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  • Blog Post
  • 8 March 2023

Why good data is key to unlocking gender equality

Fionna Smyth, DI’s Director of Growth and External Relations, shares her experiences of how data-driven solutions can support progress towards gender equality.

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Featured work

Report
13 April 2022

Funding for gender-relevant humanitarian response

DI examines the impact of Covid-19 on international funding for gender-related humanitarian programming, finding that global efforts to support gender equality and support women and girls in humanitarian crises are falling short.

Podcast
22 August 2022

Gender inequality: Good with data, episode 4

In this bonus episode we explore gender inequality and the data and analysis needed to ensure that no women and girls are left behind.

Report
8 March 2023

Why Wait? How the Humanitarian System Can Better Fund Women-Led and Women’s Rights Organisations

This report from IRC, produced with support from DI, looks at the quality and quantity of funding to women’s rights and women-led organisations responding to gender based violence in emergencies in three country contexts: Afghanistan, Democratic Republic of the Congo and Ukraine.

Factsheet
6 February 2023

Aid in 2021: Key facts about official development assistance

Our factsheet highlights key analysis of global aid reported in 2021. It includes the latest DAC data on providers, recipients, sectors and climate targeting.

Blog
16 February 2023

Counting excess vaccine donations as ODA inflated aid in 2021: Here's why they still shouldn't count

DI's Euan Ritchie explains how donors counted vaccines as ODA in 2021, and why the current OECD DAC rules on counting vaccines should change to stop inflating aid

Written by Euan Ritchie

Senior Development Finance Policy Advisor

Blog
13 December 2022

Should lending special drawing rights (SDRs) count as aid?

Rechanneling special drawing rights to low- and middle-income countries is an elegant solution to address global problems. Using them as an excuse to cut aid elsewhere is self-defeating.

Written by Euan Ritchie

Senior Development Finance Policy Advisor

Report
17 November 2022

Overhead cost allocation in the humanitarian sector

Development Initiatives, in partnership with UNICEF and Oxfam, conducted this research on overhead allocation in the humanitarian sector on behalf of the IASC Results Group 5. This work informed the development of guidance which has now been endorsed and published by the IASC.

Blog
15 December 2022

Tracking humanitarian funding to local actors: what we’ve learnt

In this blog, we explore the latest data and practices on tracking humanitarian funding to local actors, including the challenges around understanding whether 'localisation' of funding is happening and how to overcome them.

Written by

Fran Girling-Morris, Suzanna Nelson-Pollard, Carina Chicet

Report
22 November 2022

Funding to local actors: evidence from the Syrian refugee response in Türkiye

Türkiye hosts almost 4 million Syrian refugees. In this report, DI and TMK seek to fill the gap in data on funding flows to the local and national actors critical to the response.