Opendata for Africa
Great free open data portal just launched by the African Development Bank. Covers over 50 nations providing recent data. This include millennium development goals and socio-economic data on fragile states from the African development bank. Also accessible are country files.
Open UNDP
http://open.undp.org/ New open data website from the United Nations Development Programme. Get official data on over 6,000 development projects in 177 countries worldwide. It includes data on individual projects and about aid flows. You can download data in IATI XML, CSV, and JSON formats.
MyWorld Survey
A major global survey for citizens launched by the United Nations and partners. It asks respondents to prioritise six out of sixteen possible issues in order to gather data about values to inform future global development plans. The survey will be running until 2015. The blog http://blog.myworld2015.org/ will be providing updates on the purpose and […]
Aid Worker Security database
https://aidworkersecurity.org/ Produced by the Humanitarian Outcomes, a team of specialist consultants, this database provides statistics on violence against aid workers. Reports are from 1997 onwards. Topics covered include kidnapping, injury and murder of aid workers. Categories covered are NGOs, the International Movement of the Red Cross/Red Crescent, donor agencies and the UN agencies belonging to […]
New interactive guide to humanitarian financing
http://www.globalhumanitarianassistance.org/data-guides/humanitarian-aid-network Based on the Global Humanitarian Assistance reports http://www.globalhumanitarianassistance.org/reports produced every year by the Development Initiatives think tank. It aims to map map out how players interconnect and how the information, financing and other resources flow through both the formal and informal system.
Ipso Mori state of the nation report 2013
Ipso Mori state of the nation report 2013 examined public attitudes towards the economy and indicated a growing optimism in relation to last year. Ipsos MORI carried out 2,515 interviews online with British adults aged 16-75. Fieldwork took place between 23-27 November 2012. http://www.ipsos-mori.com/researchpublications/researcharchive/3111/State-of-the-Nation-2013.aspx Other topics include brutishness & national identity. For older materials on […]
Data.gov.in
A new initiative to provide free open access to statistical data from the Indian government. It currently has only 19 datasets, but these include recent GDP and consumer price indexes, and more will be added as data controllers are appointed. Materials will include state level and urban/rural data. Datasets are available to download in Excel. More […]
The Right to be Heard Framework: A learning companion
An online guide from Oxfam intended for development workers. The right to be heard framework aims to help poor people be heard by politicians. It includes case studies from civil society on how to devise and analyse programmes and gain support. http://policy-practice.oxfam.org.uk/publications/the-right-to-be-heard-framework-a-learning-companion-254793
ICAI – Independent commission for aid impact
The independent body responsible for the scrutiny of UK aid. A useful starting point for considering effectiveness. Reports from 2011 onwards are online. http://icai.independent.gov.uk/publications/ Other useful analyses of UK aid: House of Commons international development committee – reports and hearings online. Eldis provides a free searchable database of abstracts and full text publications covering all aspects […]
Learning Curve- how do education systems rank?
http://thelearningcurve.pearson.com/ New resource from Pearson and the Economist Intelligence Unit. See country profiles on expenditure and outcomes and Case studies on improvements. UNESCO education section has news about education systems worldwide. This includes: education monitoring statistics Global education digest 2012 Education for all monitoring reports. The latter monitors progress against a number of agreed targets. There is […]
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