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Factsheet
23 March 2017

A summary of Kenya’s budget 2017/18 from a pro-poor perspective

Kenya’s budget 2017/18 is an opportunity to address the country’s high levels of poverty and inequality and assess how far it helps poor populations.

Report
7 March 2017

Reaching the potential of IATI data

This report seeks to bring together the available evidence on existing use cases for IATI data, analyzing which barriers should be tackled to grow IATI use.

Report
16 February 2017

An introduction to IATI for humanitarian actors

This background paper introduces humanitarian actors to the International Aid Transparency Initiative (IATI) Standard, focusing on how and why IATI is used.

Discussion paper
15 February 2017

Approaches to measuring and monitoring South-South cooperation

This paper documents the ways in which South–South cooperation providers are responding to growing demands for more transparency.

Report
13 February 2017

Counting cash: Tracking humanitarian expenditure on cash-based programming

This report, commissioned by the Overseas Development Institute, includes data on the volume and nature of humanitarian cash-based programming in 2015.

Report
26 January 2017

Assessment of Kenya's preparedness to disasters caused by natural hazards: floods, drought and disease outbreak

Through key informant interviews, focus-group discussions, literature review and a financial analysis, this report evaluates Kenya's resilience.

Discussion paper
25 January 2017

Long-term investments in a short-term world: Arguments for sustainable data

This discussion paper makes the case for the acceptance of key issues that are paramount in the struggle for sustainable development data

Discussion paper
12 January 2017

Common cause, common language: harmonising key concepts in the Data Revolution

One of the great opportunities at the World Data Forum is the strengthening of relationships between official and 'non-official' data communities.

Report
5 January 2017

Final ODA data for 2015

This report presents Development Initiatives’ initial analysis of ODA, including comparison to preliminary ODA data, regional distribution of ODA and more.