As a development community, we invest a great deal in data-related activities – particularly for monitoring and results reporting. But are the ways in which we gather, share, and use this information as efficient and impactful as they must be, to achieve the 2030 Agenda?...

We are proud to debut our Results Data Initiative: Findings from Sri Lanka report....

We are proud to debut our Results Data Initiative: Findings from Ghana summary report...

Over the past year, our Results Data Initiative (RDI) has explored in depth two...

We had a fascinating conversation a few weeks ago with a medical doctor who runs an HIV clinic in Tanzania. He offered...

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....

The Sustainable Development Goals are all-but-adopted, the Data Revolution is in full swing...

This week, delegates from around the world are meeting in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, for the third Financing for Development conference. One key outcome for this conference...

“If your mother gives you $10 to go to the store to buy a bottle of milk, you have to show her, 'Here is the milk and here is the change.' Likewise, we are obliged to show taxpayers exactly what we are doing with their money.”- María Margarita “La Paca” Zuleta, Director of Colombia Compra Eficiente

Knowing where aid projects are located is important for making smart allocation and evaluation decision - but to know what is actually happening on the ground, you can’t stop there.Typically, project implementers are the only ones with knowledge of detailed project information. While contracts also offer a wealth of data points - about who is implementing which activities where, and with how much money - most contracts are either not publicly available, or not easily downloadable.

On World Development Information Day, DG reports on the future of the International Aid Transparency Initiative, a global campaign that encourages donors and governments to make aid information open and accessible.

'A few days ago, the Devex Impact blog featured, M&E 2.0: Using big data to kill white elephants, by Tim Docking about how development monitoring and evaluation practices need to accelerate to keep pace with cutting-edge methods for collecting, analyzing, and using data to do good. He wrote:'