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Gender equality funding data is a mess. How do we fix it?

By Alex Farley and Guest | Mar 11, 2024 | Blog

Many organisations have attempted to track funding for gender equality in recent years. We’ve all reached the same conclusion: the data is a mess. If we really want progress on gender equality, We need to move from measuring good intentions to measuring outcomes. We need a new approach. In this blog Alex Farley, Fionna Smyth, Mareen Buschmann, Hellen Malinga Apila propose a multi-stakeholder convening to review, discuss, and resolve the data issues.

Funding the localization agenda: USAID’s progress

By Gary Forster, Sally Paxton and Guest | Dec 5, 2023 | Blog

Daryl Grisgraber (Oxfam America)joins Gary Forster and Sally Paxton to highlight new Oxfam America research which uses Publish What You Fund’s methodology to track the US Agency for International Development’s localization goal.

Exploring IATI data wells with publisher owned portals

By Elma Jenkins and Guest | Sep 6, 2023 | Blog

The second blog in our series exploring aid data tools discusses portals produced by countries or institutions to provide access to their aid and development data. Elma Jenkins and Rolf Kleef review the differing levels of complexity – from high-level overviews to detailed data from multiple organisations and multiple data sources. They consider what features make for an accessible data portal, and provide a comprehensive list of the portals currently available.

The IATI data well

By Elma Jenkins and Guest | Apr 26, 2023 | Blog

What aid and development data is available and where can it be found? In this post Elma Jenkins, Publish What You Fund, and Rolf Kleef, data/IT consultant, introduce three user-friendly tools that can be used to access International Aid Transparency Initiative (IATI) data – D-portal, the Datastore and Country Development Finance Data – and describe their key features. This is the first in a blog series examining IATI data access tools.

Metrics matter: achieving USAID’s 25% funding target to local actors

By Sally Paxton, George Ingram and Guest | Feb 28, 2023 | Blog

Almost as soon as USAID announced its target that 25% of its funding would go to local partners, the debate began over the definition of what counts as “local” and how to measure it. According to Publish What You Fund’s groundbreaking new research, the choice of methodology could determine whether more than $1.4 billion of additional funding is channeled to local actors each year.

Building the Gavi glasshouse

By Guest | Jul 5, 2022 | Case studies

Pascal Barollier shares Gavi’s aid transparency journey, how the use of aid data has evolved, and how they incorporated data for the fast-moving COVAX initiative into their systems.

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