Public Infrastructure
As the global conversation shifts from frameworks to delivery, this blog reflects on why Africa will define the next decade of Digital Public Infrastructure (DPI), drawing on insights from the Global DPI Summit and years of on-the-ground experience.
Building Useful & Usable AI: A New Tool to Curb Procurement Corruption
DG, together with Accountability Lab, have launched a new AI-powered contract summary and analysis tool through the HackCorruption program, designed to help journalists, civil society, and the private sector detect red flags in procurement processes.
Accelerating Institutions: How DG’s 25 Years Create Unique Value for AI
As AI reshapes the digital landscape, we share in this blog DG’s approach to helping institutions adopt it effectively using clear use cases, strong data foundations, and decades of experience to cut through hype and prioritize ethical, sustainable impact.
Reflecting on 3 Years of Digital Advisory Support for Agricultural Transformation
As the DAS program concludes, this blog reflects on its impact in advancing digital transformation in agriculture, highlighting lessons on capacity building, knowledge transfer, and sustaining resilient food systems.