Policy Publications

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Understanding Data Use
Understanding Data Use: Building M&E Systems that Empower Users

Understanding Data Use: Building M&E Systems that Empower Users, emphasizes how critical it is for decision-makers to consider users’ decision space – from the institutional all the way to technical levels – in achieving data uptake.

Policy, White Paper
International Aid Transparency Initiative (IATI) Implementation Reports
International Aid Transparency Initiative (IATI) Implementation Reports

In partnership with Development Initiatives (DI), DG supported UNICEF’s goal of helping their Country Offices use data published to the International Aid Transparency Initiative (IATI) for reporting to government Aid Information Management Systems (AIMS).

En Français, Final Report, Policy, Project
Results Data Initiative
Results Data Initiative Findings: Phase I

Governments, development partners, and implementers spend millions of dollars every year collecting data on results. How do we make these investments most effective? Studied how results data is collected, shared, and used in three countries: Ghana, Tanzania, and Sri Lanka, across the health and agriculture sectors.

Global Data Policy
Final Report, Policy, Project
Avoiding Data Graveyards
Development Data & Decision Making Reports

In 2016, with our partners at the AidData Center for Development Policy, DG undertook three country studies exploring how development data influence decision-making in Timor-Leste, Honduras, and Senegal. The "Avoiding Data Graveyards" report details the findings of those studies.

Global Data Policy
Policy, White Paper