Resources
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Global Humanitarian Assistance Report 2023
The Global Humanitarian Assistance Report 2023 assesses the international financing response to crisis. Development Initiatives finds that more needs went unmet in 2022 than ever before.
Indirect costs for local and national partners: UN agencies and INGOs policy and practice mapping
These tables summarise the current policies and practices of several UN agencies, international non-governmental organisations (INGOs) and Red Cross Red Crescent organisations around the provision of overheads or indirect costs for local and national partners.
LNOB assessment in Nepal: Data landscaping in Simta municipality
This report, co-produced with BASE, draws on DI's data landscaping work in Simta, Nepal. It explains how to improve the data ecosystem to leave no one behind.
LNOB assessment in Nepal: Data landscaping in Tulsipur municipality
This report, co-produced with BASE, draws on DI's data landscaping work in Tulsipur, Nepal. It explains how to improve the data ecosystem to leave no one behind.
Trends in traditional and non-traditional aid flows to Kenya, Uganda and Ethiopia
Aid is critical to bridging investment gaps in Kenya, Ethiopia and Uganda. In this synthesis paper, we take a closer look at the financing landscape over the past decade.
Still too important to fail: Addressing the humanitarian financing gap in an era of escalating climate impacts
The humanitarian funding gap continues to widen as the impacts of climate change exacerbate humanitarian need. This Oxfam discussion paper, with contributions from DI, sets out the need for renewed reform of humanitarian finance and the wider aid system.
Improving gender data to leave no one behind
Better gender data can reduce poverty and inequality. This briefing takes a solution-focused approach to the urgent challenge of closing the gender data gap.
Inequality: Global trends
This factsheet presents and interprets recent trends in levels of inequality globally using a number of different datasets.
Is the SDG monitoring framework broken?
As the 2023 World Data Forum gathers in Hangzhou, DI discusses challenges within the existing SDG monitoring system and proposes constructive reform.