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Monitoring the SDGs: getting the data to talk
How do the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and Sustainable Development Goals differ? Where are the gaps, overlaps and clashes between them?
Does DFID’s new fragile states list point towards a shift in funding allocation?
Last week, the UK’s Department for International Development (DFID) published a new Fragile States and Regions List to guide its approach in allocating res
Joining up standards: so what?
Can joining up data standards help add a useful perspective to our understanding of the real world?
The Open Data Charter: A breakthrough for joined-up data standards
The international Open Data Charter launched in New York last month is the first globally inclusive and comprehensive manifesto of its type.
Will a 'grand bargain' solve the humanitarian funding crisis?
This article was originally written for the Guardian Development Professionals Network as an opinion-piece looking at the High Level Panel on Humanitarian
The challenges facing national institutions in leading their poverty eradications agendas
In July of last year there was universal agreement under the Addis Ababa Action Agenda on the need for national institutions to be at the heart of, and hav
UN-coordinated appeals 2016 – another rise, another anticipated shortfall?
Last week, the UN launched the annual global appeal for humanitarian funding – the Global Humanitarian Overview. And once again, now for the fourth year ru
Aid for helping countries protect themselves against climate change is not targeted at the most vulnerable countries
Size of bubbles represents volume of adaptation-related ODA commitments in 2013, US$ millions. Vulnerability to climate change is defined as a country’s ex
Improving African national statistical systems will change lives
Better data for better lives Data should be the basis for decision making. Better data relates to better lives through better policies, programmes, and bet